End of millennium / / Manuel Castells

• Autore: Castells Manuel <1942->
• Pubblicazione: United Kingdom : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , [2010]; ©2010
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (488 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.9
• Soggetto topico: Economic history; Information technology - Social aspects; Social history
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: End of Millennium; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Charts; Preface to the 2010 Edition of End of Millennium; Acknowledgments 1997; A Time of Change; 1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union; The Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyperindustrialism; The Technology Question; The Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet Federalism; The Last Perestroika; Nationalism, Democracy, and the Disintegration of the Soviet State; The Scars of History, the Lessons for Theory, the Legacy for Society ; 2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social ExclusionToward a Polarized World? A Global Overview; The De-humanization of Africa; Marginalization and selective integration of Sub-Saharan Africa in the informational-global economy; Africa's technological apartheid at the dawn of the Information Age; The predatory state; Zaı ̈re: the personal appropriation of the state; Nigeria: oil, ethnicity, and military predation; Ethnic identity, economic globalization, and state formation in Africa; Africa's plight; Africa's hope? The South African connection ; Out of Africa or back to Africa? The politics and economics of self-relianceThe New American Dilemma: Inequality, Urban Poverty, and Social Exclusion in the Information Age; Dual America; The inner-city ghetto as a system of social exclusion; When the underclass goes to hell; Globalization, Over-exploitation, and Social Exclusion: the View from the Children; The sexual exploitation of children; The killing of children: war massacres and child soldiers; Why children are wasted; Conclusion: the Black Holes of Informational Capitalism; 3 The Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy ; Organizational Globalization of Crime, Cultural Identification of CriminalsThe Pillage of Russia; The structural perspective; Identifying the actors; Mechanisms of Accumulation; Narcotrafico, Development, and Dependency in Latin America; What are the economic consequences of the drugs industry for Latin America?; Why Colombia?; The Impact of Global Crime on Economy, Politics, and Culture; 4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State; The Changing Fortunes of the Asian Pacific; Heisei's Japan: Developmental State versus Information Society ; A social model of the Japanese developmental processDeclining sun: the crisis of the Japanese model of development; The end of ''Nagatacho politics''; Hatten Hokka and Johoka Shakai: a contradictory relationship; Japan and the Pacific; Beheading the Dragon? Four Asian Tigers with a Dragon Head, and their Civil Societies; Understanding Asian development; Singapore: state nation-building via multinational corporations; South Korea: the state production of oligopolistic capitalism; Taiwan: flexible capitalism under the guidance of an inflexible state ; Hong Kong model versus Hong Kong reality: small business in a world economy, and the colonial version of the welfare state
• Sommario/riassunto: This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the emerging global network society. Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionizing the global systemReflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network stateSubstantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilo
• Titolo autorizzato: End of millennium
• ISBN: 1-282-49157-1; 9786612491573; 1-4443-2343-1; 1-4443-2344-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996198151503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno