Manuel Castells: 14 books
by Manuel Castells
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the...
Networks of Outrage and Hope
Social Movements in the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Networks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere. While these...
Rupture
The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
The majority of citizens in the world today do not trust their political representatives, the mainstream political parties, the established political institutions or their governments. This widespread crisis of legitimacy underlies a series of dramatic changes that have taken place in recent times...
Piracy Cultures
How a Growing Portion of the Global Population Is Building Media Relationships Through Alternate Channels of Obtaining Content
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Piracy CulturesEditorial Introduction
MANUEL CASTELLS
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University of Southern California
GUSTAVO CARDOSO
Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL)
What are "Piracy Cultures"? Usually, we look at media consumption starting from a media industry definition....
by Manuel Castells
Language: French
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Après avoir vécu toute sa jeunesse sous le régime franquiste et y avoir résisté en diffusant tant bien que mal des tracts ronéotypés, Manuel Castells peut déclarer avec raison que « le pouvoir repose sur le contrôle de la communication, et le contrepouvoir sur sa capacité à déjouer ce...
by Henry A. Giroux, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1999
Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change. The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their...
Local and Global
The Management of Cities in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
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 cities will become more important, and proposing...
Technopoles of the World
The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. Created out of a technological revolution, the formation of the global economy and the emergence of a new form of economic production and management,...
Another Economy is Possible
Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered...
Mobile Communication and Society
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life--or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at...
by Manuel Castells, Henri Lefebvre
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Quelle est la relation existante entre organisation de l’espace et développement des forces productives ? Ce livre essaie d’avancer dans le traitement d’une telle question, qui semble être centrale pour l’aménagement du territoire, en analysant la logique sous-jacente à l’espace de...
by Manuel Castells
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1974
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1974
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Tan lejos de Dios
Delitos y falsedades de la iglesia que Francisco quiere reformar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2017
No es un secreto que el Vaticano, en el nombre de Dios, ha maltratado y tergiversado las creencias originales del cristianismo. Así mismo, La Iglesia Católica, representada por el Vaticano, ha encubierto o simplemente guardado silencio frente a asesinatos, actos de pederastia, fraudes financieros...
Los siete rostros de Jesús
Una historia diferente del origen del cristianismo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Este libro responde una serie de interrogantes sobre la religión católica, presentando la tesis de una elaboración progresiva de los evangelios, cuyos autores compendiaron todas las creencias es del mundo judío de la diáspora y del mundo grecorromano. De esta forma, los evangelistas fueron incorporando...