[Complexity] Manuel Castells

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Manuel Castells (Spanish: Manuel Castells Oliván; born 1942, Hellín, Albacete, Spain) is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization.

The 2000–09 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index ranks him as the world’s fifth most-cited social science scholar, and the foremost-cited communication scholar.[1]

He was awarded the 2012 Holberg Prize,[2] for having "shaped our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society."[3]

Publications

Manuel Castells Oliván is one of the world's most often-cited social science and communications scholars;[10][11] he has written more than twenty books, including:

The Urban Question. A Marxist Approach (Alan Sheridan, translator). London, Edward Arnold (1977) (Original publication in French, 1972)
City, Class and Power. London; New York, MacMillan; St. Martins Press (1978)
The Economic Crisis and American Society. Princeton, NJ, Princeton UP (1980)
The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. Berkeley: University of California Press (1983)
The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban Regional Process. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell (1989)
The Information Age trilogy:
Castells, Manuel (1996, second edition, 2000). The Rise of the Network Society, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I. Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22140-1.
Castells, Manuel (1997, second edition, 2004). The Power of Identity, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. II. Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-0713-6.
Castells, Manuel (1998, second edition, 2000). End of Millennium, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. III. Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22139-5.
The Internet Galaxy, Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2001)
The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford UP, Oxford (2002) (co-author, Pekka Himanen )
The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar (2004), (editor and co-author), ISBN 978-1-84542-435-0.
The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy. Washington, DC, Center for Transatlantic Relations (2006) (co-editor)
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press (2006) (co-author)
Communication power. Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press (2009) ISBN 978-0-19-956704-1
Aftermath: the cultures of the economic crisis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (2012) ISBN 978-0-19-965841-1
Recent Journal Articles

Arsenault, A & Castells, M. (2008) Switching power: Rupert Murdoch and the global business of media politics: A sociological analysis. International Sociology 23(4): 488.
Arsenault, A, and Castells, M. 2008. The structure and dynamics of global multimedia business networks. International Journal of Communication 2707-48.
Castells, M (2007) Communication, power and counter-power in the network society. International Journal of Communication 1(1): 238-66.
Pertinent papers

Social Uses of Wireless Communications: The Mobile Information Society, co-author of the paper for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, USC, 8–9 October 2004.
Books about Manuel Castells

Susser, Ida. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Oxford, Blackwell (2002)
Castells, Manuel; Ince, Martin. Conversations with Manuel Castells. Oxford, Polity Press (2003)
Stalder, Felix. Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Oxford, Polity Press (2006)