Castells, Emanuel
Submitted by cmjones on February 27, 2007 - 12:42pm.
Name of Person:
Emanuel Castells
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Department:
City and Regional Planning, Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Manuel Castells' current research focuses on the social and economic implications of Internet. He is also currently interested in the debate on new development strategies appropriate for the Information Age.
Achievements:
Manuel Castells was one of the intellectual founders of what came to be known as the New Urban Sociology. His main publications in this field are The City and the Grassroots, a comparative study of urban social movements and community organizations based on his field work in France, Spain, Latin America, and California, that received the C.Wright Mills Award in 1983, and The Informational City (Blackwell, 1989), an analysis of the urban and regional changes brought about by information technology and economic restructuring in the United States. In 1983 Castells undertook the study of economic and social transformations associated with the information technology revolution. The results of this work were published in his trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell): 1st volume, The Rise of the Network Society (1996, revised edition 2000); 2nd volume, The Power of Identity (1997); 3rd volume, End of Millennium (1998, revised edition 2000). The trilogy is translated into Spanish, French, Swedish, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Croatian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and German. In 1998, Manuel Castells received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his lifelong contribution in the field of community and urban sociology.