Policy Analysis for Big Issues
In a world grappling with corruption and inequality, this book is a beacon of hope with practical solutions. From Harvard to the Himalayas, its real-world examples and actionable insights equip readers with the inspiration needed to ignite transformative change.
Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice
This book explores peace as a matter of justice. It argues that a just peace requires citizens capable of moral reasoning and judgment. It offers a framework to develop these capacities, empowering us to resist injustice and realize peace on all levels of society.
Resolving the China-US Conflicts
Countering the Thucydides’ Trap, this book offers a new theory of intercultural communication to resolve China-US conflicts. It argues that deeply-rooted bonds between the peoples can overcome a zero-sum mentality and lead to mutual benefits instead of an inevitable war.
This book contextualises Nigerian cultural history as an instrument for sustainable development. While Nigeria’s rich past defines its present, its potential as inspiration for development is ignored, leaving the country vulnerable to repeating past mistakes.
The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America
This book explores the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Latin America, highlighting its challenges and possibilities. It analyzes solidarity alternatives in the capital market and the emergencies that occur in order to humanize the capitalist system.
Rethinking (In)Security in the European Union
This book demonstrates how Europe’s new security agenda has trapped immigrants, particularly the Roma, in a spiral of insecurity. With migration treated as a major threat, they have become scapegoats, in a case that challenges the EU to rethink its social responsibilities.
America’s project to privatize the world’s resources via the dollar is igniting a nationalist backlash. As these forces clash, the entire global system faces a greater, existential threat: climate change.
Writing as Performance
This volume finds an outlet in autoethnography, creating authentic relations between scholars and their writing. It explores new relationships forced into being by the pandemic, as authors describe personal experiences that shed light upon wider cultural and social dynamics.
Writing Research Differently
This book challenges the notion of the empirical research article as a neutral form. Analyzing texts from engaged research, it reveals how authors resist scientific conventions and proposes a re-imagined article to advance social and cognitive justice in scholarly communication.
This book assesses mobile technology for development (M4D) and how it addresses socio-economic challenges. It explores the tension between success reports and on-the-ground failures, identifying the real obstacles to affordable technologies that can effect development.
Discourses in Traffic
As China became a nation of drivers, it encountered immense traffic-related problems. This book zeroes in on the authentic discourses in Chinese traffic, demonstrating the interaction between signs and new drivers in Guangzhou to reveal the country’s shift to modern traffic.
This book explores how intercommunal conflicts in Ile-Ife and Modakeke turned youths into both security assets and liabilities. Understanding militarised youths with limited opportunities provides a sound basis for policy to solve security problems in Nigeria and elsewhere.
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration among the Intelligence Community, Academy, and Industry
This book analyzes the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS), a collaboration between intelligence, academia, and industry. It details practical lessons for developing cross-sector partnerships to create innovative solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.
Media, the State and Marginalisation
Containing twenty-one chapters, this title deals with Indian perspectives in relation to the media, the state and the marginalized sections of society. It will be of interest to academics, scholars and students of social sciences, and those working in the media industry.
This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion of the “absolute”. The question here is not what the absolute is, but what possibilities exist with regard to perceiving and conceptualizing it in human terms.
Indian Agriculture
Population explosions have always pushed India into deep-rooted socio-economic bottlenecks. Nookathoti highlights the causes of and solutions to the prevalence of hunger at the grassroots level, analysing the supply-side background behind the accomplishment of food security.
The ‘New’ Documentary Nexus
The rise of digital media has caused paradigm shifts in documentary. This book explores central questions about interactive documentary, developing methods to analyze this dynamic field for documentary theorists, media scholars, and students of media and communication studies.
The essays collected here highlight new and exciting explorations of integrative approaches to the creative mind. This allows a unique and fresh look at the concept of creativity, creative cognition, and innovation.
Africana Methodology
This volume critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. It provides readers with a compilation of essays that evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective.
The Inter-Processual Self
How should we understand the self, as well as personal, relational and systemic growth? This volume proposes a radical new way of answering this question, resting on a non-representational theory of knowledge on how to approach and comprehend the self and action more broadly.