Nicholas Gane: The Future of Social Theory (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · creolization, global city, liquid modernity, media theory, nation-state, networks, philosophy, politics, risk society, social theory, society, sociology
“The basic concept of society has come under attack – political acts, critical theory, new media and even history itself have undermined what we think of as the social. The Future of Social Theory brings together new interviews with the world’s leading social theorists on what society means today: Zygmunt Bauman, John Urry, Saska Sassen, Bruno Latour, Scott Lash, Nikolas Rose, Judith Butler and Francoise Verges. The topics covered include: liquid modernization and the individualization of the society; the shift towards global forms of chaos and complexity; the displacement of the social into global city networks; the shift away from a theory of the social to a theory of space; the transformation of society with the rise of new technology; the continuing influence of historical forms of political power; society as a gendered idea; and society as a product of Empire.”
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004
ISBN 0826470661, 9780826470669
210 pages
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Comment (1)Manuel Castells: The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development (1991)
Filed under book | Tags: · decentralization, global city, information technology, service economy, urbanism
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 Wiley-Blackwell, 1991
ISBN 0631179372, 9780631179375
Length 402 pages
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Comment (0)Saskia Sassen: Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (1998–) [EN, CR]
Filed under book | Tags: · city, economy, global city, globalisation, immigration, migration, mobility
“Saskia Sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. Now available in paperback, Globalization and Its Discontents is a collection of Sassen’s essays dealing with topics such as the “global city,” gender and migration (reconceived as the globalization of labor), information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. Sassen brings together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology, and political science, showing how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and low-income inner cities has become. Incisive and original, she takes on common political, cultural, and economic misconceptions of globalization and offers a thoughtful, provocative new look at our increasingly global society.”
Publisher New Press, 1998
ISBN 1565845188, 9781565845183
xxxvi+253 pages
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Protugeografije globalizacije (Croatian, trans. Danijela Sestrić, Jakov Vilović and Tomislav Medak, 2003)