The power of identity / Manuel Castells

Our World, our Lives
1 1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society 5 The Construction of Identity 6
God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity 12 Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism
13 God save me! American Christian fundamentalism 23 Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images?
30 Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv)
35 Nations without a state: Catalunya
45 Nations of the information age
54 Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society
56 Territorial Identities: The Local Community
63 Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age
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2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order
71 Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements
72 Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement
75 Who are the Zapatistas?
77 The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals
80 The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media
82 The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution
85 Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement
87 The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network
90 The Patriots' banners
95 Who are the Patriots?
98 The militia, the Patriots, and American society
99 The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo
100 Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo
101 Aum's beliefs and methodology
104 Aum and Japanese society
105 Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God
108 The goals and values of al-Qaeda
111 The evolving process of al-Qaeda's struggle 115 The mujahedeen and their support bases
119 The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden
124 From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks
128 Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda
135 9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement?
140 "No Globalization without Representation!": The Anti-globalization Movement
145 "El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido": the diversity of the anti-globalization movement
147 The values and goals of the movement against globalization
152 Networking as a political way of being
154 An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants
156 The movement in context: social change and institutional change
158 The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order
160 Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization 166

3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement
168 The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology
170 The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists' Challenge
179 Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media
186 Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier 190

4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age
192 The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family
196 Women at Work
215 Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement
234 American feminism: a discontinuous continuity
235 Is feminism global? 243 Feminism: an inducive polyphony
252 The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
261 Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei
266 Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco
271 Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family
279 Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism
280 The incredibly shrinking family
280 The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism
288 Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality
294 Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world
299 The End of Patriarchalism? 301
5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State?
303 Globalization and the State
304 The transnational core of national economies
305 A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy
307 Globalization and the welfare state
312 Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators
316 A lawless world?
321 The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism
323 Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states
328 Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state
332 The Identification of the State
337 The Return of the State
340 The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters
340 American unilateralism and the new geopolitics
344 The Iraq War and its aftermath
349 The consequences of American unilateralism
353 The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State
356 Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy
364 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy
367 Introduction: The Politics of Society
367 Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age
371 Politics and the media: the citizens' connection
371 Show politics and political marketing: the American model
375 Is European politics being "Americanized"?
381 Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru
386 Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal
391 The Crisis of Democracy
402 Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy?
414 Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society
419 Methodological