Cold War Approaches to Security
Post-Cold War Approaches: Re-thinking Security
Post 9/11 era: Return of the ‘global’
The United Nations and Political Violence
The United Nations and Terrorism
The Regionalization of Security
Regional Security Institutions: an overview
National Security, Sovereignty and the Use of Force
Creating World Order to Protect States
The Post-World War II International Order: The United Nations System
From National Security to Global Security, Global Security to Human Security
State Security and Societal Security
The UNDP’s Development-Centered Conception of Human Security
The Emergence of the Security/Development Nexus
Human Security and the War on Terror
The Challenge to Eurocentrism and the Discourse of the Clash of Civilizations
Non-Eurocentric World History/Historical Sociology as an Alternative to the Clash of Civilizations
Conclusion: A Non-Eurocentric Alternative to the Clash of Civilizations Discourse
Rise of Modernisation Theories
Western Cultural Ambivalence towards Modernity
New International Economic Order or Sustainable development
From Structural Adjustment to Wellbeing
Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and Governance State
Environmental Change on the Global Political Agenda
Challenges to liberalism 1: National Political Economy
Challenges to liberalism 2: Marxian Political Economy
Classical Theories of Imperialism
Classical Political Realism: Critique of the Harmony of Interests Thesis
Keynes on the Conditions of International Peace
Theories of Hegemonic Stability and the Neoliberal Possibility of Non-Hegemonic Cooperation
Should We Blame The Borrowers?
A Theory of Recurrent Financial Crises
The Process of Liquidity Recycling
The Central Role of Banks in Credit Expansion
The Incentive to Increase Leverage
The Paucity of Regulatory Capital Requirements
The move into Residential Mortgages
Arbitrage Opportunities, Layers of Products and Increasing Leverage
Vulnerability through Interconnection, Leverage and Maturity Mismatch
The Transcultural Idea: Good as Happiness and Bad as Pain
Natural Good and Evil: Beyond Fitness to Survive
Traditions as Moral Anchor in an Age of Criterionless Relativism
The Primary Axiom and The Life-Value Compass
Good and Evil Within: Opening The Terra Incognita Of The Felt Side Of Being
The Value Field of Action: Reconciling Humanity and the Beast
The Lost Social Subject: Evaluating the Rules by Which We Live
Deep Principles of Justice Grounding in Life-Value Meaning
The Unseen Global War of Rights Systems and Its Principles of Resolution
Human Identity and the Meaning of Life
The Life-Ground in Western Philosophy Via Negativa
The Life-ground in Western Philosophy Via Positiva
The modern Western idea of ‘the natural world’
The Biblical view of the world
Ancient Greek science and philosophy
The impact of the ‘mechanistic’ universe of Newtonian science
Aristotle: Human Capabilities and Social Hierarchy
Marx: The Socio-economic Grounds of Embodied Freedom
Friedrich Nietzsche: Life as Predation
Herbert Marcuse: The Embodied Foundation of Morality
Theodore Adorno: The Unbearable Hardness of Being
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum: Human Capabilities and Global Justice
Understanding False Religion across History and Cultures
From Life Sacrifice for Selfish Gain to Sustainment of the Great Round
The Animating Breath of Life: The Unseen Common Ground of the Spiritual as Real
Sacrificing Self to Enable Life across Divisions: The Ancient Spiritual Vision
What Is the I that Has a Body? Rational Explanation of the Infinite Consciousness Within
Counter-Argument: How Analytic Philosophy and Science Explain Away Inner Life
From the Soul of the Upanisads to the Ecology of Universal Life Identity
Reconnecting Heaven to Earth: The Inner-Outer Infinite of Spiritual Comprehension
Re-Grounding Spirituality: From the Light-Fields to Universal Life Necessities
Redeeming the World: Bhagavad-gita and its Moral Code of Embodied Action
Spirit Infuses the Material Mould: Aurobindos Integral Yoga and Theory of Evolution
Universal Life Needs as the Lost Life-Ground of World Religion
Non-Theist Religions: An Introduction
Ultimate Principles and Understanding the Tao
Challenging All Orthodoxies by the Natural Way
Good and Bad Decoded: Nourishing Function versus Selfish Desires
Testing the Limits of the Tao: The Problems of Evil and Knowledge
The Mandate of Heaven, the Confucian Moral Order, and the Mohist Heresy
Confucianism and the Golden Rule: The Inner Logic of Equality and Inequality
Between the Lines of Orthodoxy: The Unseen Radical Humanism of Mencius
The Universal Life of the Heart That Cannot Bear the Suffering of Others
The Infinite Here and Now: The Silent Zen-Buddhist Revolution and Its Limits
The Possibility of Understanding
What Is "The Logic of Natural Language"?
