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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Intercultural Communication in Post-Pandemic and Dystopian Times
This essay turns intercultural concepts inside out, pointing out their shortcomings and dissecting the real obstacles to communication: identitarianisms, tribal meanings, and exclusionary differences. It is a call for us to become culturally resilient and readjust our mirrors.