Manuel Castells
Castells, Manuel, The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements
1983Castells, Manuel, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
Well known theorist of global networks examines the mass uprisings across the world in 2011, giving account of events in ‘Arab Spring’ and the reaction to the bank collapse and austerity policies in the west in Iceland, Spain, Greece and the USA, and stressing the causal role of the internet.