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The Power of Identity Second edition With a new preface Manuel Castells A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication The Information Age Economy, Society, and Culture Volume II The Power of Identity Originally published in 1997, The Power of Identity, the second volume in The Information Age trilogy, saw the writing on the global wall – recognizing identity as a defining principle of social organization and analyzing the importance of cultural, religious, and national identities as sources of meaning for people, and the implications of these identities for social movements. Now with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, this second edition analyzes the major social and political events directly derived from the diagnosis of the book: Al Qaeda and fundamentalist terror networks; the Iraq War; the geopolitics of fear under the Bush Administration; and the Internet-based networking of global social movements fighting for global justice. Studying grassroots mobilizations against the unfettered globalization of wealth and power, and the formation of alternative projects of social organization, this book charts the transformation of the nationstate into a network state, and the submission of political representation to the dictates of media politics. Table of Contents for Volumes I and III of Manuel Castells’ The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society Prologue: The Net and the Self 1 The Information Technology Revolution 2 The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization, Networking 3 The Network Enterprise: The Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy 4 The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Jobless, and Flex-timers 5 The Culture of Real Virtuality: The Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks 6 The Space of Flows 7 The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time Conclusion: The Network Society Volume III: End of Millennium A Time of Change 1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union 2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Captalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion 3 The Perverse Connection: The Global Criminal Economy 4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State 5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State Conclusion: Making Sense of our World The Power of Identity Second edition With a new preface Manuel Castells A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This second edition with a new preface first published 2010 # 2010 Manuel Castells Edition history: Blackwell Publishing Ltd (1e, 1997), Blackwell Publishing Ltd (2e, 2004) Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. The right of Manuel Castells to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except a