Conversations with Manuel Castells
PCVS-Polity Conversations Series

1. Edition June 2003
184 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's
best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He
builds on his earlier thinking, opening it to new audiences and
taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way.
* * Manuel Castells explains and expands his work in a series of
conversations with British journalist Martin Ince.
* Castells builds on his earlier work, opening it to new
audiences, and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible
way.
* Includes new thinking on social organisations and identity; new
areas of innovation, including biotechnology and nanotechnology;
education, knowledge and culture; and his analysis of areas of the
world (Africa, Russia, Europe, the Americas and Asia) of which he
has specialist knowledge.
* Contains a detailed biography of Castells and a bibliography of
his voluminous scholarly work.
Introduction.
1. Manuel's life and work.
2. Innovation.
3. The Space of Flows.
4. Social movements and organisations.
5. Identity.
6. Politics and Power.
7. Castells' world tour.
8. A world of knowledge.
Bibliography.
Biographies of the Authors.
Index
Castells on his own phenomenon and a (very compact) tour
d'horizon of his ideas about every current political and social
issue and every continent.' Times Higher Education
Supplement
"...stimulating and such a constant source of pleasure. Castell
shows himself here a commentator on the contemporary global scene
of real insight and penetration." Krishan Kumar,
Prometheus
City and Regional Planning at the University of California,
Berkeley, and Professor of the Information Society at the Open
Catalan University (UOC), in Barcelona.
Martin Ince is a freelance journalist and contributing
editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement where he was
formerly deputy editor. This is his eighth book..