Civilisation and Fear
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
Co-operatives in a Global Economy
In the global economy, cooperatives face a trade-off between their principles and economic viability. Critics argue they are irrelevant, while advocates see a sustainable, equitable alternative. This collection examines the debate about their future roles.
The coexistence of humanity and the environment demands a symbiotic relationship where neither side dominates the other. This book continues the author’s work, discussing our systemic coexistence based on the concept of equilibrium development and regulated consumption.
Collision
Interdisciplinary art has been largely ignored. This collection charts the radical explosion of interarts practices, exploring collisions of body, technology, space, and aesthetics, alongside perspectives from law, political activism, and spirituality.
Community Forestry in Western Indian Himalaya
Born from resistance to British colonial rule, the Van Panchayat is India’s unique community forest management system. For the first time, this book compiles all published work on the institution, exploring its history, policy, ecology, and social dimensions.
Complexity Sciences
Recent world events demand new scientific approaches to address complex social dynamics. Sociocybernetics embraces this challenge. This book addresses the interaction between multiple systems, using theoretical and methodological sociocybernetic approaches.
Computation, Information, Cognition
This book explores the philosophical and scientific questions at the intersections of computing, information, and cognition through essays on bioinformation, cognitive science, ontology, computational linguistics, ethics, and education.
Computer-Mediated Communication for Business
A guide to communication efficiency for professionals. Learn how communicating through technology alters perceptions and get practical guidelines from studies in communication, psychology, and engineering to make your professional world easier and more efficient.
Concerning Peace
Is utopian peace a failed ideal, or an omnipresent reality? This collection of essays investigates these questions through concrete examples from metaphysics, politics, history, and culture. For anyone who refuses to accept the world as it is.
Conflict Analysis and Transformation
This book is a concise guide on how to analyze and address conflict to transform relationships and work towards peace with justice. It details a systematic process and offers a framework to build cultures of peace, based on a critical analysis of hegemony and power.
Conflict Prevention and Management in Northeast Asia
Leading scholars offer a comparative analysis of two of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints: the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait. This volume examines new strategies for conflict prevention, identifying lessons that could be transferred between cases.
Conflict Reporting Strategies and the Identities of Ethnic and Religious Communities in Jos, Nigeria
This book examines journalistic strategies in reporting the ethnic and religious conflict in Jos, Nigeria. Placing media logics at the heart of the conflict, it proposes Solutions-Review Journalism as a new framework for conflict reporting.
Conflict Veterans
Returnees from violent conflicts belong to their societies as much as any other distinct social group. This volume brings together experts on veteran studies whose views present a variety of sociological, anthropological and military perspectives on contemporary veteran cultures.
Conflict, Learning and Sustainable Peacebuilding
Learn to “CL&SP” moments of conflict for a deeper understanding of sustainable peacebuilding. This book draws on powerful examples from around the world—from reconciliation in South Africa to peace efforts in the Americas, Israel and Palestine—to shine a light forward.
This book provides an inter-disciplinary, global perspective on conflict, violence, and terrorism. It explores the conditions by which violent conflict occurs and examines concrete, multi-faceted solutions. Violence is neither inevitable nor innately determined.
Conscientious Branding
In today’s values-driven world, brands must go beyond profits. This book unpacks conscientious branding—aligning business with societal values to build trust and success. Through case studies and practical frameworks, it provides a roadmap to create lasting positive impact.
Contemporary Issues in Africa’s Development
This text reports on the state of crisis in Africa in the early twenty-first century. It questions ideologically protected assumptions, presenting Africa as it is, because it is only by knowing where Africa truly stands that a proper direction can be charted for it.
Containing chapters from both Turkish- and Greek-Cypriots, as well as outside scholars, this volume explores the difficulty of producing viable constitutional and civic arrangements in an ethnically-divided polity.
Contributions to Communicational, Cultural, Media, and Digital Studies
How does communication shape our world? This book explores the powerful dialectic between society and media in the digital age. A key text for cultural and media studies, it offers tools to understand a social force as inevitable as it is influential.
This book explores Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), highlighting its concepts, business principles, and practices with a special emphasis on India. It exhibits cases of successful businesses where CSR has enabled them to achieve sustainable targets.