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Peace by Peaceful Means
Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization
1996 || Paperback || Johan Galtung || SAGE
This theory-based introduction to peace studies provides coverage of theories relevant to peace studies: peace; conflict; development; civilizations; and economics. It provides an analogy between peace studies and health studies, and makes a strong case for a transdisciplinary approach.
Modernity At Large
Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
1996 || Paperback || Arjun Appadurai || University of Minnesota Press
Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch.
In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai places these challenges and pleasures of contemporary life in a broad global perspective. Offering a new fram...
Questions of Cultural Identity
2021 || Paperback || Stuart Hall e.a. || SAGE
Hall offers a wide-ranging exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. He outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. Outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity providing both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.