run the Internet and globalization on a global leveling of culture and identity? On the contrary, Manuel Castells says in his book "The Information Age". The technological and economic adjustment causes massive counter-movements.
Castells sees "the rise of powerful expressions of collective identity" (1). People make claims to cultural uniqueness and claims to control over their lives.
arises as collective identity? Castells sees this as a process of meaning making. People define themselves as evangelical Christians, or about fundamentalist Islamists, as Catalans or Georgians. Here a set of cultural attributes, will be given priority over others.
Here is a problem visible. It's true that described for example in the southeast of Spain a lot of people as 'Catalans' heart and soul. But just as the Catalans? Most people in the West derive their identity in various dimensions. That is quite an achievement of civilization. You must be a notion of composite or hybrid identity are taken.
Castells notes a sharp distinction between local worlds and global world. Only the elite can get their active identity on the complex global world. The majority of people is tied back to a defensive identity in the local environment. Since moving to communities emerge who work around for better living conditions in their neighborhood. Or form in the less subtle variant, a transition scene.
They are perceptive observations from the 90's. Whether this is limited to historical trends or replace conventional forms of politics and civil society appear worthy of discussion.
(1) Manuel Castells. The information age. Volume 2: The power of identity. P. 4
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