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Manuel Castells
This profile deals with sociologist Manuel Castells.
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Manuel Castells was born in Spain in 1942. He studied
law and economics at the University of Barcelona during
1958-62 before graduating from the Sorbonne's Faculty
of Law & Economics in 1964. He gained a PhD in Sociology
from the University of Paris in 1967, based on a statistical
analysis of location strategies of industrial firms in
the Paris region. He holds a Doctorat d'Etat in Human
Sciences from the Sorbonne, and a doctorate in sociology
from the University of Madrid.
Castells is Professor of Sociology and Professor of City
& Regional Planning at the University of California,
Berkeley. Between 1967 and 1979 he taught sociology at
the University of Paris (Nanterre and the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales). He has been professor and
director of the Institute for Sociology of New Technologies,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Research Profesor at the
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Barcelona,
and a visiting professor at 15 universities in Europe,
the United States, Canada, Asia, and Latin America.
Castells' 1972 La Question Urbaine was influential
in development of of what came to be known as the New
Urban Sociology. It was followed by The City and the
Grassroots and the three volume study The Information
Age: Economy, Society & Culture for which he
is best known. It is reminiscent of Fernand Braudel's
The Mediterranean & the Mediterranean World in
the Age of Philip II and Civilization & Capitalism
15th-18th Century as a work of sweeping ambition
that's probably more cited than understood (or even fully
read).
Castells was appointed to the European Academy in 1994
and was a member of the European Commission's High Level
Expert Group on the Information Society in 1995-97.
He has been an Adviser to the European Commission, to
UNESCO, to the International Labour Office, the United
Nations Development Program, the US Agency for International
Development, the Governments of Chile (under Presidente
Allende), Brazil, People's Republic of China, Mexico,
Ecuador, France, Russian Federation, Portugal and Spain.
key writings
Castells' writings include -
La Question Urbaine (1972), translated
as The Urban Question a Marxist Approach (1979)
The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-cultural Theory
of Urban Social Movements (Berkeley: Uni of California
Press 1983 )
The Informational City: Information Technology,
Economic Restructuring & the Urban-Regional Process
(Oxford: Blackwell 1989)
The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced &
Less Developed Countries (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Uni Press 1989) co-editor with Alejandro Portes &
Lauren Benton
'Four Asian Tigers With a Dragon Head: A Comparative
Analysis of the State, Economy, and Society in the Asian
Pacific Rim' in States & Development in the
Asian Pacific Rim (Newbury Park: Sage 1992) edited
by Richard Appelbaum & Jeffrey Henderson
The New Global Economy in the Information Age: Reflections
on Our Changing World (1993) with Martin Carnoy,
Stephen Cohen & Fernando Cardoso
Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century
Industrial Complexes (London: Routledge 1994) with
Peter Hall
The Information Age: Economy, Society & Culture
- The Rise of the Network Society (Oxford: Blackwell
1996)
The Information Age: Economy, Society & Culture
- The Power of Identity (Oxford: Blackwell 1997)
The Local & the Global: Management of Cities
in the Information Age (1997) with Jordi Borja
The Information Age: Economy, Society & Culture
- End of Millennium (Oxford: Blackwell 1998)
The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet,
Business, and Society (Oxford: Blackwell 2001)
Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture,
and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Transnational
Perspectives) (2002) co-edited with Nezar Alsayyad
The Information Society and the Business Environment:
The Finnish Model (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 2003)
with Pekka Himanen
Conversations with Manuel Castells (London:
Polity 2003) by Manuel Castells & Martin Ince
studies
The major study promises to be the three volume Manuel
Castells
(Newbury Park: Sage 2003) edited by Frank Webster &
Basil Dimitriou.
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