The Power of Identity -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Charts -- Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of Identity -- Preface and Acknowledgments 2003 -- Acknowledgments 1996 -- Our World, our Lives -- 1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society -- The Construction of Identity -- God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity -- Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism -- God save me! American Christian fundamentalism -- Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images? -- Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv) -- Nations without a state: Catalunya -- Nations of the information age -- Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society -- Territorial Identities: The Local Community -- Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age -- 2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order -- Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements -- Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement -- Who are the Zapatistas? -- The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals -- The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media -- The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution -- Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement -- The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network -- The Patriots' banners -- Who are the Patriots? -- The militia, the Patriots, and American society -- The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo -- Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo -- Aum's beliefs and methodology -- Aum and Japanese society.

Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God -- The goals and values of al-Qaeda -- The evolving process of al-Qaeda's struggle -- The mujahedeen and their support bases -- The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden -- From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks -- Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda -- 9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement? -- ''No Globalization without Representation!'': The Anti-globalization Movement -- ''El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido'': the diversity of the anti-globalization movement -- The values and goals of the movement against globalization -- Networking as a political way of being -- An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants -- The movement in context: social change and institutional change -- The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order -- Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization -- 3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement -- The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology -- The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists' Challenge -- Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media -- Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier -- 4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age -- The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family -- Women at Work -- Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement -- American feminism: a discontinuous continuity -- Is feminism global? -- Feminism: an inducive polyphony -- The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements -- Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei -- Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco.

Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family -- Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism -- The incredibly shrinking family -- The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism -- Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality -- Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world -- The End of Patriarchalism? -- 5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? -- Globalization and the State -- The transnational core of national economies -- A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy -- Globalization and the welfare state -- Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators -- A lawless world? -- The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism -- Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states -- Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state -- The Identification of the State -- The Return of the State -- The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters -- American unilateralism and the new geopolitics -- The Iraq War and its aftermath -- The consequences of American unilateralism -- The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State -- Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy -- 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy -- Introduction: The Politics of Society -- Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age -- Politics and the media: the citizens' connection -- Show politics and political marketing: the American model -- Is European politics being ''Americanized''? -- Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru -- Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal -- The Crisis of Democracy.

Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy? -- Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society -- Methodological Appendix -- Appendix for Tables 5.1 and 5.2 -- Appendix for Figure 6.9: Level of Support for Mainstream Parties in National Elections, 1980-2002 -- Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III -- References -- Index.