The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.
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.
Resilient Territories
As recent crises challenge territories, what makes them resilient? This book advances the scientific agenda on regional resilience, innovation, and creativity, informing policy-makers about new modes of development for adapting to external shocks.
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.
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.
Rethinking Development in South Asia
This book challenges conventional development in South Asia, revealing how it can be a destructive force. It argues for a new practice of development centered on people’s freedom, choice, and participation, proposing alternative means for achieving greater well-being.
This volume on the evolving nature of peacebuilding addresses timely questions: How are methods selected? Is violence acceptable? Contributions evaluate the effectiveness of historical and current peacebuilding efforts, offering cutting edge work in peace and conflict studies.
Rhetoric and Politics
This volume offers systematic, theoretically grounded insights into the flow of persuasion that constitutes politics today. Combining various disciplines, the case studies provide an empirically rich account of politics as a persuasive achievement.
Rule of Law through Human Rights and International Criminal Justice
As a jurist, diplomat, and activist, Adama Dieng has inspired a generation with his commitment to human rights and the rule of law, especially in Africa. In this collection of essays, friends and colleagues honour his life’s work for a better Africa and a better world.
Sacred Space
Sacred space within contemporary contexts has received scant attention. This collection of interdisciplinary essays presents a new perspective on an important theological and philosophical concept.
Sapphists and Sexologists contributes to the debates on lesbian lives and histories. This international collection features reflections by author Emma Donoghue, an exclusive conversation with Joan Nestle, and scholars questioning established sexual histories.
Scale, Governance and Change in Zambezi Teak Forests
This monograph provides an in-depth examination of the Zambezi Teak forests of western Zambia which have been exploited for their timber for over 80 years, providing unique insights into problems around land use and governance in south-central Africa.
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.
New narratives are produced from what was once overlooked as mundane. Decades ago, historian Fernand Braudel called for more research into everyday life. This volume is a response to that call for more synthesis, analysis, discussion, and extension.
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.
Semiotics and Visual Communication III
This book investigates the Semiotics of Branding, a status of almost mythical proportion that has triumphed over the past few decades. From tribal markers to national flags, a form of branding is at work that responds to the need for interaction through shared codes of meaning.
Semiotics and Visual Communication IV
Inspired by Roland Barthes, this book explores today’s myths. It examines how daily life and consumer culture—from cinema and sports to online networks and fashion—are socially constructed signs, shaped by global mass communication and visual culture.
Sense of Emptiness
The absence of something can be as significant as its presence, impacting how we perceive the world. While the perception of presence is universal, the prominence of absence—or emptiness—varies across cultures. This volume identifies what emptiness is like.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Thoughts and Visions
As the architect of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s ideals resonate with figures like Gandhi, MLK Jr., and Mandela. This book reveals how his vision for peace, emancipation, and development drove his unwavering commitment to freedom and his ambition for a “Sonar Bangla.”
Signs, Codes, Spaces, and Arts
This book delves into general and spatial semiotics, introducing the “sign prism,” an integrative model of sign connection. It focuses on spatial semiotics and its visual codes, applying these concepts to research the structures and historical changes of visual arts.