One Paradigm, Many Worlds
One Paradigm, Many Worlds surveys collaborative, “win-win” conflict resolution across disciplines. It challenges traditional “win-lose” paradigms, documenting the merits of this approach in fields from education and human services to international relations.
Popular Media and Communication
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
Betraying the Event
This volume offers a critical reconsideration of victimhood, exposing its cultural and political constructions. It examines how language can be manipulated to devise a vicious reversal of victim/victimizer positions, raising awareness of the consequences.
Undisciplined Animals
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
Is scientific forecasting of the future possible? The authors of this book are convinced it is. Using rigorous methodology and mathematical modeling, leading experts demonstrate what the world will look like in the coming decades and centuries.
Locality, Memory, Reconstruction
This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.
The Future of Asian Feminisms
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
Mapping the Tribal Economy
India’s tribes have been marginalised, their way of life transformed. This book examines the critical issues of land alienation and labour exploitation, focusing on tribal mobilisation and the fight for justice and restoration in Andhra Pradesh.
For each inhabitant there is another Istanbul, created from their own experiences. This book gathers researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the city’s real and imaginary borders, asking the ultimate question: Whose city is it?
Rethinking Asian Tourism
Written primarily by Asians, this volume challenges Western-centric views on tourism. It explores established and emerging themes—from heritage to popular culture—to develop a new, ‘Asianised’ understanding of tourism in the region.
Binaries in Battle
Binary opposition – Us vs. Them, good vs. evil – is fundamental to human thinking in peace and war. This wide-ranging anthology explores conflicts from history to the near future, deconstructing black-and-white imageries to reveal softer shades of grey.
This title presents pioneering research on the impact of new media on the Palestinian Diaspora, and is the result of unprecedented access to the Palestinian community in the UK. It explores issues of politics, conflict resolution and life experiences of the Palestinian people.
Participation, Culture and Democracy
The underlying question of this compendium focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It investigates how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.
Exploring Research in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy
These detailed, yet concise, essays on the nature of sports coaching provide a critical ‘snapshot’ of the current literature in coaching pedagogy. They cover a wide array of sports and techniques and their insights are essential for any serious students of the discipline.
Inspired by a pantheist worldview, this text advocates an alternative globalization based not on the economy and politics, but on humanity’s transcendence to a collective consciousness, presenting a counter-trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism.
Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
The struggle of birds for freedom mirrors that of women. This work explores the complex, often contradictory relationship between humans and birds—from inspiration to oppression. Through feminist and animal rights lenses, it inspires a keener sense of environmental care.
This collection offers a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities of globalization for youth in Africa and its diaspora. It issues a call for action to governments to tap into the energy of its youth through education, agriculture, sport, and technology.
Religious Messages in the Media
Can religious messages be transmitted through the media? This book analyzes the relationship between media and religion, arguing that media can only convey religious messages superficially and are unsuitable for mediating deep spiritual content or evangelization.
Luxury and American Consumer Culture
This book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture, with case studies on how it affects our choices of automobiles, homes, and hotels. Adopting a global perspective, it also features analyses of luxury in China, Germany, Russia, and other countries.