Logical Norms for Natural Language Arguments
The Divine Grounds of Social Hierarchy: Greek Metaphysics
Medieval Christian Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy: Aquinas
Divine Indifference and Human Power: Spinoza
Social Freedom as a Historical Project: Kant, Hegel, Marx
The Unifying Principle of Critical Social Philosophy
The Philosophical Development of a Life-Grounded Conception of Human Nature
Conceptual Framework: Value Systems and Grounds of Social Morality
Property Rights versus Needs in the Development of Liberal Capitalism
What Liberal Democracy Leaves Out
Classical Views of Nature and Human Nature: A Hierarchy of Limits
Divine Rationality and Man in Medieval Thought: The Re-Maker Turn
Nominalism and the Transition to a Modern Conception of Nature
Nature and Human Nature in Early Modern Thought
Humanitys Modern, Creative Self-Conception
Nature as Instrument, Knowledge as Power
The Modern, Efficient Conception of Nature
Nature, Human Nature and the Techno-Scientific Enterprise
The Plasticity of Nature and Necessity of Culture: The New Ironic Reality
The Three Dogmas and the Problem of Environmental Reform
The Essential Ambiguity of the Idea of ‘Right’
The Development and Ethical Foundations of Human Rights
Demography as a Discipline of Science
Historical Evolution of Demography and Population Theories
Demographic Data Sources and Recent Progress
Challenges and Future Perspectives Of Demography
Concluding Remarks: Demography Will Be More Interdisciplinary
The Development of Historical Demography
Concluding Remarks: Historical Demography at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
The First Demographic Transition (FDT) and its precursors
The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) and its precursors
A schematic representation of the two transitions
Explaining the First Demographic Transition
Family Planning: Levels and Trends in the Use of Contraceptive Methods
Reversible Contraceptive Methods: Discontinuation and Switching
Family Planning and Induced Abortion
Family planning in the era of HIV/AIDS
The Variety of Situations Today
The Stages of Health Transition
What Assumptions for the Future?
The Importance of Sex and Sex Structure for Demography
The Conceptualization, Definition and Classification of Sex
Demography turns to Anthropology
Theoretical Challenges: Culture and Gender as Institutions
Methodological Challenges: Combining Fieldwork and Statistical Approaches
Introduction: The overlap between Health and Demography
Health Data: The Different Concepts of Health and the Main Classifications
Health survey: Study Design and Data Collection Methods
Population Health Indicators: Basic Indicators and Summary Measures
The Classical Malthusian World
Marriage and the Modern Family
Global Ageing: An Overview of Major Trends in Developed and Developing World
Rapid Populations Ageing in Developing World
Demographics of Ageing: Major Determinants
Changing Family Structure, Status of Women and Feminization of Aging
Problems and Needs of Aging Population
Financial and Fiscal Policies for Older Persons
Foreign Assistance and the Role of Civil Society
General Biological Demographic Principles
Conceptual and Measurement Issues
The Multistate Projection Model
Applications of Multistate Demography
Bridging the Micro- and Macro-Simulation Models - Recent Development of Multistate Demography
Measures of Longevity in the Life Table
Decomposition Methods in Demography
Population Geography and Contemporary Spatial Demography
Methods of Population Geography
Population and Food Availability
Population and Land Use Cover Change
Population and Water Resources
Population control in traditional societies
Rationale for population policy
Population policy in the liberal state
Population policy between the World Wars
International population policy after World War II
Population policy in response to below-replacement fertility
Population and food availability
Population and Land Use Cover Change
Population and Water Resources
Doing Fieldwork in Archaeology
The Archaeology of Human Life Support Systems
Preserving the Past for The future
Methodological Foundations of Archaeology
Writing the History of Archaeology
The Fragmentary Nature of the Archaeological Record
Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
Fifty Years of Theory in Euro-American Archaeology: Historical Background
Orbital Driven Climatic Change
Other Cause of Climatic Change
Climate Change and Human Culture
Historical Aspects, Foundations, Policy, and Professional Practice
Texts and historical archaeology
Culture History, Processual, and Postprocessual Archaeology
The Concept of Landscape: Past and Present
Sites and Monuments in the Context of Landscape
The Main Fields Concerned with Understanding Landscape Archetypes
Non-Destructiveness and Future Developments in Landscape Archaeology
Methodology, Techniques, and Equipment
Early Historical Development: Practitioners and Their Concerns
Social Organization: Intangible but Tractable?
The Socio-Politics of Archaeology
Social Agency, Social Reproduction, and the Individual in Society
The Rise of Hunting and Gathering
Are Foragers Natural Conservationists?
The Strategy of Modern World Archaeology
The Archaeology of Global Migrations in the Modern World
The Origin of Eurasian Nomadism
The Earliest Nomads of the Western Eurasian Steppes
The Earliest Nomads and Cattle-breeders of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes
The Earliest Nomadic Empires in Central Asia
The Earliest Nomadic States in the Siberia and Altay
The Earliest Nomadic States in the European Steppes
Acheulean Foragers and the dispersal of Homo sp
Middle Stone Age Hunter-gatherers and the Emergence of Modern Humans
Late Pleistocene Specialized Foragers
From Foragers to Food-Producers
Plant and Animal Domestication: the Evolution of Agriculture
Earliest Humans in Eastern Asia
Two-culture Theory of the Paleolithic World
Appearance of Homo sapiens and the Late Palaeolithic Tool Kit
End of the Ice Age and Adaptation to the Changing Environment
Sedentary Foragers of the Temperate Forests
Development of Neolithic Societies in China
Rise of Civilizations and States in China
Chiefdoms and Early States of Korea and Japan in the East Asian Interaction Sphere
Social Context of Archaeology and Heritage Protection in East Asia
Earliest Human Movements and Lifeways in Western Asia
Protection of Archaeological Sites and Monuments in 2000
Threats to the Archaeological Heritage
The Future of the Archaeological Heritage
Heritage, Nationalism, and the Beginnings of Archaeological Societies
Categories of Archaeological Museum
The Museum’s Place in Preservation Philosophy
The Role of Museums in Preserving Sites in situ
The Role of the Museum in ex situ Preservation
The Role of Archaeological Museums in Public Education and Involvement
Introduction: Environmental Assessment, Sustainable Development, and Historic Preservation Laws
The Evolution of Historic Preservation Laws
When is it "Appropriate" to Consider Impacts on Historic Properties?
