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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 Feb 1942
- Works
- 152
Top works
- Spain beyond myths
- Campamentos de Santiago
- La era de la información, Vol. 3
- Comunicación y poder
- Crise du logement et mouvements sociaux urbains
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- Listeners
- 33
- Total plays
- 41
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,848x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,908x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,812x
- Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models
· 1995 · cited 14,471x
- The Hallmarks of Aging
· 2013 · cited 13,783x
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Quotes
- “"Urban problems" are increasingly becoming a political issue as the socialization of the means of production is accompanied by the increasing socialization of the means of consumption or, if one prefers, from the moment collective facilities begin to play a strategic role in the structure and rhythms of everyday life.”
- “"The city" is not a framework but a social practice in constant flux the more it becomes an issue, the more it is a source of contradictions and the more its social manipulation is linked to the ensemble of social and political conflicts.”
- “By social movements we mean a certain type of organisation of social practices, the logic of whose development contradicts the institutionally dominant social logic”
- “We must conceive of opposition to decisions relating to urban planning as something more than "consumer-reaction" and, consequently, we must link it to the whole range of social contradictions and look into the conditions for the emergence and the determination of the objectives of social movements in the urban field."”
- “The urban renewal programme is one of the most spectacular urban programmes to have been undertaken in Paris; it is certainly the one which has provoked the biggest public outcry. The renewal programme in the strict sense of the term, has two essential characteristics:”
- “This book was born out of astonishment. At a time when the waves of the anti-imperialist struggle are sweeping across the world, when movements of revolt are bursting out at the very heart of advanced capitalism, when the revival of working-class action is creating a new political situation in Europe, ‘urban problems’ are becoming an essential element in the policies of governments, in the concerns of the mass media, and consequently, in the everyday life of a large section of the population.”
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Key facts
- Monarch
- Felipe VI
- Prime minister
- Pedro Sánchez
- Preceded by
- Pedro Duque (Universities)
- Succeeded by
- Joan Subirats
- Born
- ( 1942-02-09 ) 9 February 1942 (age 84) , Hellín , Albacete , Spanish State
- Spouse
- Emma Kiselyova
- Parents
- Fernando Castells Adriaensens (father) Josefina Olivan Escartin (mother)
- Alma mater
- University of Paris
- Known for
- Research on the information society , communication and globalization , Organization theory , Network society
- Website
- www .manuelcastells .info /en
- Fields
- Sociology , urban planning , communication studies
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge ; University of Southern California ; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ( Open University of Catalonia ); EHESS ; University of Paris X: Nanterre
- Doctoral advisor
- Alain Touraine
- Doctoral students
- Ananya Roy , Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Other notable students
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.manuelcastells.info
- Image
- Manuel Castells 2020 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
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- name in native language
- Manuel Castells Oliván
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Manuel Castells Oliván ( Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, communication and globalization.
Castells is a full professor of sociology at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona. He is also a university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism in Los Angeles. Additionally, he is a professor emeritus of sociology and professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is also a fellow of St John's College at the University of Cambridge.