Africana Methodology
A Social Study of Research, Triangulation and Meta-theory
This book critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. The necessity of interpretive Afrocentric research is relevant to position agency and to locate Africana studies in place, space, and time. This study will provide readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and social science essays that describe and evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective. Paradoxically, the collection presents measurable and qualitative research, in order to flush out a global Pan–Africanist consciousness.
This volume critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. It provides readers with a compilation of essays that evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective.
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Case method teaching has long been recognized for its educational value. In classes, workshops, and seminars where case studies are used effectively, discussion participants gain knowledge and become more proficient in analyzing information. Case learning also increases tolerance for ambiguity and fosters deeper understanding of complicated issues. Beyond basic-level memorization of concepts and definitions, case learning encourages participants to engage in perspective-taking while analyzing and evaluating the communication behaviors of characters. Case learning promotes exploration of complex problems in ways that are creative, interactive, and engaging for both case learners…
This compilation of original case studies on communication and conflict resolution brings theory to life. Abstract concepts are presented as concrete characters, compelling you to think critically, apply principles, and analyze complex, real-world scenarios.
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In an age where the global rules-based world order faces significant challenges to maintaining peace and stability—with world superpowers jockeying to preserve their influence across multiple theatres of conflict—this book explores the major international laws and treaties governing the process of peace and reconciliation. Focusing on the conflicts in Afghanistan, Palestine-Israel and Kashmir, it examines and analyses these conflicts through the prism of international law, humanitarian norms, treaties, and conventions, interspersed with insights from the Islamic legal tradition. An innovative approach to the problem of conflict resolution is applied by…
This book examines conflicts in Afghanistan, Palestine-Israel, and Kashmir through the prism of international law and the Islamic legal tradition. Using comparative analysis, it proposes an innovative theo-diplomatic model for brokering peace and reconciliation.
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Building Cultures of Peace
Transdisciplinary Voices of Hope and Action
From violence and abuse within family units, to communities and regions torn apart by inter-group conflict and wars among nations, the human condition is rife with turmoil. The consequences of this seemingly perpetual strife weigh heavily on humanity, often creating feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness that only serve to breed more conflict and violence. In the face of these monumental challenges, initiatives for peace struggle to take root. Seeking effective ways to encourage these efforts, the United Nations adopted three declarations on the eve of the 21st century, including the…
In a world torn apart by conflict, from families to nations, how do we build a culture of peace? This volume of essays presents multiple perspectives from scholars and practitioners on fostering hope and creating peace in a conflict-ridden world.
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Japanese Sensibility and Oriental Wisdom
In Search of a New Lifestyle in the New Era
This book aims to provide a wider understanding of Japanese culture by showcasing Japan’s rich cultural and societal practices, which are often baffling for foreigners. Drawing on the author’s 40-year career as a diplomat, lecturer and writer, the volume takes a practical approach, offering unique insights into Japanese daily life for specialists and general readers alike. Featuring comparisons with Western cultural touchstones, this is the first book in English to propose a systematic examination of the twin concepts of Japanese sensibility and Oriental wisdom. It demystifies modern Japan, situating the…
Drawing on a 40-year career as a diplomat, this book demystifies Japanese culture. It is the first in English to examine the twin concepts of Japanese sensibility and Oriental wisdom, arguing for their vital role in fostering closer cooperation between East and West.
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Understanding Media Propaganda in the 21st Century
Manufacturing Consent Revisited and Revised
First published in 1988, Herman and Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent remains the go-to book for those interested in understanding why the mainstream media act as vehicles for power-elite propaganda. The analytical heart of Manufacturing Consent lies in what it calls ‘The Propaganda Model.’ According to this model, there are five filters which all newsworthy stories have to pass through before reaching the public sphere. However, a lot has changed in the subsequent thirty-something years. Consequently, a key question that needs to be addressed is whether Manufacturing Consent is still…
Is Manufacturing Consent still fit for purpose? This book argues that the 2016 election created a ‘year zero’ for journalism, requiring an overhaul of Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model. It is a radical intervention, offering a new model to understand media propaganda.