Managing Historic Properties Subject to Effect
High-Profile Site Management and National Laws
International Standards and National Laws
Historic Preservation in Sustainable Development: A Basic Approach
Prerequisites for Rescue Archaeology
The Development of Rescue Archaeology
Concepts and Values Used in Rescue Archaeology
Rescue Archaeology versus Academic ArchaeologyDifferences and Similarities
The Legal Framework and the Administrative Framework of Rescue ArchaeologySome Examples
Palaeopathology: The Discipline and How It Is Studied
The "Sociological Imagination": Popular Faces of Sociology
Classifications of Social Reality
‘Lay’ and Disciplinary Sociologies
The Nature and Scope of Sociology
Types of Tradition and Their Roles
Pre-disciplinary Traditions of Social Theory
‘Mainstream’ National traditions of Sociology
Contemporary Sociological Traditions
Non-theoretical Sociological Traditions
Non-Western Traditions and Non-Western Sociologies
The Dynamics of Traditions: A Sociology of Sociology/ical Change
Eras of Social History: Formation, Expansion And Fragmentation
The Scope of the Field: Addictive and Non-Addictive Substances
Theoretical Perspectives and Research Methods in the Sociology of Addiction
Studies of Careers in Drug and Alcohol Use and Abuse
Studies of Drug and Alcohol Subcultures and Specific Populations
Studies of Social Control Efforts
Research on Punitive Responses to Drug and Alcohol Use and Abuse
The range of Modes of Investigation
Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Social Investigation
The Quickening Methodological Pulse: Interwar, War and Postwar
Vicissitudes of the Philosophy of Social Science
Stage Model Evolutionary Theorizing
Micro-level Theorizing on Interpersonal Processes
Problems in Developing Scientific Sociological Theory in the 21st Century
Constitutive Lacks and Future Potential: Sociology, Society, and the Social
‘Sociology’ Without ‘The Social’: A Brief Re-Reading of the Ancients
Specifying the Social: The Challenge of Modernist Individualism
Over-Specifying the Social: The Ontological Shift towards Collective Concepts
The Crisis of Collective Concepts: Against Sociological Nostalgia
An Individualist-Aggregative Understanding of the Social: Sociology’s Default Option?
The Social and the Political: Creating and Maintaining a Common World
Transformative Agency and the Weakening of the Social Bond
The Risk of Worldlessness in Its Current Guise and the ‘end’ of Sociology
Social Change and the Life Course
The Classical Critiques of Rational Utilitarianism
Key Concepts of Rational Choice Theory
Sociological Adaptations of Rational Choice
James Coleman’s Foundations of Social Theory and His Critics
Smelser's Contribution: The Logic Of Ambivalence
Rational Choice and the Multi-Paradigmatic Character of Sociology
Freud and the Interpretation of the Social
Psychopathologies of Rationality: The Frankfurt School
Contemporary Critical Theory: Habermas's Reading of Freud and the Theorem of Distorted Communication
Returning to Freud: Jacques Lacan
Advantages and Limitations of Lacan's Theory
Lacanian and Post-Lacanian Contexts
Sociobiology and Evolution by Natural Selection
Sociobiological versus Sociological Views of Human Nature
Evolutionary Foundations and Transformations of Human Groups and Societies
Neo-Weberian Studies of Bureaucracy
Comparative Organization Studies
Newer USA Organizational Sociological Theories
Feminism and Feminist Sociology in the Post-War Era
Feminist Sociology in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s: "The Second Wave"
Explaining Gender Differences and Gender Inequality
Constructing Indigenous Sociologies: The Indian and African Experiences
The Binaries of Modernity – European Sociology as Power
The Debate About Multiple Modernities: Does It Transcend Eurocentrism?
Paradigm-shifts and Renovations in Social-Cultural Determination
Robert Merton: Manifest and Latent Functions
Parsons: Functionalism as Unified General Theory
The Problem of Structuration: Structure and Process
Against Subject-Object Dualism: Bourdieu and Giddens
Analytical Dualism: Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach
Theorising the Structuration Process. Beyond Duality versus Dualism
Classical Historical Sociology
Post-Classical Historical Sociology
The Influence of Social History
The Consequences of the Cultural Turn
Sociology’s Responses to Marxism
Setting the Stage: The Central Components of Marxist Theory
The Classical Marxist Theory of the Trajectory and Destiny of Capitalism
Sociological Marxism: Conceptual Foundations
Sociological Marxism: The Theory of the Contradictory Reproduction of Class Relations
Introduction: Consumer Society
The reality of Consumer Choice
Consumer Choices in the Public Sphere
On the Consequences of Consumerism
Consumerism and the Problem of Waste
Global consumption: Issues of Distribution
Concluding Remarks: Critical Responses and Reactions to the Consequences of Consumerism
The Changing Conditions of Success
A General Theory of Social Movements? The Work of Alain Touraine
How has Technology been Theorised?
