Gaps and the Creation of Ideas
An Artist’s Book
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist’s Book is a portrait of the space between things, whether they be neurons, quotations, comic-book frames, or fragments in a collage. This twenty-year project is an artist’s book that juxtaposes quotations and images from hundreds of artists and writers with the author’s own thoughts. Using Adobe InDesign® for composition and layout, the author has structured the book to show analogies among disparate texts and images. There have always been gaps, but a focus on the space between things is virtually synonymous with…
This artist’s book is a portrait of the space between things, from neurons to comic-book frames. Juxtaposing quotations and images from hundreds of sources, it explores the gap as a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, art, and popular culture.
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This book covers recent advances for quantitative researchers with practical examples from the social sciences. It provides essential information on important issues such as tourism, geography, history, sociology, politics, economy and sport sciences. Each chapter offers a comprehensive range of practical ideas and examples, and all topics are covered by an expert in the field in question. This volume will enable readers to realize that what they see as specific to their own discipline is, in fact, common to several different fields.
This book covers recent advances for quantitative researchers with practical examples from the social sciences. Each chapter, written by an expert, reveals ideas and methods common to fields such as tourism, politics, and sociology.
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This collection of chapters takes a departure from western prescripts to community development. It sheds light on adopting tested and tried Afrocentric methods to community development. The book draws lessons from African methods of communal unity for the common good. It gives details of African models of community development and how they were used before modernisation. The book also provides an overview of how these models are essential for governments to incorporate them into their development models. The importance of this book thus lies in the fact that it focuses…
This book departs from western prescripts to shed light on tested Afrocentric methods for community development. It draws lessons from African models of communal unity to show how governments can enhance their development models to reduce poverty and unemployment.
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Development as Service
Worldviews, Law and Sustainable Development Goals
This refreshing account of comparative wellbeing perspectives of the Global South of Ubuntu, Buen Vivir and Gross National Happiness sheds a new light on sustainable development debates, arguing for the notion of culture underlying all development. Instead of Development as Freedom, it proposes Development as Service, centering around reciprocity. The central Sustainable Development Goals perspective of “Leaving no-one behind” and sustainable growth is still caught in the development logic of linear growth, individualism, and the hierarchy of developed versus developing states. This book is a must read for philosophers who…
This account of Global South wellbeing perspectives like Ubuntu and Buen Vivir sheds new light on sustainable development. It critiques the logic of linear growth and individualism, proposing a new path: Development as Service, centered on reciprocity and culture.
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This book includes revised dissertation chapters from the author’s (second) PhD, which was awarded in 2020 by Murdoch University, Australia. It also includes three chapters summarising recent developments. This was an innovative, transdisciplinary, research project, using phenomenology as the over-arching meta-paradigm. The investigation involved collaborations and literature reviews across numerous disciplines, including philosophy, geography, ethnoecology, sociology and cultural studies. The book discusses three landscape language (ethnophysiography) case studies with Indigenous peoples in Australia and the USA. It features a detailed discussion of transdisciplinarity and provides a comprehensive example…
This innovative, transdisciplinary book uses phenomenology to explore complex dwelling relationships. It discusses landscape language case studies with Indigenous peoples in Australia and the USA, showing how different cultures turn terrain into landscape.
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Semiotics and Visual Communication IV
Myths of Today
The chapters in this book consist of selected papers which investigate the theme of ‘Myths Today’, paying homage to the notion of myth as defined by Roland Barthes in the late 1950’s which provided a theoretical framework under which daily habits, as well as consumer practices, can be examined as socially constructed signs, idealized through verbal narratives. While ‘myth is a type of speech’, it is also a type of image; typeface, cinema, photography, sports, online networks, politics, TV shows, sound, and fashion can all serve as groundwork for mythical…
Inspired by Roland Barthes, this book explores today’s myths. It examines how daily life and consumer culture—from cinema and sports to online networks and fashion—are socially constructed signs, shaped by global mass communication and visual culture.
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The book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of teacher education and analyses its concepts, ideas, notions, theories, debates and practices. In this, the journey of the development of teacher education in the global context and the policy journey of teacher education in India is traced in an interesting manner. Several dimensions of teacher education are revisited with a view to compel the readers to reflect upon alternate ways of looking at them. An examination of how the underlying socio-political factors affect teacher education, the initial preparation of teachers…
This book provides a comprehensive overview of teacher education, analysing its concepts, debates, and practices. It compels readers to reflect on alternate views and the socio-political factors affecting the field. An essential reading for students, teachers, and policymakers.
