Editing Manuel Castells (section)

{{short description|Spanish sociologist and politician}}
{{family name hatnote|Castells|Oliván|lang=Spanish}}
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| name                = Manuel Castells
| image               = Manuel Castells 2020b (cropped).jpg
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| caption             = Castells in 2020
| office              = [[Ministry of Universities|Minister of Universities]]
| term_start          = 13 January 2020
| predecessor         = [[Pedro Duque]] {{small|(Universities)}}
| monarch             = [[Felipe VI of Spain|Felipe VI]]
| primeminister       = [[Pedro Sánchez]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|2|9}}
| birth_place         = [[Hellín]], [[Albacete (province)|Albacete]], [[Francoist Spain|Spain]]
| father              = Fernando Castells Adriaensens
| mother              = Josefina Olivan Escartin
| residence           = 
| spouse              = Emma Kiselyova<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rantanen |first1=Terhi |title=The Message is the Medium |journal=Global Media and Communication |date=2005 |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=136|doi=10.1177/1742766505054629 |s2cid=141501784 }}</ref>
| alma_mater          = [[University of Paris]]
| known_for           = Research on the [[information society]], [[communication]] and [[globalization]]<br>[[Organization theory (Castells)|Organization theory]]<br>[[Network society]]
| website             = {{URL|www.manuelcastells.info/en}}
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| fields            = [[Sociology]], [[City planning|urban planning]], [[communication studies]]
| workplaces        = [[University of Cambridge]]; [[University of Southern California]]; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ([[Open University of Catalonia]]); [[EHESS]]; [[University of Paris X: Nanterre]]
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| doctoral_students = [[Ananya Roy]]<br/>[[Sasha Costanza-Chock]]
| notable_students  = [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]]
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| term_end            = 20 December 2021
| successor           = [[Joan Subirats]]
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'''Manuel Castells Oliván''' ({{IPA|ca|kəsˈteʎs|lang}}; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish [[sociology|sociologist]]. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled ''[[The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture]]''. He is a scholar of the [[information society]], [[communication]] and [[globalization]].

Castells is the full professor of [[sociology]], [[Open University of Catalonia|Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]] (UOC), in [[Barcelona]]. He is also the university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School of Communication, [[University of Southern California]], Los Angeles. Additionally, he is the professor emeritus of sociology and professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is also a fellow of St. John's College at the University of Cambridge and holds the chair of network society at Collège d’Études Mondiales, [[Paris]].

The 2000–2014 research survey of the [[Social Sciences Citation Index]] ranks him as the world's fifth most-cited social science scholar, and the foremost-cited communication scholar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manuelcastells.info/sites/default/files/sscisocialranking_eng.pdf|title=Relative Ranking of a Selected Pool of Leading Scholars in the Social Sciences by Number of Citations in the Social Science Citation Index, 2000–2014.|access-date=18 September 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307132846/http://www.manuelcastells.info/sites/default/files/sscisocialranking_eng.pdf|archive-date=7 March 2016}}</ref>

In 2012, Castells was awarded the [[Holberg Prize]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/kd/aktuelt/nyheter/2012/manuel-castells-mottok-holbergprisen-for.html?id=684672|title=Manuel Castells mottok Holbergprisen for 2012|work=Regjeringen.no|date=6 June 2012}}</ref> for having "shaped our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the [[network society]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.holbergprisen.no/en/manuel-castells.html|title=Manuel Castells|work=holbergprisen.no|access-date=13 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152148/http://www.holbergprisen.no/en/manuel-castells.html|archive-date=14 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2013, he was awarded the [[Balzan Prize]] for Sociology for "his wide-ranging and imaginative thinking through of the implications of the great technological changes of our time."<ref>{{cite web |title=Balzan Prize for Sociology |url=https://www.balzan.org/en/prizewinners/manuel-castells |website=International Balzan Prize Foundation |access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref>

In January 2020, he was appointed [[Ministry of Universities|Minister of Universities]] in the [[Sánchez II Government]] of [[Spain]],<ref name="Deputies">{{Cite journal|publisher=Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado|journal=Boletín Oficial del Estado |issue=11 |date=13 January 2020|language=es|title=Real Decreto 3/2020, de 12 de enero, sobre las Vicepresidencias del Gobierno|url=https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2020/01/13/pdfs/BOE-A-2020-411.pdf|issn=0212-033X|page=2877}}</ref> a position he held until his resignation in December 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Galaup|first=Irene Castro, Laura|date=2021-12-16|title=Joan Subirats sustituirá a Manuel Castells como ministro de Universidades|url=https://www.eldiario.es/politica/ministro-universidades-manuel-castells-sale-gobierno_1_8586458.html|access-date=2021-12-16|website=ElDiario.es|language=es}}</ref>