Manuel Castells

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

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