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Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities
For Radical Change
This volume takes as its starting point the question of whether there is a pluriversal generation, a younger group of scholars who do not necessarily collaborate or know each other, but who are currently forming a radical structure that is viral in thought production and reflective on the current global recalibration of social relations, brought about by the necropolitical and necrocapitalist governmentality emerging worldwide. The 23 articles assembled in this volume transcend geographical boundaries, conceive of the world as a single entity, and develop strategies for radical change. They…
Is a pluriversal generation of scholars forming a radical structure to confront the necropolitical and necrocapitalist governmentality emerging worldwide? The articles in this volume transcend geographical boundaries to develop strategies for radical change.
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Translation Revisited
Contesting the Sense of African Social Realities
How realistic is it to expect translation to render the world intelligible in a context shaped by different historical trajectories and experiences? Can we rely on human universals to translate through the unique and specific webs of meaning that languages represent? If knowledge production is a kind of translation, then it is fair to assume that the possibility of translation has largely rested on the idea that Western experience is the repository of these human universals against the background of which different human experiences can be rendered intelligible. The problem…
This book critiques how knowledge of Africa has been produced. It argues that “translation” based on Western universalism—a claim used to justify imperial expansion—became an attempt to change local norms, institutions, and spiritual values.
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The book summarizes the results of research on developments and experimental studies regarding cellular and tissue-engineered medical products (CTMP), including the results of original research conducted by its authors, as an alternative or temporary replacement for organ transplantation. The problems of choosing the scaffolds as extracellular matrix (ECM) mimetics and the sources of the CTMP cellular components, and finding optimal conditions for cell culturing while preserving their viability are considered. The possibility of using CTMPs both to stimulate the internal regeneration of the damaged tissue of cartilage, liver or pancreas,…
This book explores cellular and tissue-engineered medical products (CTMPs) as an alternative to organ transplantation. It presents a first-of-its-kind analysis of materials for regenerating liver, pancreas, and cartilage, with an abundance of specific examples for specialists.
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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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Keeping Peace in a Turbulent World
Reflections from the Field
This book shares the experiences of Bangladeshi and other UN peacekeepers serving in some of the world's most challenging and remote regions. With a shared commitment to restoring global peace and safeguarding vulnerable communities affected by conflicts and disasters, these 33 peacekeeping stories capture courage, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication. The book brings to life the extraordinary journeys of these peacekeepers, offering readers an intimate glimpse into the realities they face on the frontlines. Complementing the personal accounts, former senior leaders of UN peacekeeping operations share their valuable insights and perspectives,…
This book shares 33 stories of courage and sacrifice from UN peacekeepers serving in the world’s most challenging regions. With valuable insights from former senior UN leaders, these accounts offer an intimate glimpse into the realities faced on the frontlines.
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Beginning in the early 1990s, Africa has been experiencing a major ground swell of social, economic, and political changes. An array of declarations and communiqués notwithstanding, the crisis has forced indigenous peoples to become chronically dependent on international charity. This is one of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century. This book is a result of research conducted across Africa, beginning in 2003, that was invaluable in understanding the conditions and views of indigenous peoples who are the victims, rather than the beneficiaries, of land grabbing and infrastructure development.…
Africa’s indigenous peoples are the victims, rather than the beneficiaries, of land grabbing and infrastructure development. Based on research across Africa, this book highlights the impediments to their livelihoods and proposes local and regional actions to mitigate this crisis.
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This casebook highlights twenty actual, detailed, unique, and intriguing studies raising critical contemporary moral questions from several professions. Should we be worried about recent developments in artificial intelligence? How should scarce medical resources such as ventilators and vaccines be allocated during a pandemic? Can information from sports wearables be collected without violations of the right to privacy? Are human originality and creativity imperilled by ChatGPT? This book closely investigates these questions, plus a host of other vital ethical issues. As the moral world is messy, all of this book’s most…
Should we worry about artificial intelligence? How should scarce medical resources be allocated? Is creativity imperilled by ChatGPT? This casebook highlights twenty intriguing studies on vital ethical issues, offering a deeper look at the most fascinating challenges we face.
