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the leadership of Manuel Castells (a Permanent Visiting Fellow of STIAS) and Bernard Lategan (the Founding Director of STIAS).

      STIAS promotes high-level, innovative and interdisciplinary research (for more details, see https://www.stias.ac.za). For this project, a group of twelve experts were invited to explore the contradictory dynamics of globalization and identity and how this interaction is reshaping Africa in the twenty-first century. The result is a highly original book offering insights with historical, social, political, conceptual and methodological implications.

      The Editors would like to thank

       The contributors for their expertise and their constructive and open discussions in the best tradition of intellectual pursuit.

       STIAS and especially its Director, Professor Edward Kirumira, for the conducive work environment of the Institute and for the generous support of both the project and the publication.

       Polity Press and especially Professor John Thompson for their highly professional service and support.

       Manuel Castells and Bernard Lategan Barcelona and Stellenbosch

       March 2020

      Prof. Carlson Anyangwe, Adjunct Professor of International and Human Rights Law, Nelson Mandela School of Law, University of Fort Hare, formerly Rector of the Butterworth Campus, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa

      Prof. Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair, University of Southern California

      Mary de Haas, Honorary Research Associate, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal

      Prof. Albert Grundlingh, Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Stellenbosch University

      Marizanne Grundlingh, Lecturer, Varsity College, Cape Town

      Prof. Bernard Lategan, Founding Director, STIAS and Emeritus Professor, Stellenbosch University

      Prof. Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town

      Prof. Eghosa E. Osaghae, Tenured Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

      Dr Jabulani Sithole, Director, Mzala Nxumalo Centre, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

      Dr Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Basel and Research Fellow, University of the Free State

      Prof. Samson S. Wassara, Director, Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies (IPDSS), University of Juba, South Sudan

      Prof. Bahru Zewde, Emeritus Professor of History, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

       Manuel Castells and Bernard Lategan

      The contradictory dynamics reshaping our world in the twenty-first century are characterized by the relationship between globalization and identity. On the one hand, the core activities that define the economy, technology and geopolitical power are organized around a global network of glocal networks. This is the case for financial markets, international trade, multinational manufacturing, advanced business services, research and technology, military strategies, media production and distribution, and internet communication. On the other hand, historically rooted cultural identities, at the source of the creation of meaning, are stronger than ever everywhere, as a counterpart to the global flows of capital and communication that attempt to overwhelm the specificity of every human community, to merge them in a global culture that ultimately rationalizes the domination of certain values, multinational economic actors and political institutions in an interconnecting network of local and global hierarchies. To no avail. Deprived of their ability to exercise control over global forces, people around the world retreat into their own values, asserting their identity and using whatever means available to them to claim their autonomy vis-à-vis global networks that embody domination under the cover of instrumentality. In doing so, they are also mobilizing their energies to maximize their interest in the interconnecting global and local hierarchies in which they find themselves.

      This fundamental development can be observed everywhere, not just in the previously dominated/colonized areas of the world, but also in the United


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