Technology, Systems and Social Interests
Multiple Definitions of Institutions
Multiple Disciplines - Multiple Languages
Institutional Frameworks, Theories, and Models
The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
Diagnosis and Explanation within the Frame of an Action Arena
The Actor: Theories and Models of the Individual
Predicting Outcomes within an Action Arena
Explanation: Viewing Action Arenas as Dependent Variables
Attributes of States of the World: Physical and Material Conditions
Parsonian functionalism: the emphasis on system/structure
Interpretative Micro-Sociologies: The Emphasis on Agency
Decentring the Subject I: Hidden Codes
Decentring the Subject II: Subjectless Practices
Decentring the Subject III: Texts
Transcending the Subjectivist-Objectivist Divide: Attempts at a Post-Parsonian Synthesis
The Intellectual Heritage of Dependency Theory
Frank: The Development of Underdevelopment
Dos Santos: The Structure of Dependence
Policy Implications of the Dependency School
A Critique of the Dependency Perspective
The Historical Context of the World- Systems Perspective
An Example of Key Concepts: Semi-periphery
Another Example of World-Systems Studies: Long Waves of Colonialism
A New Global Target Population for Wholesale Finance
Financial Deepening and the Potential for Growth
The Maldistribution of Subprime Mortgages
Rolling Spillover and Network Effects: No Sector or Country Escapes
The Birth of Psychology: Precursors
Wundt and Structuralist Psychology
Structuralism in the United States
Psychology Seen Through Its Methodological Approaches
Educational and School Psychology
Organizational and Work Psychology
A Quick Overview of the Branches of Psychology
Ethical Issues Across the Branches of Psychology
Branches of Psychology Pertinent to Sustainable Development
Relationship of Psychology to Other Disciplines
Public Policy Considerations and Future Contributions
Historical Foundations of Clinical Psychology
Antecedents of Contemporary Clinical Psychology
The Five Pillars of Health and Disease
Psychology and Sustainable Development
Definitions of Counseling Psychology
Education, Training, Standards and Organizational Structures for Counseling Psychology
Contexts for Counseling Psychology's Global Development
Counseling Psychology's Potential Contributions to Global Sustainability
The Main Concepts of Dynamic Psychology
The Phase of Archetypes and of Collective Unconscious
The Search for a New Theoretical and Cultural Synthesis
Family Therapies and Systemic Approaches
Religion as (Not Only) a Quest for Meaning
Religion as the Strengthening of Self-Control
Religion as Nostalgia for Unity and for Return to the "Maternal Breast"
Religion as Paternal Protection and as a working out of Parental Relationships
The Analysis of Works of Art. The Unconscious and Language
The Analysis of Creative Activity. Psychoanalysis as a Creative Experience
The Confluence of Issues from Different Domains
An Overview of Research Methods
Reasons for the Multiplicity of Methods
Experimentation and Quasi-Experimentation
Psychological Tests and Measures
Do the Items Measure Just One Latent Variable?
How Much of the Observed Variation Is True Variation and How Precisely Do the Items Measure?
Of Human Successes and Failures
Strengths and Limits of Human Information Processing
Methodological Approaches to Studying Complex Problem Solving
Complex Problem Solving: Historical Roots and Current Situation
The Concept of Individual Differences and Main Categories to Describe Them
Introduction: Multiple Theories of Human Psychological Development
One Possible Integrated Theoretical Model of Psychological Development
New Concepts about the Functions of the Social Environment
The Child-Parent Process of Adaptation
The Attachment Relationship and Individual Development of Psychological Awareness
Child Pathogenic Beliefs as "Silent" Risk Factors in Inhibiting Normal Development
Children's Vulnerability versus Invulnerability to Traumatic Life Events
The Influence of Unconscious Mental Operations on Children's Verbalizations and Surface Behavior
Definition of Social Psychology
A Structure for Topics in Social Psychology
A Review of Social Psychology Topics
Applying Social Psychology: The Legacy of Social Psychology
Group Formation and Maintenance
Expanding the Field: Types of Groups and Events Defining Relationships between Groups
Grapes of Wrath: Behaviors That Comprise the Relation between Groups
In the Eye of the Beholder: Intergroup Relations and Intergroup Perceptions
What are Large Groups and How Can We Study Them?
Historical Approaches to Large Groups
The History of Juridical Psychology (with the collaboration of Antonietta Curci)
Characteristics of Nonverbal Communication
Components and Patterns of Nonverbal Communication
Basic Determinants of Nonverbal Communication
From "Being-Mind" to "Being-Time"
Logocentrism and Deconstruction in Psychology
A Scientific and a Technological Perspective
From Human Behavior to Human Performance
Knowledge and Achievements Securely Anchored
Customer- and Citizen-Oriented
Interest in Expanding and in Restricting Entry into the Field
Confidential Reports and Publishing Papers
Long-Term and Short-Term Projects
Achieving Results from Higher Education and Training
Generalizable Theories and Specific Models
Deontological Codes and Normative Standards
Subject Matter and Career Paths
Conventional Classroom and E-Learning
How Do Migrants Adapt to a New Culture?
First Studies in Political Psychology
The Relationship between Psychology and Politics
The Institutionalization of Political Psychology
The Emergence of the Seventh Continent
Functions and Structures of Law and its Institutions
Philosophies and Systems of Law
The relationship Between Law, Ethics, and Justice
Introduction: What does it Mean to Compare Legal Systems?
