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Our World, our Lives <br/>1 1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society 5 The Construction of Identity 6<br/> God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity 12 Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism <br/>13 God save me! American Christian fundamentalism 23 Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images?<br/> 30 Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv) <br/>35 Nations without a state: Catalunya<br/> 45 Nations of the information age <br/>54 Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society<br/> 56 Territorial Identities: The Local Community <br/>63 Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age<br/> 68 <br/>2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order <br/>71 Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements<br/> 72 Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement<br/> 75 Who are the Zapatistas? <br/>77 The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals<br/> 80 The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media<br/> 82 The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution <br/>85 Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement <br/>87 The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network <br/>90 The Patriots' banners <br/>95 Who are the Patriots?<br/> 98 The militia, the Patriots, and American society <br/>99 The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo<br/> 100 Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo<br/> 101 Aum's beliefs and methodology <br/>104 Aum and Japanese society<br/> 105 Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God <br/>108 The goals and values of al-Qaeda <br/>111 The evolving process of al-Qaeda's struggle 115 The mujahedeen and their support bases<br/> 119 The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden <br/>124 From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks<br/> 128 Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda <br/>135 9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement?<br/> 140 "No Globalization without Representation!": The Anti-globalization Movement <br/>145 "El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido": the diversity of the anti-globalization movement <br/>147 The values and goals of the movement against globalization <br/>152 Networking as a political way of being <br/>154 An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants<br/> 156 The movement in context: social change and institutional change <br/>158 The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order <br/>160 Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization 166<br/><br/> 3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement <br/>168 The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology <br/>170 The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists' Challenge <br/>179 Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media <br/>186 Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier 190 <br/><br/>4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age <br/>192 The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family <br/>196 Women at Work<br/> 215 Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement<br/> 234 American feminism: a discontinuous continuity<br/> 235 Is feminism global? 243 Feminism: an inducive polyphony <br/>252 The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements <br/>261 Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei <br/>266 Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco<br/> 271 Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family<br/> 279 Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism<br/> 280 The incredibly shrinking family<br/> 280 The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism <br/>288 Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality <br/>294 Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world <br/>299 The End of Patriarchalism? 301 <br/>5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? <br/>303 Globalization and the State <br/>304 The transnational core of national economies <br/>305 A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy <br/>307 Globalization and the welfare state <br/>312 Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators <br/>316 A lawless world? <br/>321 The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism <br/>323 Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states <br/>328 Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state <br/>332 The Identification of the State <br/>337 The Return of the State <br/>340 The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters <br/>340 American unilateralism and the new geopolitics<br/> 344 The Iraq War and its aftermath <br/>349 The consequences of American unilateralism <br/>353 The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State <br/>356 Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy<br/> 364 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy <br/>367 Introduction: The Politics of Society <br/>367 Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age <br/>371 Politics and the media: the citizens' connection <br/>371 Show politics and political marketing: the American model<br/> 375 Is European politics being "Americanized"?<br/> 381 Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru<br/> 386 Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal <br/>391 The Crisis of Democracy<br/> 402 Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy?<br/> 414 Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society <br/>419 Methodological |
