Manuel Castells

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Manuel Castells (born February 9, 1942 in Hellín , Albacete province , Spain ) is a Spanish sociologist . He has been Minister for Universities in the Sanchez II cabinet since January 13, 2020 .

In the 1970s, Castells played a central role in the development of Marxist urban sociology . Castell's most important contribution to sociology and media theory to date is the three-volume study on world society as a network society - The Information Age . Economy, Society, and Culture - which was created between 1996 and 1998 and was very popular in connection with the Internet boom, especially in California. The main thesis of this work aims at the fact that a new paradigm, the network, has risen to become a phenomenon that affects society as a whole, and that it has not only changed parts of society as it has been up to now. The work was also published in German from 2001.

Life

Castells was born in Hellín, but also lived as a child in Albacete , Madrid , Cartagena , Valencia and Barcelona . He studied law and economics at the University of Barcelona from 1958 to 1962 . He campaigned against Franco's dictatorship and had to flee to Paris , where he was recognized as a political refugee and graduated from the Sorbonne in 1964. In 1967 he received his doctorate in sociology from Paris University with a statistical analysis of the location policy of commercial enterprises in the Paris area. Castells also received a Doctorat d'Etat in the humanities from the Sorbonne and a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid .

In 1968 Castells was expelled from France because of his active involvement in student protests in 1968 and went into exile to Chile and Canada, where he did teaching. A little later he was pardoned and was able to return to Paris in 1970.

Castells taught sociology at the University of Paris between 1967 and 1979 , first at the Nanterre Campus , then from 1970 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . In this he also worked with Henri Lefebvre . In 1979 he was appointed professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley , and from 1994 to 1998 he directed Berkeley's Center for Western European Studies .

At the beginning of his scientific work, Castells was influenced by the structuralism of Louis Althusser .

Castells was also Professor and Director of the Institute for the Sociology of New Technologies at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Barcelona and at 15 other European, US and Latin American, Canadian and Asian universities. In 2003 he went to the University of Southern California and the Annenberg School for Communication as the first holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication . He has given readings at over 300 academic business institutions in around 40 countries.

Manuel Castells is Professor Emeritus for Sociology and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He currently works at the Open University of Catalonia and the University of California, San Diego .

Urban sociology

In the 1970s, Castells played a central role in the development of Marxist urban sociology .

See also

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • 2012: Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age . Polity Press, Cambridge, MA, ISBN 978-0-7456-6284-8
  • 2009: Communication power. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York, ISBN 0-19-956704-2 .
  • 2006: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective . MIT Press (co-author)
  • 2005: The Internet Galaxy . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-8100-3593-9 , Google Books
  • 2001: The information age . 3 volumes:
    • Volume 1: The Rise of the Network Society [1996]. Leske + Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3223-9 .
    • Volume 2: The Power of Identity [1997]. Leske + Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3224-7 .
    • Volume 3: Turn of the Millennium [1998]. Campus Verlag, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3225-5 .
  • 2001: The Internet Galaxy. Reflections on Internet, Business, and Society . Oxford University Press
  • 2001: Cities and Social Theory . Blackwell (Ed. By Ida Susser)
  • 2001: Building blocks of a theory of the network society . In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 11, pp. 423–440
  • 2000: Materials for an explanatory theory of the network society . In: British Journal of Sociology . Special millennium issue 1, 5-24
  • 1998: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture , Volume 3: End of Millennium . Blackwell Publishers, Oxford / Malden MA
  • 1997: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture , Volume 2: The Power of Identity , Blackwell Publishers, Oxford / Malden MA
  • 1996: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture , Volume 1: The Rise of the Network Society , Blackwell Publishers, Oxford / Malden MA
  • 1989: The Informational City . Blackwell
  • 1983: The City and the Grassroots . University of California Press
  • 1973: Luttes urbaines et pouvoir politique ; German struggle in the cities: social contradictions and political power . Berlin 1975 (new edition 2012)
  • 1973: La Question Urbaine

literature

  • Gerd Nollmann: Manuel Castells. In: Stephan Moebius & Dirk Quadflieg (Hrsg.): Culture. Present theories . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14519-3
  • Felix Stalder : Manuel Castells . Polity, London 2006
  • Tassilo Gröper: Networked locally worldwide. The structural change in the media society . Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2210-8 , pp. 31-70

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Christian Rößler, Madrid: New government in Spain: Pedro Sánchez presents his cabinet . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 12, 2020]).
  2. ^ A b Andrej Holm : Foreword, in: Manuell Castells: Struggle in the cities. Social contradictions and political power , Hamburg 2012, p. 9
  3. ^ Andrej Holm: Foreword, in: Manuell Castells: Struggle in the cities. Social contradictions and political power , Hamburg 2012, p. 10
  4. Universidad Abierta de Cataluña in the Spanish language Wikipedia
  5. ^ Gerd Nollmann: Manuel Castells. Culture, technology and information society . In: Moebius, Quadflieg: Culture. Present theories . VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 481-490.
  6. Holberg International Memorial Prize 2012: Manuel Castells ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at holbergprisen.no; Retrieved March 29, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.holbergprisen.no
  7. 2013 Balzan Prize for Sociology