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Media and The City
Urbanism, Technology and Communication
Our age is defined by urbanism and communication, but how are they intertwined? This volume presents the latest cross-disciplinary research on their relationship, scrutinizing issues of conflict, art, identity, and mobility in urban space.
Our age is defined by urbanism and communication, but how are they intertwined? This volume presents the latest cross-disciplinary research on their relationship, scrutinizing issues of conflict, art, identity, and mobility in urban space.
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Leading international researchers present cutting-edge studies on the public understanding of science and informal education. With global case studies, this book challenges traditional notions, arguing for approaches that recognize a multiplicity of publics.
Leading international researchers present cutting-edge studies on the public understanding of science and informal education. With global case studies, this book challenges traditional notions, arguing for approaches that recognize a multiplicity of publics.
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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.
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.
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Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space
A Case Study of Women in Panchayats of Orissa, India
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.
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.
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Science, Democracy and Relativism
The Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge from the Viewpoint of Communitarian Epistemology
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Semiotics and Visual Communication
Concepts and Practices
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 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.
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How We Are Governed
Investigations of Communication, Media and Democracy
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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Behavioural Science for Students of Science and Technology
African Socio-Cultural cum Techno-Economic Development
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?
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?
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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.
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.
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The New European Frontiers
Social and Spatial (Re)Integration Issues in Multicultural and Border Regions
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 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.
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Cultivating Peace
Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models
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.
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.
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Intercultural Communication Competence
Conceptualization and its Development in Cultural Contexts and Interactions
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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