End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume III (Information Age Series)

488 Pages·2010·3.08 MB·English

by  Manuel Castells

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The Information Age
Economy, Society, and Culture
Volume III
End of Millennium
Thisfinal volume in ManuelCastells’trilogy studiesthe key defining
processestakingplaceinthelastdecadeofthetwentiethcenturyasan
expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old
industrialsocietyandtheemergingglobalnetworksociety.
ThebookstudiesempiricallythecollapseoftheSovietUnion,tracingit
backtotheincapacityofindustrialstatismtomanagethetransitionto
theInformationAge.Castellsdocumentshowinequality,poverty,and
socialexclusion,nationallyandglobally,areaninherentfeatureofthe
typeofnetworksocietythatemergedunderthedominationofglobal
capitalism. He proposes that the rise of a global criminal economy
is a fundamental development that would alter the way societies,
economies, and institutions are to be understood in our time. High-
lightingthegrowthoftheAsianPacificasthemostdynamicregionof
theworldeconomytheauthorexplainswhyChina,ratherthanJapan,
is the economic and political actor revolutionizing the global system.
Further,hestudiestheEuropeanUnionastheexpressionofanewform
ofpoliticalinstitution,theNetworkState.
After linking the content of End of the Millennium to current devel-
opments, the new preface to this volume assesses the validity of the
theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy,
proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed
experience.
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Table of Contents for Volumes I and II of Manuel Castells’ The
InformationAge:Economy,Society,andCulture
Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society
Prologue:TheNetandtheSelf
1 TheInformationTechnologyRevolution
2 TheNewEconomy:Informationalism,Globalization,Networking
3 TheNetworkEnterprise:TheCulture,Institutions,andOrganiza-
tionsoftheInformationalEconomy
4 TheTransformationofWorkandEmployment:Networkers,Job-
less,andFlex-timers
5 The Culture of Real Virtuality: The Integration of Electronic
Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of
InteractiveNetworks
6 TheSpaceofFlows
7 TheEdgeofForever:TimelessTime
Conclusion:TheNetworkSociety
Volume II: The Power of Identity
OurWorld,OurLives
1 CommunalHeavens:IdentityandMeaningintheNetworkSociety
2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New
GlobalOrder
3 TheGreeningoftheSelf:TheEnvironmentalMovement
4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexu-
alityintheInformationAge
5 Globalization,Identification,andtheState:APowerlessStateora
NetworkState?
6 InformationalPoliticsandtheCrisisofDemocracy
Conclusion:SocialChangeintheNetworkSociety
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End of Millennium
Second edition
With a new preface
Manuel Castells
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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Contents
ListofTables xi
ListofFigures xii
ListofCharts xiii
Prefacetothe2010EditionofEndofMillennium xiv
Acknowledgments1997 xxvii
ATimeofChange 1
1 TheCrisisofIndustrialStatismandtheCollapse
oftheSovietUnion 5
TheExtensiveModelofEconomicGrowth
andtheLimitsofHyperindustrialism 10
TheTechnologyQuestion 26
TheAbductionofIdentityandtheCrisisof
SovietFederalism 37
TheLastPerestroika 46
Nationalism,Democracy,andtheDisintegration
oftheSovietState 56
TheScarsofHistory,theLessonsforTheory,the
LegacyforSociety 62
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viii CONTENTS
2 TheRiseoftheFourthWorld:Informational
Capitalism,Poverty,andSocialExclusion 69
TowardaPolarizedWorld?AGlobalOverview 74
TheDe-humanizationofAfrica 85
Marginalizationandselectiveintegrationof
Sub-SaharanAfricaintheinformational-globaleconomy 85
Africa’stechnologicalapartheidatthedawnofthe
InformationAge 93
Thepredatorystate 97
Za¨ıre:thepersonalappropriationofthestate 100
Nigeria:oil,ethnicity,andmilitarypredation 103
Ethnicidentity,economicglobalization,andstate
formationinAfrica 106
Africa’splight 116
Africa’shope?TheSouthAfricanconnection 123
OutofAfricaorbacktoAfrica?Thepoliticsand
economicsofself-reliance 128
TheNewAmericanDilemma:Inequality,UrbanPoverty,
andSocialExclusionintheInformationAge 130
DualAmerica 131
Theinner-cityghettoasasystemofsocialexclusion 142
Whentheunderclassgoestohell 150
Globalization,Over-exploitation,andSocialExclusion:
theViewfromtheChildren 154
Thesexualexploitationofchildren 159
Thekillingofchildren:warmassacresandchildsoldiers 162
Whychildrenarewasted 164
Conclusion:theBlackHolesofInformationalCapitalism 166
3 ThePerverseConnection:theGlobal
CriminalEconomy 171
OrganizationalGlobalizationofCrime,Cultural
IdentificationofCriminals 173
ThePillageofRussia 185
Thestructuralperspective 189
Identifyingtheactors 190
MechanismsofAccumulation 193
Narcotrafico,Development,andDependencyin
LatinAmerica 198
Whataretheeconomicconsequencesofthe
drugsindustryforLatinAmerica? 202
WhyColombia? 204