This book explores the decision-making of two social movements in Italy and Quebec. Their process suggests ways to decide collectively which are more inclusive, can reduce conflict, and improve participation—offering a democratic approach to open doors to those not yet included.
Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources
Are natural resources limited, or does demand create its own supply? This book rejects these opposing views and offers a new theory to fundamentally change the way we think about resources, diversity, discontinuity, and the future of humanity.
Deriving from a conference on work and family, this book focuses on technology, managers, globalization, and gender, analysing the state of global affairs. It offers new approaches to how technology, globalization, managers and gender issues affect the work and family balance.
Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics
How the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics, is explored here. The text invites a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities.
Trumpism
This collection by scholars and activists focuses on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump as it relates to gender. Chapters explore Trump’s hyper-masculine posturing, the effect on marginalized populations and survivors of sexual assault, and how to teach and parent in this era.
Media Agoras
This collection of essays presents up-to-date perspectives on the media’s role in constructing a more inclusive society. From theoretical debates to empirical analyses, this book presents a critical overview of crucial debates in contemporary European societies.
A Malaysian Study of Mixed Methods
Roosli and O’Keefe focus on how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a research project. This approach, which is detailed here, is called ‘Triangulation’; a plan, structure and investigation strategy used to obtain answers to problems from an earlier stage.
A World Beyond Global Disorder
This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.
This book examines the intersection of political leadership, media coverage, and sexual identity, with emphasis on the negotiation between public and private behavior. Centering on key cases, each chapter questions assumptions about media coverage of same-sex behavior.
Bonds Across Borders
This collection of essays by leading scholars crosses national and cultural boundaries to explore the relationship between women, gender, and international relations, examining the contributions of diplomats, activists, businesswomen, and more.
Wilkes follows the development of modern State theory, from Gramsci and Nicos Poulantzas to Stuart Hall and Pierre Bourdieu. He provides the reader with a fresh interpretation of these very important ideas, allowing a clear and precise interpretation of the original texts.
Marronnage and Arts
Marronnage, the quest for freedom during Slavery, has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. This book explores how revolt is incarnated in bodies and voices through music and dance, from the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil.
International Migration in the 21st Century
This anthology tackles the problems surrounding international migration, raising the question of the reasons for, and consequences of, being a migrant in the 21st century. Some of the issues it investigates include migrant identities, integration, voting behavior and citizenship.
Those in favour of an independent Scotland present their fight as a means to a socio-economic end. But is it all really that simple? This text explores the overlooked difficulties, from redefining national solidarity to the delicate issues of state building.
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
This text asks if there are any lessons that Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners. It proposes that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past.
This title presents an analysis of core issues such as the role of the media in educating, protecting and promoting human rights, and the challenges facing the media and human rights. It also contains suggestions and measures to increase awareness on human rights.
Press, Propaganda and Politics
This study compares media in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, revealing startling similarities in the propaganda of two opposing regimes. It challenges old paradigms and forges a new, unified framework for understanding totalitarian systems.
Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 Volume 1
This volume explores the global cultural and literary effects of 9/11. It examines the representation of Islam, political and psychological dilemmas, and asks if 9/11 was a historical disruption or a catalyst for escalating existing stereotypes.
Scottish Devolution and Social Policy
This work examines the impact of devolution on Scottish social policy. Considering issues like class and equality, it judges whether the founding principles of the Scottish Parliament have successfully transferred from principles into actual policy.