Philosophies of Law, Legal Traditions and Legal Systems
Non-Western Philosophies of Law
Comparing Legal Traditions and Legal Systems
Whether there is a Philosophy of the Common Law
Origins and Growth of the Common Law
Culture of the Common Law: Lex non Scripta
The Role and Discretion of Legal Officials in the Common Law
Copyright, Trademark and Patent Law
Tax Policy, Electronic Commerce, and Developing Countries
Formation of Agreements for International Trading of Goods: Documentary Sale and Letter of Credit
Frustrations of Contract: Excuse, Impracticability, Impossibility, Force Majeure
The GATT, Customs Classification and Valuation, Rule of Origin
Transfer of Technology and Licensing
Direct Investment: Risk Assessment, Joint Ventures, and Privatization
Options for the Resolution of International Business Disputes
Sources of US Environmental Law
Major Substantive Areas of Federal Environmental Law and Regulation
Regulation versus Competition in Telecommunications Markets
The Taxation of International Business Profits
The Political Categories of Plato and Aristotle
Goal-oriented and Process-oriented Models of Politics
Introduction: The Term "Democracy" Abused
Democracy up to the End of the Eighteenth Century
What is Constitutional Government?
Constitutional Features Across the World
State Format and Executive Powers
Totalitarian and Authoritarian Political Structures
Authoritarianism and Sovereignty
The European Experience in Dictatorship
Introduction: Economic Development as Interplay of Markets and Government
Adam Smiths Moral Economy and Self-regulating Markets
Socialist Critiques of Capitalism
Governments and Markets in a Polarized Age
Recent Theories of Economic Development
From Economic Growth to Human Development
Political Science on Markets and Government
The Study of Economic Development as Moral and Political Economy
Introduction: The Meaning of the Concept Government
Government and the Political System
Political Regimes and the Shaping of Government
The Institutional Configuration of Government
The Form of Government: Organization, Composition and Leadership
The Structure of Government: Performances
The History of the Judiciary and its Justification in Principle
Protections for Judicial Independence
Conventional Typology of Political Executives
Interest Groups in Democracies
The Emergence of Political Parties in the Modern Era
Conservative and Progressive Parties
Classification of Political Party System
Political Parties in the Political System
Political Party Systems of the World
Democracy, Freedom and Party System into the Twenty-first Century
Historical Origins and Development
Liberal Responses to Criticisms against Liberalism
Introduction: "Conservatism"—A Protean Word
Historical Development of Philosophical Thinking on Human Rights
Twentieth Century Discussions of Rights
Constitutions and Declarations
The Implementation of Human Rights
Trends in the Discussion and Political Recognition of Rights
Ecologism and Environmentalism
The Casualties of Environmental Problems
International Politics as a Discipline
Post-Cold War Rethinking of International Relations Theories and Future World Visions
Sustainability in International Relations
International Anarchy and States’ Need for Survival
The Twentieth-century Realism: Criticism of Utilitarianism
Defining and Identifying Actors in World Politics
The Declining Authority of States and the Rise of Transnational Relations
Different Perspectives and Actors in World Politics
Transnational Relations and Contending Theoretical Approaches
Introduction: Why are Scholars Interested in International Regimes Being?
Defining International Regimes
Changes of International Regimes
The Quest for Peace and Security: Traditional Approach
The Broadening of Ideas of Security
The Evolution of Journalism and Mass Communication
Communication and Sustainable Development: Looking to the Future
Themes Affecting Journalism and Mass Communication
Technology Brings Changes to Journalism and Mass Communication
Changes in the Journalism Workforce
The Future of Journalism and Mass Communication
Printing and the Rise of Newspapers and Pamphlets
The Twentieth Century and the Decline of the Newspaper Medium
US Television Programming Since the 1940s
Communication for Development: Praxis for Sustainability
Routes to Sustainability: Another Development
Public Awareness, Social Marketing, Entertainment-Education and Advocacy
Media Coverage of Sustainability
Case Study: Effect of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development
Development of International Communication
Networks Using News Agencies/Wire Services
Introduction: Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Media
Storytelling as the Core of Traditional and Modern Media
The Evolution of Puppetry as an Entertainment Medium
Potential for Entertainment Education
Technology Innovations in Traditional and Modern Media
Facets of Identity Development: Class, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, and Nationhood
Can Global Media Support Meaning and Expression in Local Lives?
Situating Contemporary Media in Socio-historical, Political, Economic, and Cultural Contexts
The Origins of Media Globalization
From Mass Society to Mass Communication
The Internet, the Information Economy, and World Society
Internet Access and Cost: From the Information Gap to the Digital Divide
Regulation and Civil Liberties in the Internet Age
The Internet and Globalization: From Economics to Culture
The Internet and Localization: From Macro- to Micro-perspectives
The Internet, Interactive Communication, and Sustainable Development: Potential and Pitfalls
Chronology of Technological Inventions Leading to the Internet
Internet Related Organizations
Transformation from Industrial to Postindustrial to Information Economies
Transformation of the Internet
Information as a Commodity and a Source of Competitive Advantage
Changes, Challenges, and Concerns
Unexpected Benefits of the Information Economy: the Environment and Sustainable Development
The Internet, Mass Communication, and Culture
Initial Technological and Cultural Aspects of the Internet
The Internet as a New Marketplace of Ideas
The Internet as a Postmodern Cultural Space
Hardware and Software: Primary Factors of the "Digital Divide"
Contents-Related Aspects of the Information Gap
The Digital Divide: Structural Causes
Governments’ Attempts to Regulate the Internet
Internet Regulation in the Middle East
Development and Sustainability
Rate of Adoption of the Internet
The Diffusion of Interactive Media Technologies
Success and Failure in Development of Interactive Media
Characteristics of Interactive Multimedia and Digital Technologies
The Convergence of Electronics, Computers and Telecommunications
Promoting Sustainable Development in a Global Digital Economy
Defining Moments in Multimedia and Interactive Media History
Where are the Mass Media Headed?
