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Conversations with Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells author Martin Ince author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:3rd Jun '03

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In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He builds on his earlier thinking, opening it to new audiences and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way.


  • Manuel Castells explains and expands his work in a series of conversations with British journalist Martin Ince.
  • Castells builds on his earlier work, opening it to new audiences, and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way.
  • Includes new thinking on social organisations and identity; new areas of innovation, including biotechnology and nanotechnology; education, knowledge and culture; and his analysis of areas of the world (Africa, Russia, Europe, the Americas and Asia) of which he has specialist knowledge.
  • Contains a detailed biography of Castells and a bibliography of his voluminous scholarly work.

'These conversations ... provide a highly interesting commentary by Castells on his own phenomenon and a (very compact) tour d'horizon of his ideas about every current political and social issue and every continent.' Times Higher Education Supplement

"...stimulating and such a constant source of pleasure. Castell shows himself here a commentator on the contemporary global scene of real insight and penetration." Krishan Kumar, Prometheus

ISBN: 9780745628486

Dimensions: 224mm x 142mm x 19mm

Weight: 336g

184 pages