List of Figures                                    xii
List of Tables                                     xiv
List of Charts                                     xvi
Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of        xvii
Identity
Preface and Acknowledgments 2003                   xxxvii
Acknowledgments 1996                               xliii
Our World, our Lives                               1
1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the    5
Network Society
  The Construction of Identity                     6
  God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and      12
  Cultural Identity
    Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism   13
    God save me! American Christian                23
    fundamentalism
  Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of           30
  Globalization: Imagined Communities or
  Communal Images?
    Nations against the state: the breakup of      35
    the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of
    Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh
    Gosudarstv)
    Nations without a state: Catalunya             45
    Nations of the information age                 54
  Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity      56
  in the Network Society
  Territorial Identities: The Local Community      63
  Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the         68
  Information Age
2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements    71
against the New Global Order
  Globalization, Informationalization, and         72
  Social Movements
  Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational     75
  Guerrilla Movement
    Who are the Zapatistas?                        77
    The value structure of the Zapatistas:         80
    identity, adversaries, and goals
    The communication strategy of the              82
    Zapatistas: the Internet and the media
    The contradictory relationship between         85
    social movement and political institution
  Up in Arms against the New World Order: The      87
  American Militia and the Patriot Movement
    The militias and the Patriots: a               90
    multi-thematic information network
    The Patriots' banners                          95
    Who are the Patriots?                          98
    The militia, the Patriots, and American        99
    society
  The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo   100
    Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo   101
    Aum's beliefs and methodology                  104
    Aum and Japanese society                       105
  Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in     108
  the Name of God
    The goals and values of al-Qaeda               111
    The evolving process of al-Qaeda's struggle    115
    The mujahedeen and their support bases         119
    The young lion of the global jihad: Osama      124
    bin Laden
    From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial       128
    networks, Islamic networks, terrorist
    networks
    Networking and media politics: the             135
    organization, tactics, and strategy of
    al-Qaeda
    9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a           140
    networked, global, fundamentalist movement?
  "No Globalization without Representation!":      145
  The Anti-globalization Movement
    "El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido":       147
    the diversity of the anti-globalization
    movement
    The values and goals of the movement           152
    against globalization
    Networking as a political way of being         154
    An informational movement: the theatrical      156
    tactics of anti-globalization militants
    The movement in context: social change and     158
    institutional change
  The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New      160
  Global Order
  Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization       166
3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental      168
Movement
  The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A    170
  Typology
  The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and     179
  the Ecologists' Challenge
  Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds,      186
  Taming Capital, Courting the State,
  Tap-dancing with the Media
  Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New           190
  Frontier
4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements,     192
Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age
  The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family             196
  Women at Work                                    215
  Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement    234
    American feminism: a discontinuous             235
    continuity
    Is feminism global?                            243
    Feminism: an inducive polyphony                252
  The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation    261
  Movements
    Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation    266
    movements in Taipei
    Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San    271
    Francisco
    Summing up: sexual identity and the            279
    patriarchal family
  Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the        280
  Crisis of Patriarchalism
    The incredibly shrinking family                280
    The reproduction of mothering under the        288
    non-reproduction of patriarchalism
    Body identity: the (re)construction of         294
    sexuality
    Flexible personalities in a                    299
    post-patriarchal world
  The End of Patriarchalism?                       301
5 Globalization, Identification, and the State:    303
A Powerless State or a Network State?
  Globalization and the State                      304
    The transnational core of national economies   305
    A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal      307
    crisis of the state in the global economy
    Globalization and the welfare state            312
    Global communication networks, local           316
    audiences, uncertain regulators
    A lawless world?                               321
  The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism   323
  Global Governance and Networks of                328
  Nation-states
  Identities, Local Governments, and the           332
  Deconstruction of the Nation-state
  The Identification of the State                  337
  The Return of the State                          340
    The state, violence, and surveillance: from    340
    Big Brother to little sisters
    American unilateralism and the new             344
    geopolitics
    The Iraq War and its aftermath                 349
    The consequences of American unilateralism     353
  The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network      356
  State, and the Theory of the State
  Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun        364
  Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy
6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of         367
Democracy
  Introduction: The Politics of Society            367
  Media as the Space of Politics in the            371
  Information Age
    Politics and the media: the citizens'          371
    connection
    Show politics and political marketing: the     375
    American model
    Is European politics being "Americanized"?     381
    Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre        386
    Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru
  Informational Politics in Action: The            391
  Politics of Scandal
  The Crisis of Democracy                          402
  Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy?            414
Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society   419
Methodological Appendix                            429
  Appendix for Tables 5.1 and 5.2                  429
  Appendix for Figure 6.9: Level of Support for    456
  Mainstream Parties in National Elections,
  1980-2002
Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III           464
References                                         466
Index                                              512