Brief History of Communication and Development
Management and Future of Communications Media in Social Change
Dominant Paradigm of Modernization
Sustainable Development and Sustainable Societies
Ten-Step Campaign Planning Process
The Importance of Democratic Public Participation
Examples of Communication Campaigns Involving Environmental Sustainability Issues
What is Sustainable Development?
Public Understandings of Sustainable Development
Public Ignorance and Misunderstanding about Sustainable Development
Unity of Knowledge in the History of Ideas: Ontological and Subjective Concepts
Unity and Diversity of the Sciences and Humanities
Unity of Knowledge in Societal Problem Solving
Unity of Knowledge in Education
Science and Society in Sustainable Development
Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainability
Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability
The Nature of Transdisciplinary Knowledge
The Relational Pluralism of Transdisciplinarity
Technical, Moral, and Scientific Knowledge in Classical Antiquity
The Legitimacy of Technology in Ancient Myth and Philosophy
Unit Divisions of Knowledge: Classificatory and Archival Functions of Disciplines
Disciplines as Production and Communication Systems
Postacademic Science: A New Mode of Knowledge Production?
An Institutional Perspective on Science and the Societal Application Context
A Conceptional Observation on the Relationship between Science, Technology, and Indus
Scientific Knowledge, Technical-Industrial Innovations, and Uncertainty
Heteronomization of Science: The Reverse Side of the Scientification of Society
Science and Society—Dealing with Relevance
Natural and Social Science—Dealing with Complexity
Sustainable Development—A Common Value?
Consequences of Transdisciplinary Research and Future Perspectives
Human Ecology Thinking on Sustainability in China
Understanding the Social-Economic-Natural Complex Ecosystem
Ecopolis Development: Planning Sustainable Community
Action with Nature: Pilot Studies of Ecopolis Development in China
A typology of transdisciplinary research
The trade and negotiate approaches
The Emergence of Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainability
Process Models for Transdisciplinary Research
Sustainability: Definitions and Implications
Sustainability Theory: The Triple Bottom Line
What Are Sustainability Indicators?
The Political Context and Content of Sustainability Analysis
Introduction: Relevance of Management Skills in Transdisciplinary Research
The early history of university management of intellectual property
The later history and current status of patentable intellectual property
University management of copyrightable intellectual property
Management of copyrighted property and transdisciplinarity
Introduction: Universities and the socialization of knowledge production
Disciplines and transdisciplinarity
Theoretical models of the role of universities and disciplines
Knowledge, Science, Integration, and Transdisciplinarity
Individual Human Talent: Seeing, Thinking, Evaluating, and Planning
The Short-Term Orientation of the Free Market System and Corrections by the State
Children and Artists, Copyright and Royalties: How the Market Deals with Cultural Entities
The "Maxwell Fund" and the "Human Rights Fund"
Developing Humanity’s Mind and Body
The Importance of Transdisciplinarity: Idealization and the Modesty of Science
Variety, Potency, and Robustness versus Efficiency, Uniformity, and Yield
The Lion and the Profiteer: Dioxin and Health
The Running and Stumbling Society: Permanence of the Exceptional, War and Peace
The Two Great Metaphysical Strategies: Instantiation and Emergence
The Social Epistemology of Instantiation and Emergence: Realism versus Constructivism
Historical Conditions for Knowledge Integration
The Future of Knowledge Integration: Identifying and Overcoming the Obstacles
Today in the Clothes of Yesterday
Languages and Concepts of Culture
Culture - phenomena, objects of investigation, and concepts
Culture: The Human Way of Life
An ontological inventory of culture
The concept of culture and its delimitation
The cosmic influence on civilisation
Cultural heritage as a discipline not an inheritance
Cultural heritage - impersonal social and historical rules
Every human society has its own discipline at the micro and macro level
The perpetuation of a discursive and a non-discursive practice
Stabilization and innovation - fossilization and anarchy
Cultural heritage as a resource of a community and of humanity
The political uses of the cultural heritage
Brief history of concept of cultural unity from Herder to Lenin
Historical definitions of cultural diversity
Contemporary definitions of culture
Promoting a culture of mutual respect for cultural difference
Traditional Folk Culture, popular culture and commercial mass culture
Globalization and commercial mass culture
Identities within a global commercial mass culture
Identities against a global commercial mass culture
The Role of Custom and Tradition in Contemporary Civilization
Multicultural and multi-ethnic societies
Do Traditional Cultures Exist?
