Critical Global Semiotics

Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-07698-6 (ISBN)

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Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship incorporates powerful unifying frameworks which make explicit a developing global consciousness. It explores transdisciplinary ‘common wealth’ through focus on multimodality, media, and metaphor, testing two universally applicable humanitarian frameworks: critical realism (CR) and systemic functional semiotics (SFS).

Every day, global citizens encounter an overwhelming host of genres and sub-genres, emergent semantic triangles, evolving semiotic trinity. Embodying philosophy, incorporating active engagement, this book addresses the political economy and cultural politics of diverse domains. Challenging daily drama and performative dharma, 24 analysts from 13 countries present current issues in Anthropology, Architecture, Dance, Feminism, Film, Health, Law, Management, Medicine, Music, Politics, Pharmaceuticals, Sociology, Sustainability Education, and Urban Development.

The book’s integrative, unifying foundations will be of interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, and critical realist philosophy, as well as to policy makers, curriculum developers, and civil society.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	7 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-367-07698-5 / 0367076985
ISBN-13	978-0-367-07698-6 / 9780367076986
Zustand	Neuware