Aftermath

• 1: Manuel Castells, João Caraça and Gustavo Cardoso: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis: An Introduction


• PRELUDE


• 2: Rosalind Williams: The Rolling Apocalypse of Contemporary History


• 3: João Caraça: The Separation of Cultures and the Decline of Modernity


• WHICH CRISIS? WHOSE CRISIS?


• 4: John B. Thompson: The Metamorphosis of a Crisis


• 5: Michel Wieviorka: Financial Crisis or Societal Mutation?


• DEALING WITH THE CRISIS


• 6: Sarah Banet-Weiser: Branding the Crisis


• 7: Terhi Rantanen: In Nationalism We Trust?


• 8: Pekka Himanen: Crisis, Identity and the Welfare State


• BEYOND THE CRISIS


• 9: Gustavo Cardoso and Pedro Jacobetty: Surfing the Crisis: Cultures of Belonging and Networked Social Change


• 10: Joana Conill, Manuel Castells, Amalia Cardenas and Lisa Servon: Beyond the Crisis: The Emergence of Alternative Economic Practises


• THE NON-GLOBAL GLOBAL CRISIS


• 11: You-tien Hsing: No Crisis in China? The Rise of China's Social Crisis


• 12: Ernesto Ottone: A Non-Global Crisis? Challenging the Crisis in Latin America


• AFTERMATH?

Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as well as Director of Research at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, and holder of the Chair of Network Society at the College d' Etudes Mondiales, Paris. He has published 26 books including the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell, 1996-2000), The Internet Galaxy (OUP, 2001), and Communication Power (OUP, 2nd Edition, 2013). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, of the Academia Europaea, of the British Academy, of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics. He has received 18 honorary doctorates, as well as the Erasmus Medal 2010, and the Holberg Memorial Prize 2012.

João Caraça obtained a D. Phil. in Nuclear Physics at the University of Oxford and the Agregação in Physics at the Lisbon Faculty of Sciences. He is Director of the Science Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and also Full Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He is member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology - EIT. He also integrates the Steering Group of the European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding and is President of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Business Association for Innovation - COTEC. He was Science Adviser of the President of the Portuguese Republic (1996-2006), has published over 150 scientific papers, and co-authored Limits to Competition (1995), co-edited O Futuro Tecnológico (1999) and collaborated in Le Printemps du Politique (2007).

Gustavo Cardoso is Professor of Media and Society at IUL - Lisbon University Institute. His areas of interest are the cultures of the network society, the transformations of the notions of property,

Reviews from previous edition"Manuel Castells has shaped himself into the most prominent and influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications and network age. He is the Marshall McLuhan of our time."--John Lloyd, Financial Times"a challenging and intriguing work [in its] ambitions, scope and concepts."--Paschal Preston, Media, Culture & Society, Volume 32 (6), 2010"A sustained inquiry into the nature of political and economic power in the modern world."--Steven Livingston, Political Communicatoin (27)"Castells has done it again, a masterpiece of global perspective and enviable erudition. Moving beyond his trilogy on the information age, Castells focuses on how cultural, economic and particularly political power relationships are constituted and sustained through systematic communication flows. A new line of analysis draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology to track the role of emotion in political communication. Case studies include global media deregulation, the politics of scandal, framing the war in Iraq, ecological social movements, the Obama presidential candidacy and a fascinating comparison of media control dynamics in Russia and China."-- W. Russell Neuman, Evans Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan"How could Manuel Castells have predicted that now is the time of the perfect storm? I do not know. But I do know that his new book coincides with the largest downturn in global economies since the 1930s, with the most important American election since the 1960s, with a most radical transformation of world politics in many generations, and with the most profound reevaluation of the lives of modern citizens, from what they value to how they communicate. We have become used to Castells' careful scholarship and penetrating analyses but in this new book he cuts deeper into the heart of the matter. Sometimes he provides illuminating answers and where he cannot, he frames the questions that must