Opposition between Traditional and Modern Cultures in Western Discourses and Practices
Opposition between Traditional and Modern Cultures in Post-colonial Discourses and Practices
Contingent structures and essentials in the phenomenon of culture
Structures in the concept of culture
Tones, Images, Narrations, and Scripts
The impact of colonialism and globalization on local and national cultures
Dissipative structures in global economic and cultural relationships
The roots of modernity: Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud
Concepts of culture in biology and anthropology
Culture and the material processes of production
Culture and the loss of stability and certainty
Culture and the taming of the unconscious
Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Chaos theory
The status of indigenous cultures within sustainable development
Risk research and communication conflict
Development and Sustainability
Introduction—a Bios Vision in Globalization
Setting Global Bio-environmental Priorities
Bio-culture—Moving beyond Sustainable Development
Bio-economics—Redefining the Concept of Profit
A Three-Dimensional Approach to Economic Theory
Green Salary—New Employment Opportunities
Genetic Banks—Saving the Wealth of Biodiversity
World Referendum—a New Pathway for Democracy
Bank of Ideas—Mapping the Evolution of Environmental Awareness
Bio-diplomacy—Investing in "Defense for Bios"
Bio-legislation—Defending the Rights of Future Generations
International Court for the Environment
International Environmental Emergency Body
Bio-architecture and Urban Planning
Bio-education for a Global Responsibility
Environmental Olympics—Bios Prizes—Athlos as an Intellectual Achievement
Historical Justifications for Intellectual Property Protections and Current Realities
Shaping Cultural Life and Conditions of Communication
Neoliberalism and the Informational Economy: Balancing Private Interests and Public Goods
The Global Regime of Intellectual Property and Emerging Inequalities: Human Rights and Development
The Contemporary of the Non-Contemporary
Creativity and the Knowledge Society
The Relationship of the artist with the social field
Memorizing the face: Skulls and sculpture
Memorizing the will of the gods
Memorizing the heroes: ballads and epics
Memorizing the kings: praise poems
Memorizing the people: struggle poems
Types of Audience and Fields of Audience Studies
An Example of Readership Studies
Art, Artistic Field and the Role of Audiences
Culture and political power in the past
Culture and economic power in the past
Culture and the state: State funding and control
Entartete Kunst and political correctness: using the people to control the arts
The cultural public and its relationship to the artist
The need for Mass Communication
Communication in face to face situations
Body language and ritual communication
Distant communication: Letters
Distant communication: telegraph, telephone, wireless telephony
Distant communication: e-mail and chatting
Privacy of direct communication
Official languages, dominant languages, lingua franca
The transition from patronage to the market in works of art
The nation state, its common language and culture, as a unified market for art
The market at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century
Art market in America, mass media
The challenges of the 21st century
Hybridity and new internationalism
Ancient Model and Sustainable Development
The Recent Model and its Limitation
The Advent of a "Word ", Collapse of a World
Radio Play- Its scope and Range
Theater – Its Approach and Appeal
Macroeconomics of Demand and Supply
Partial Equilibrium: the Marshallian Approach
Role of Government in Education
Human Capital Theory of Investment Decision
Criticisms of Human Capital Theory
Monetary Rates of Return to Education
Non-Monetary Benefits of Education
Macro-Level Impact of Education
Screening and Separating Equilibria
Introduction: Why Experiment in Economics
A Brief History of Experimental Economics
Experiments in Economics and Psychology: Similarities and Differences
Different Types of Experiments
The Emergence of Evolutionary Economics
First Principles and Shared Concerns
Different Evolutionary Approaches
The Search for General Evolutionary Principles
Evolutionary and Mainstream Economics Compared
Individual and Corporate Economic Entrepreneurship
Woman entrepreneurship: social dimension.
The Life and Works of Lon Walras (1834-1910)
Mystery of Walras' pure economics I: Static Analysis and Progressive Society
Mystery of Walras' pure economics II: The zero-profit entrepreneur
The Importance of Public Debt Management
Legal, Institutional and Managerial Frameworks
Coordination with Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Sources of Public Debt Not Linked to the Fiscal Deficit
Quantity Theory after Keynesian Revolution
Economic Cycles and Fluctuations
Rational Expectation Hypothesis
Walrasian Transactions: Excess Demand
Styled Facts on Economic Growth
A basic model of physical and human capital accumulation
Non-convexities and the role of initial conditions
Taxation policies and economic growth
Expectations and economic growth
The Keynesian View of Unemployment
Samuelson’s canonical example of an OLG model
Existence and efficiency of competitive equilibria
Competitive equilibria with fiat money
Properties of the Monetary Instrument
Pioneers and Latecomers in Historical Perspective
Growth and its Sources since 1950
Sustainable Growth: Concepts and Framework
Economic Growth Without Environmental Factors: A Basic Model
Sustainable Growth With Nonrenewable Resources
Global Warming and Economic Theory
Global Warming and Intergenerational Equity
The International Fund for Atmospheric Stabilization
Natural Environment as Social Overhead Capital
Economy—Environment Relationship
Environmental Capital Base and Environmental Crisis
Economic Growth and Environmental Quality
Exhaustible Resources and Sustainability of Development Process in Developing Economies
The Concept of Sustainable Resource Use: Sustainable Accounting and Collective Action
Uncertainty, Values, Political Considerations, Regulatory Costs
Risk Society and Sustainable Development
Sustainability and National Governance
Principles for National Governance
National Laws and Institutions
Introduction: the purpose of environmental law
The modern environmental movement
The rise of modern environmental law
The fundamental principles and characteristics of modern environmental law
Non-Constitutionalism—Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever?
