{"title":"Manuel Castells","description":"\u003cp\u003eManuel Castells explores the complex dynamics of contemporary society through a critical lens on economy, politics, and culture. His works delve into the transformation brought by digital networks, the shifting identities within globalisation, and the evolving political landscapes of regions like Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect rigorous analysis woven with accessible insights, making his books essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003epolitics, current affairs\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eeducation and reference\u003c\/strong\u003e. His writing challenges conventional perspectives on power, communication, and social change in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-new-latin-america-by-fernando-calderon-9781509540020","title":"The New Latin America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLatin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological modernization has gone hand-in-hand with the reshaping of old identities and the emergence of new ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe transformation of Latin America has been shaped by social movements and political conflicts. The neoliberal model that dominated the first stage of the transformation induced widespread inequality and poverty, and triggered social explosions that led to its own collapse. A new model, neo-developmentalism, emerged from these crises as national populist movements were elected to government in several countries. The more the state intervened in the economy, the more it became vulnerable to corruption, until the rampant criminal economy came to penetrate state institutions. Upper middle classes defending their privileges and citizens indignant because of corruption of the political elites revolted against the new regimes, undermining the model of neo-developmentalism. In the midst of political disaffection and public despair, new social movements, women, youth, indigenous people, workers, peasants, opened up avenues of hope against the background of darkness invading the continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e, written by two leading scholars of Latin America, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the new Latin America that is in the process of taking shape today. It will be an indispensable text for students and scholars in Latin American Studies, sociology, politics and media and communication studies, and anyone interested in Latin America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432991801580,"sku":"9781509540020","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509540020.jpg?v=1774765885"},{"product_id":"the-power-of-identity-by-manuel-castells-9781405196871","title":"The Power of Identity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this second volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Information Age\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Power of Identity\u003c\/em\u003e includes an extensive new preface examining how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world. It applies Castells’ hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism, and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the globe. 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A number of economic practices and organisations emerged in Europe and the United States that embodied alternative values: the value of life over the value of money; the effectiveness of cooperation over cut-throat competition; the social responsibility of corporations and responsible regulation by governments over the short-term speculative strategies that brought the economy to the brink of catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnother Economy is Possible\u003c\/em\u003e examines the blossoming of innovative new experiments in organising work and life that emerged in the wake of the financial crisis: cooperatives, barter networks, ethical banking, community currencies, shared time banks, solidarity networks, sharing of goods, non-monetary transactions, etc. These experiments paved the way for the emergence of a sharing economy in all domains of activity oriented toward the satisfaction of human needs. Other innovations included the creation of cryptographic virtual currencies, epitomised by bitcoin, which blended a libertarian, entrepreneurial spirit with information technology to provide an alternative to standard forms of currency. Based on a cross-cultural analysis of alternative economic practices, the book develops an important theoretical argument: that the economy, as a human practice, is shaped by culture, and that the diversity of cultures, as revealed in a time of crisis, implies the possibility of different economies depending on the values and power relations that define economic institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, economics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone who wishes to understand how our societies and economies are changing today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462600048876,"sku":"9781509517206","price":131.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509517206-another-economy-is-possible.jpg?v=1775017894"},{"product_id":"end-of-millennium-by-manuel-castells-9781405196888","title":"End of Millennium","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnd of Millennium\u003c\/em\u003e explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionising the global system. 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