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The city and the grassroots : a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements
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ISBN: 0713163704 9780713163704 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Edward Arnold


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City, class and power
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ISBN: 0333225546 0333225554 9780333225554 9780333225547 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Macmillan

The informational city : information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process
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ISBN: 0631159886 9780631159889 0631179372 9780631179375 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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"The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction between information technology, economic restructuring and socio-spatial change through the empirical observation of contemporary national, urban and regional processes in the capitalist world, with emphasis on the United States. The author summarizes a very wide range of evidence of urban and regional development, and isolates the causes and consequences of the processes and trends that may be observed."--Publisher description.

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Economic structure --- Sociology of environment --- Economic sociology --- Analyse spatiale (Economie politique) --- Espace (Economie politique) --- Espace économique --- I/T --- ICT --- IT --- Informatietechnologie --- Information [Technologie de l'] --- Information technology --- Ruimte (Economische politiek) --- Space in economics --- Spatial economics --- Technologie de l'information --- informatie- en communicatietechnologie --- Économie spatiale --- High technology industries --- -Information technology --- Technology --- -Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Economics --- Regional economics --- IT (Information technology) --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Industries --- Location --- Social aspects --- -Location --- -Spatial economics --- Applied science --- Information technology. --- Space in economics. --- Geografie --- Social aspects. --- Location. --- Sociale geografie --- Bewoning en leefgemeenschap. --- 316.771 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U13 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U33 --- #SBIB:309H1720 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A25 --- 316.771 Informatiekunde --- Informatiekunde --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: sociale aspecten van de ruimte, sociale ecologie --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: regio, regionale ongelijkheid, regionale ontwikkeling --- Informatiekunde, informatie management --- Na-oorlogse industriële ontwikkeling: concentratie en multinationalisering --- Technologie --- Industries de pointe --- Aspect social --- Localisation --- Économie urbaine --- Géographie économique --- Technology - Social aspects --- High technology industries - Location

The network society : a cross-cultural perspective.
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ISBN: 1843765055 9781845424350 1845424352 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

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High technology, space, and society
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ISBN: 0803924151 0803924143 9780803924147 Year: 1985 Volume: v. 28 Publisher: Beverly Hills London New Delhi Sage


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La question urbaine
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ISBN: 2707105139 9782707105134 Year: 1975 Publisher: Paris: Maspero,

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Le nouveau spectre qui hante le monde serait-il "l'urbain" ? Le développement de nouvelles contradictions sociales liées à la phase actuelle du capitalisme sert de point d'appui à un discours technocratique qui les confond dans une caractérisation globale, en masquant la détermination de classe, sous le thème ambigu de l'urbain, alors que, "à gauche", certains ont inversé cette idéologie, en faisant de la question urbaine la contradiction principale. Une telle situation a des conséquences directes à la fois sur les tendances de l'appareil d'Etat, sur l'idéologie dominante et sur les nouvelles formes de la lutte politique. Le marxisme, qui, à juste titre, ne se pose que les problèmes soulevés par la pratique politique, est moins armé dans ce domaine que dans d'autres pour répondre théoriquement à ce genre de questions. De ce fait, la "sociologie urbaine" a investi la réflexion sur ces thèmes, suscitant une confusion croissante soigneusement entretenue. Ce livre vise à aider l'élaboration d'outils théoriques susceptibles d'analyser concrètement les contradictions sociales connotées par l'idéologie de l'urbain. Pour ce faire, il part à la fois de la critique de la "sociologie urbaine", du développement des éléments théorique du matérialisme historique et de l'analyse de différentes situations concrètes (France, Etats-Unis, Amérique latine, Canada, etc.), par rapport à une succession théoriquement ordonnée de thèmes : le processus d'urbanisation, l'idéologie urbaine, la structure urbaine, la planification urbaine, les luttes revendicatives relatives à ce domaine. C'est peut-être à partir d'analyses concrètes menées dans cette perspective qu'on peut contribuer au développement d'une pratique politique réfléchie sur la question urbaine.

The Internet galaxy : reflections on the Internet, business and society
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ISBN: 0199241538 9780199241538 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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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, new businesses, new media and sources of information, new forms of political and cultural expression, new forms of teaching and learning, and new communities. How has the Internet affected social and cultural organization, political participation and communication, and urban living? How is it shaping old and new business organizations? What are the realities of the digital divide? Manuel Castells helps us to understand what is happening and how the Internet has become the medium of the new network society.


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Communication power.
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ISBN: 0199681937 9780199567041 9780199681938 0199567042 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The media have become the space where power strategies are played out. In the current technological context mass communication goes beyond traditional media and includes the Internet and mobile communication. In this wide-ranging and powerful book, Manuel Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by this revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, and power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment. Created in the commons of the Internet this communication can be locally based, but globally connected. It is built through messaging, social networks sites, and blogging, and is now being used by the millions around the world who have access to the Internet. Drawing on a wide range of social and psychological theories, Castells presents original research on political processes and social movements, including the misinformation of the American public on the Iraq War, the global environmental movement to prevent climate change, the control of information in China and Russia, and Internet-based political campaigns, such as the Obama campaign in the United States. On the basis of these case studies he proposes a new theory of power in the information age based on the management of communication networks Justly celebrated for his analysis of the network society, Castells here builds on that work, offering a well grounded and immensely challenging picture of communication and power in the 21st century. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world.

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