Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9781032088419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Maureen Ellis

Opis

Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship incorporates powerful unifying frameworks which make explicit a developing global consciousness.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. What is a global citizen? A contribution from cognitive semiotics.  2. The Maternal Gift Economy.  3. Sustaining Sadhana: Shifting Significations of Indian Dance, and the Culture Industry.  4. Vision and Division in Performance: A Semiotic Perspective.  5. Political Economy and Cultural Politics of International Trade and Climate Change Negotiations.  6. Citizenship between identity and alterity: a semioethic analysis of the European Constitution.  7. Layers of Meanings in Our Landscapes: Hiding in Full View.  8. Challenges of Architectural Education in Mexico: Facing the Clash between Globalization and Local Realities.  9. The Future of Regeneration: Art and the Politics of Space in the Redevelopment of Nantou Old Town.  10. Semiotics and a Critical Realist Approach to Film Biography.  11. Criticizing and Legitimizing Patent Monopolies: The Struggle over Hepatitis C Medicines in Brazil’s Digital Universe.  12. Emergence and use of the term ‘countering violent extremism’ in the context of Iraq.  13. New-age Child Labour in Turkey: Child Influencers on YouTube.  14. A multimodal social semiotic approach to patient-centred communication: authorial stance in student-designed artefacts.  15. A round peg into a square hole: transdisciplinary sustainability education in a modular mass education system.  16. Next Generation Sustainability Leadership in Global Higher Education.  Conclusion

O autorze

Maureen Ellis is a senior research associate at University College London and associate lecturer at The Open University, UK.