The Power of Identity [The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II]

Castells, Manuel

ISBN 10: 1557868743 / ISBN 13: 9781557868749

Published by Blackwell Publishers, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Power of Identity [The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II]
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557868743
• ISBN 13: 9781557868749
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Film & Media Studies
  • Critical & Postmodern Theory/Culture Studies

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Synopsis

This is an account of the two great and conflicting trends now shaping the world: globalization and identity.

About the Author

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Planning and of Sociology, and Chair of the Center for Western European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was appointed in 1979. He also taught sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was director of the Institute of Sociology of New Technologies at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of Chile, Montreal, Campinas–Sao Paulo, Caracas, Mexico, Geneva, Copenhagen, Wisconsin–Madison, Boston, Southern California, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Amsterdam, Moscow, and Hitotsubashi. He is a member of Academia Europaea (Sociology). In 1995/96 he was appointed to the European Commission′s High level.