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  • Television at Large in South Asia

    Edited by Aswin Punathambekar, Shanti Kumar ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibrant cultural form that is "at large" in South Asia. Bringing together prominent scholars who have shaped television studies in South Asia, as well as emerging scholars who address new topics, this book decisively positions television as a key site in the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Global Communication

    New Agendas in Communication

    Edited by Karin Wilkins, Joe Straubhaar, Shanti Kumar ...
    Series series New Agendas in Communication Series
    This volume interrogates what "global" means in the context of "communication," and who benefits from global communication practices and industries. Emerging scholars contribute their unique perspectives in communication scholarship, charting innovative directions for research that connects empirical evidence with pressing questions of social significance. This critical reflection leads to ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Media on the Move

    Global Flow and Contra-Flow

    Edited by Daya Kishan Thussu ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly global.The surge in transnational traffic in media products has primarily benefited the major corporations such as Disney, AOL, Time Warner and ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Popular Representations of Development

    Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media

    Edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies.Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    by Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Media Anthropology for the Digital Age

    by Anna Cristina Pertierra ...
    The field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book, Anna Pertierra tells the story of how a field - once firmly associated with the study of esoteric cultures - became a central part of the global study of media and communication. She recounts the rise of anthropological studies of media, the discovery of digital cultures, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

    by Eve Stoddard, John Collins ...
    Series series Foundations in Global Studies
    From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and processes of globalization as well as a critical look at the meaning and role globalization. Students ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Global Media Studies

    by Toby Miller, Marwan M. Kraidy ...
    Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive �how-to� guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world. They look at political economy, global policymaking and governance, and the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Other Cities, Other Worlds

    Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

    Edited by Andreas Huyssen ...
    Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    by Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregon ...
    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Read more

    $251.99 CAD

  • The Amartya Sen Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Amartya Sen

    by Brenda Sims ...
    This book is your ultimate Amartya Sen resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Amartya Sen's whole picture right away. Get countless Amartya Sen facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Amartya Sen Handbook is the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD