Researching the Stereotypes of People Around Me
This textbook guides international students with little prior experience through writing a research thesis on stereotypes. It uses a hands-on project to develop essential skills in qualitative research, critical analysis, and thesis structuring.
Being Quantum
This collection offers perspectives on organizational development inspired by quantum physics. Based on interconnectedness and entanglement, chapters address concepts of time, space, matter, and spirituality to bring quantum storytelling to life.
Conflicts in Africa, from complex wars to community disputes, share common dynamics. This volume shows that lessons in conflict resolution are applicable across all scales, offering case studies and new ideas for peace, justice, and security in Africa.
This book analyses the changing notion of human rights from legal-political, socio-economic, gender, and ecological perspectives. Focusing on its relevance in an era of globalization, it presents a unique combination of theoretical and practical studies.
Intercultural Communication Competence
Leading international scholars map out a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of intercultural communication competence. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and is a useful source for educators, researchers, students, and professionals.
Cultivating Peace
This book embraces a new approach: cultivating peace. Using global case studies, its narratives offer constructive lessons on preventing violence, restoring shattered societies, and creating positive change through nonviolent, locally-driven initiatives.
The New European Frontiers
This inter-disciplinary book explores Europe’s new frontiers, examining complex social and spatial integration in multicultural border regions. It shows how context shapes the meaning of borders and how cooperation can give a new role to local communities.
This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary exploration of the intertwined relationships between addiction, culture, and performance, moving beyond single-discipline approaches to generate a more complex, politicised understanding of addiction.
Behavioural Science for Students of Science and Technology
Science and technology, while immersed in the enthusiasm for success, can neglect negative human and social effects. Socio-cultural values are essential for curbing this rashness. Could an African example temper past world mistakes and show the benefit of caution?
This collection of essays explores the complex interaction between the verbal and the visual across literature, painting, film, and comics. Spanning four centuries, these works re-think the very acts of reading and viewing.
This multi-faceted account reveals the complex foundations of conflicts between north and south, and recently within South Sudan itself. Hopes for a new democratic society have devolved to dysfunction as both nations face grave problems in security and stability.
This collection of essays offers interdisciplinary perspectives on social sciences from researchers across three continents. It explores Human Resources Management, International Relations, and Sociology, appealing to educators, researchers, and students.
How We Are Governed
How We Are Governed explores relations between communication and politics, from formal policy to the informal negotiation of power. It examines how communicative practices and technologies shape our world, asking whether these arrangements are truly democratic.
Semiotics and Visual Communication
This book explores how semiotic theory can be applied to visual communication practice. Featuring contributions on design, media, and the visual arts, it is an essential asset for anyone interested in semiotics from both a theoretical and applied view.
This collection of essays explores how New Yorkers sought meaning in the 9/11 attacks a decade on. Contributors contest the dominant narrative to focus on local experiences of memory, recovery, and rebuilding, and the challenge of representing the event.
Popular models of intercultural communication are insufficient for today’s multicultural experiences. This collection of articles offers new insights, critical evaluations, and new constructions for understanding the relationship between communication and culture.
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.
Science, Democracy and Relativism
This book argues that scientific knowledge is relative, produced by consensus. This is good for democracy, as it views knowledge as a matter of deliberation, not discovery. For democracy to flourish, the public must co-author, co-produce and co-own science.
Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space
A 1992 quota thrust rural Indian women into politics. This book reveals how they negotiated their new roles, converting the strong patriarchal set-up into a support system and achieving social and economic empowerment.
These essays explore how social identities like gender, race, and nation are imagined, performed, and questioned in literature, cinema, and visual culture. They also address identity in utopian and dystopian thought, imagining futures for belonging.