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Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism
Rethinking the Past for New Conviviality
This volume gathers together reflections on racism and nationalism, empowerment and futurity. It focuses on collective amnesia in regards to traumatic events of the European past and the ways in which memory and history are presented for the future. The essays cover and oppose the seemingly disparate genocides committed during Belgian colonialism, Austrian antisemitism and turbo-nationalism in “Republika Srpska” (Bosnia and Herzegovina), implying by no means a homogenization of the experiences. What connects these historical situations is the fact that, despite available documents, to this very day, nation-states…
This volume explores how racism and nationalism are shaped by collective amnesia. Essays connect disparate genocides, from Belgian colonialism to Bosnia, to show how nation-states are built on practices of oblivion, demanding we critically rethink the past for a new future.
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This volume examines the effects of the decolonization of communication studies. It shows that the discipline has undergone a rapid paradigm shift since the launching of the Ferment in the Field special edition of the Journal of Communication, in which scholars were called upon to rethink the field because of the crisis it was facing.
This volume examines the decolonization of communication studies. It shows that the discipline underwent a rapid paradigm shift after scholars were called upon to rethink the field in the face of a crisis.
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Israeli and Palestinian Collective Narratives in Conflict
A Tribute to Shifra Sagy and Her Work
Examining the “social laboratory” of the Israeli and Palestinian societies to better understand social conflicts and the construction of diverse and conflicting collective narratives, this book gives readers a window into Professor Shifra Sagy’s unique approach to intergroup conflicts and peace education. With a focus on both theory and practice, it describes the model of perceptions of collective narratives that she developed with her colleagues. The contributions here offer insight into the intergroup conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians, Palestinian Muslims and Christians, Jewish ‘National Religious’ and people of…
In the “social laboratory” of Israeli and Palestinian societies, conflicting collective narratives often create obstacles to peace. This book presents a unique approach that transforms these narratives from barriers into powerful tools for promoting reconciliation.
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It is entirely appropriate that this book should be produced in Dundalk. Located on the Northern rim of the Irish Pale, this town has straddled a border for centuries. Over the past thirty years, it has come to be closely identified with violent Republicanism both by the Unionist community in Northern Ireland and by Constitutional Nationalists in the South. Against such a hostile background academics attached to the Institute of Technology there have bravely confronted and interrogated these processes which have so blighted the history not only of Dundalk but…
This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.
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Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice
Toward a Pedagogy of Moral Reasoning
This book explores the normative dimensions of peace studies and peace education through the lens of moral and political philosophy. The purpose is to explore the idea of peace as a matter of justice, and to articulate a pedological framework for the development and exercise of citizens’ capacities for moral reasoning and judgment regarding potential responses to the basic questions of justice, including resisting injustice. The just conditions necessary for peace are contingent upon the informed participation of democratic citizens who are capable of becoming dynamic agents of justice. The…
This book explores peace as a matter of justice. It argues that a just peace requires citizens capable of moral reasoning and judgment. It offers a framework to develop these capacities, empowering us to resist injustice and realize peace on all levels of society.
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This exciting new textbook is a compilation of communication case studies that identify the most salient issues regarding communication about sex in relationships. The text provides a basis for developing tangible communication skills, clearer understandings of how interpersonal concepts and theories play into practice, and an examination of ideas not often considered by students. Understanding interpersonal communication elements of sexual relationships is an indispensable component of any model of an overall healthy human sexual development. Moreover, being able to transform such understandings into practice in relationships is a leap toward…
This compilation of 21 case studies from leading researchers explores communication about sex in relationships. It provides tangible skills to improve relationships, encourage safer sex, and navigate difficult topics like media, health, and culture.
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This innovative collection emphasises the contribution of women to the resolution of conflicts through the means of nonviolent tools. It discusses their achievements and their tactics, bringing together international scholars to draw on intersectionality as an important methodological tool in the analysis of the work of many outstanding women from diverse countries such as Yemen, Nigeria, Russia, India and the USA. The focus of this volume is the impact of women successfully building peace though nonviolent means. It also provides a study of how, and why, gender matters in the…
This collection highlights the contribution of women to conflict resolution using nonviolent tools. International scholars draw on intersectionality to analyze the achievements of outstanding women from countries such as Yemen, Nigeria, and the USA, showing why gender matters.