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Contemporary Issues in Africa’s Development
Whither the African Renaissance?
This volume reports on the state of crisis in Africa in the early twenty-first century. Africa, on the eve of the ‘independence revolution’, was the continent of hope and high expectations. By the third decade of independence, optimism had been replaced by dismality. African states had been beset by ethno-political squabbles, military rule, civil wars, Islamic and insurgent movements, extreme poverty and disease. With the ascent of redemocratization in the 1990s and of ‘new’ pan-Africanism derived from the formation of the African Union, Africa appeared set to claim its vaunted…
This text reports on the state of crisis in Africa in the early twenty-first century. It questions ideologically protected assumptions, presenting Africa as it is, because it is only by knowing where Africa truly stands that a proper direction can be charted for it.
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This book uses empirical data to articulate the issues of the Indian tribal economy in general and the role of minor forest produce in the tribal economy in particular. It throws new light on hitherto under-researched areas, especially those related to the significance of minor forest produce. This book is primarily based on the functioning of the tribal economy and draws on the experience gained by the author during his sojourn as a research scholar working the debt of tribal farmers and the technological gap in tribal agriculture. Empirical evidence…
This book uses empirical data to explore the Indian tribal economy, focusing on the vital role of minor forest produce. It throws new light on their contribution to tribal income and corroborates the deep dependency between the forest and tribal communities.
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The history of testing mental abilities has seen the dominance of two contrasting approaches, psychometrics and neuropsychology. These two traditions have different theories and methodologies, but overlap considerably in the tests they use. Historically, psychometrics has emphasized the primacy of a general factor, while neuropsychology has emphasized specific abilities that are dissociable. This issue about the nature of human mental abilities is important for many practical concerns. Questions such as gender, ethnic, and age-related differences in mental abilities are relatively easy to address if they are due to a single…
Is mental ability one general factor, as psychometrics claims, or many specific ones, as neuropsychology suggests? This debate has critical implications for education and social issues. This book gathers diverse experts to explore the nature of human mental abilities.
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This thorough account of wellbeing perspectives from Asian (Buddhist) Gross National Happiness sheds a new light on sustainability debates. It puts into question the universality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Its slogan, “Leave no-one behind,” begs the question of who is behind and who is ahead. Development is caught in the logic of linear “sustainable” growth of nations or centres around the flourishing of the individual instead of the community. "Respect all Sentient Beings" is the Buddhist approach. It centers around inner peace, harmony, generosity and compassion…
This book uses Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness to question the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It contrasts the logic of linear growth with the Buddhist approach of “Respect all Sentient Beings”—a model centered on community, compassion, and inner peace for all life.
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Land Grabbing and Conflict in the North West Region of Cameroon
An Endemic Situation, 1958-2017
In Cameroon, conflicts emerging from land ownership and boundary discrepancies have reached record heights with the North West Region serving as the theatre of land and boundary conflicts. These conflicts are not just rampant, but have taken shifting positions, making the much-cherished desire for peaceful cohabitation a far-fetched possibility. As this book shows, the ordinances of the 1970s which stopped traditional communities from making claims of ownership of land, the unwillingness of the traditional elite to understand and accept the arbitrary colonial imposed boundaries, and the dubious role…
In Cameroon’s North West Region, land conflicts have reached record heights. This book argues that these protracted conflicts are fueled by a colonial legacy, flawed land laws, and authorities’ failure to address the deep-rooted causes, making solving them an uphill task.
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Over fifty years ago, military takeovers in Africa exacerbated unconstitutional political transitions. The African Union (AU), founded in 2001, has significantly impacted African law by addressing illegal government changes. The AU has created a legal framework, including targeted sanctions, to ease these transitions. Despite its poor design and implementation, the AU is an important player in advancing democracy. However, the definition of unconstitutional changes is too narrow, and sanctions are often unnecessary. The book explores the rise of unconstitutional changes in African governments, particularly in Mauritania, Guinea, Madagascar, and Niger,…
The African democratic project is challenged by a rise in unconstitutional government changes. This book explores the causes and methods—from military takeovers to election manipulation—examining the African Union’s flawed legal response and offering suggestions for the future.
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