Challenging Codes by Alberto Melucci

Challenging Codes by Alberto Melucci

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Summary

Leading social theorist Alberto Melucci builds on his highly influential Nomads of the Present to consider collective action in the postmodern age of information. Challenging Codes shares the social psychological perspective of its companion volume The Playing Self.

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Challenging Codes by Alberto Melucci

In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the experience of the individual in postmodern society. The focus is on the role of information in an age which knows both fragmentation and globalisation, building on the analysis of collective action familiar from the author's Nomads of the Present. Melucci addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, including political conflict and change, feminism, ecology, identity politics, power and inequality.
'Melucci provides a magisterial presentation of his distinctive approach to the study of contemporary social movement' Mayer Zald, University of Michigan
'Melucci's new book - his master book - is both the most comprehensive analytical study of social movements and an elaborate analysis of the new generation of collective actions which try to incorporate into private and collective experience the effects of a globalized and rapidly changing social context'. Alain Touraine, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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ISBN 13 9780521578431
ISBN 10 0521578434
Title Challenging Codes
Author Alberto Melucci
Series Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1996-09-12
Number of pages 456
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