The power of identity: the information age v. II Economy, society, and culture

Originally published in 1997, The Power of Identity, the second volume in TheInformation Age trilogy, saw the writing on the global wall recognising identity as a defining principle of social organization and analyzing the importance of cultural, religious, and national identities as sources of meaning for people, and the implications of these identities for social movements. Now with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, this second edition analyzes the major social and political events directly derived from the diagnosis of the book: Al Qaeda and fundamentalist terror networks; theIraq War; the geopolitics of fear under the Bush Administration; and the Internet-based networking of global social movements fighting for global justice. Studying grassroots mobilizations against the unfettered globalization of wealth and power, and the formation of alternative projects of social organization, this book charts the transformation of the nation-state into a network state, and the submission of political representation to the dictates of media politics.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9687-1
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 584
• Fecha Publicación: 04/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés