The Power of Identity 2

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