Manuel Castells entwirft in seinem dreibändigen Werk eine Soziologie des Informationszeitalters. Auf der Grundlage reichhaltigen empirischen Materials zeichnet er nach, analysiert und interpretiert die Entwicklung unserer Welt von der Industriegesell...
This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of...
This final volume in Manuel Castellsâ trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society...
Im zweiten Band seines Werkes ,Das Informationszeitalter' zeigt Castells die beiden großen einander entgegen gesetzten Trends in unserer Welt: Globalisierung und Identität. Die Revolution der Informationstechnologie und die Erneuerung des...
Der Fall der Sowjetunion, Ausgangspunkt dieses Bandes, zeigt die Unfähigkeit zentralistischer Staatswirtschaften, mit der Transformation zum Informationszeitalter fertig zu werden. Aber Ungleichheit, Polarisierung und sozialer Ausschluss als Folgen...
The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different...
This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on...
Manuel Castells is one of the world's best-known social scientists. His work is often compared, in scope and ambition, with that of Marx or Weber. In this text, he explains and expands his work in a series of conversations with British journalist Martin...
The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of the Internet has been extraordinary - instigating and enabling changes in virtually every area of human activity and society. We have new systems of communication,...
Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national...
Estudia la relación entre asentamientos humanos y sistema político basándose en investigaciones de campo realizadas en Argentina, Perú, Chile y México. Resume el estado de la llamada ?marginalidad urbana?, y presenta...