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Semiotics and Visual Communication III
Cultures of Branding
The chapters in this book consist of selected papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference and Poster Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology in November 2017. They investigate the theme of the third conference, “The Semiotics of Branding”, and look at branding and brand design as endorsing a reputation and inhabiting a status of almost mythical proportion that has triumphed over the past few decades. Emerging from its forerunner (corporate identity) to incorporate advertising, consumer lifestyles and attitudes, image-rights, market-research, customisation, global…
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.
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Media Rhetoric
How Advertising and Digital Media Influence Us
This volume considers the paramount implications to persuasive communication that media brought regarding how we think, express, argue and feel together. It is concerned with both the media practice of rhetoric activity and the rhetorical practice of media activity: it considers how the media integrated rhetorical speech, and analyses how rhetoric adapted to media societies. Media and rhetoric are highly dependent on each other because, to persuasively communicate today, media must also be considered. The book is about how the media alter the ways we talk, discuss, argue and convince.…
This volume considers how media alters persuasive communication—how we think, argue, and feel. Focusing on advertising and digital media, scholars from around the world demonstrate how persuasive speech is exerted in, through, and by the media in the 21st century.
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The second scientific World Kurdish Congress was held in October 2012 at Hewler with the theme of improving the quality of life, science and culture for progress in Kurdistan. The papers presented focused on various important aspects of culture, economy, education, health, industry and political science in Kurdistan. The objective of this conference was to create a network of academicians to exchange and develop knowledge and work together with the Kurdistan Regional Government on how to further enhance the progress within the Kurdish society. This volume is a collection of…
This volume is a collection of studies from the World Kurdish Congress, focusing on improving the quality of life, science, and culture for progress in Kurdistan. Topics cover health, education, politics, and industry, concluding with recommendations to the government.
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Computer-Mediated Communication for Business
Theory to Practice
This collection is a guide to greater communication efficiency in both clarity and time-management for any professional or aspiring professional. It guides the reader through the ways in which communicating through technology rather than face-to-face can alter their perceptions of others and the perceptions others make of them. Each chapter concisely summarizes existing studies from the fields of communication, psychology, philosophy, and engineering to lead the audience to very practical guidelines to make their professional communication world easier and more efficient. The book is divided into three sections. The first…
A guide to communication efficiency for professionals. Learn how communicating through technology alters perceptions and get practical guidelines from studies in communication, psychology, and engineering to make your professional world easier and more efficient.
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Computation, Information, Cognition
The Nexus and the Liminal
This book draws together a number of important strands in contemporary approaches to the philosophical and scientific questions that emerge when dealing with the issues of computing, information, cognition and the conceptual issues that arise at their intersections. It discovers and develops the connections at the borders and in the interstices of disciplines and debates, and presents a range of essays that deal with the currently vigorous concerns of the philosophy of information, ontology creation and control, bioinformation and biosemiotics, computational and post- computational ap- proaches to the philosophy of…
This book explores the philosophical and scientific questions at the intersections of computing, information, and cognition through essays on bioinformation, cognitive science, ontology, computational linguistics, ethics, and education.
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Music and literature have often been interconnected through the centuries. This is an intellectual and spiritual marriage between two artistic worlds, which are both part of a creative system that lends voice to one another. As this book argues, while music is one single form of expression, literature can be expressed in the form of either poetry or prose. However, they find their apotheosis, their most natural relationship, when poetry is set to music, especially when it is lyrical and has similar phrasing and rhythms to music. The book, thus,…
Music and literature are an intellectual and spiritual marriage. They find their apotheosis when poetry is set to music, forming a complementary entity where music offers perspective to literature, and literature gives words to the feelings music arouses.
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Umberto Eco’s Semiotics
Theory, Methodology and Poetics
This text explores four books produced by one of the most prominent semioticians of the previous century, Umberto Eco, in order to create a semiotic meta-theory which enhances a multifarious way of “readability” and scientifically justifies the dichotomy between the creation of a work of art and its being read, visualized and experienced by the audience. It begins by treating the “narration” component as one of the main theoretical challenges of Eco’s theory, specifically focusing on the concept of time, seen from the linguistic and semiotic viewpoints. The book also…
This book explores Umberto Eco’s theories on narration, encoding, and decoding to forge a new meta-theory of “interpretative semiotics.” It analyzes the collaborative relationship between the creator of a work of art and the audience who reads, visualizes, and experiences it.
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