First Generation Environmental Constitutionalism—Form without Substance?
General Themes in Water Pollution Control Law
Major Legal Approaches to Water Pollution
Common Law Approaches to Water Pollution
Statutory Approaches to Water Pollution
Ambient Environmental Quality Standards
The Theory of Government and Institutional Politics: A Brief Comparative Sketch
Plans and Planning: The Plan as Guideline/The Plan as Law
Planning Permission vs. Development Rights: The Chasm
Zones: Exception to the Planning Permission Doctrine
Planning Gain (Obligations) and Land Development Conditions
The Role of Infrastructure: Transportation Planning and Development
Legal Mechanisms Available to Conserve and Protect Pacific Salmon and Their Habitat
Introduction: The Necessity of a New Peace Culture
Research: Facing the Challenge of Cultural Globalization
Repairing the World Through Culture and Literature
The Media: The Need and the Will to Change
Cultural Aspects of Conflicts: Conflict Resolution through Culture
International Forum for The Culture of Peace (IFLAC)
Education: Telecommunications and the Arts
Women and the Innovative Peace Culture System (PCS)
Women’s World TV Satellite Peace Network (WSPN)
The Importance of Non Governmental Organizations (NGO’s)
Women Organizations for Peace - Lena: The Bridge
The UN Coalition of Five "Women for Peace" Organizations
The spectrum of peace definitions: meanings and implications
Difference between Peace Education and Peace Studies
Systematic Transmission of Culture
A brief analysis of terrorism vs. peace
A brief review of occidental revelation on peace
An oriental perspective on peace
The Integrated Power of Literature, Arts and Culture on Peace
Abundance and Scarcity: How Did Things Get This Way?
Unpacking the Patriarchy and Moving Into Partnership
Organizational Partnerships: The Living Proof
The Patterns and Paradox of Power
Leadership in a Partnership Context
Exploring Perspectives about Heroes
Exploring the Hero in Ancient Cultures
Exploring Thematic Expressions of Peace as the Presence of Justice
Therapeutic and Stress Reduction Humor
War Environment and the Cold War Era During a Period of Peace
War, Black, Aggressive and Sick Humor
Eccentric, Surreal, Nonsense, Ludicrous and Alternative Humor
Approaches to Peace Studies and Peace Education
Ideas on how Peace Themes can overcome Pessimism
Governance toward a Culture of Peace: A Vision?
What can the Family Contribute to the Culture of Peace?
The United Nations and the Culture of Peace Mandate?
Women, N.G.O.’s and a Culture of Peace
Coming back to Family and Dignity
Empowering Women for a Culture of Peace
Becoming Residents of Culture of Peace: The Will
Revolution of Heart: A Society Living for the Sake of Each Other
Toward Nonkilling Global Society
Is a Nonkilling Society Possible?
Capabilities for a Nonkilling Society
Two concepts and their integration
Four principles for Peaceful Language Users
Grounding a Culture for Peace with Justice
Absorbing Personal Values Important for a Culture of Peace with Justice
Adopting Public Values Important to a Culture of Peace with Justice
Integrating Spirituality, Personal and Public Values, and Paradigms for Peace
Prologue – Women in the League of Nations
The Founding Mothers of the United Nations
New Dimensions in the UN – Economic, Social and Human Rights Issues
Human Rights are Women’s Rights
Women Going Global – Beijing Conference in 1995
Difference between Peace and Nonviolence
Obstacles to Nonviolent Option
Typology of Nonviolence (4 ‘P’s)
Quadrant A – Principled/Personal
Quadrant B – Pragmatic/Personal
Towards a Definition of Intercultural Dialogue.
Frameworks for Cooperation Between Cultural Communities
Development of Intercultural Dialogue in Education
Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - The Role of Literature; The Media as an Instrument
Introduction: The Need of a New "Peace Education and Culture System" (PECS)
Foundation of a Powerful SALAAM SHALOM Television by Satellite
Funding and Support of the SST
War and Peace in Peace Education and the Culture of Peace
The Function of the SST and SSR
The Daily "Hour for Peace Culture"
The Value of Historical Learning
History in the Contemporary World
The Relevance of Contemporary History
Primate Vocal Production Abilities
Cultural Definitions of Language
The study of language and culture
Language and Cultural Patterns of Thought
Cultural Institutions and Language
Language, culture and technology
Gesture: What Is It, and What Is It not?
Introduction and Basic Concepts
The Linguistic Relativity Paradigm: Genesis and Recent History
Interactional dynamics and social practice
Language variation and language ideology
The First Paradigm: The Boasian Tradition
The Second Paradigm: The Ethnography of Communication and the Birth of Sociolinguistics
New Directions of Research: Language Socialization, Indexicality, and Heteroglossia
Language planning in historical perspective
Clarifying the Scene (Terms) & Constructing Morphology (Building Blocks)
Hard-core Morphology: Operations
Morphology (at the beginning) of the 21st Century (From A-Z)
Sociolinguistics and the Study of Variation and Change
Methods for Studying Variation and Change
Linguistic Constraints on Variation
Social Dimensions of Variation
Directions in the Sociolinguistic Study of Variation and Change
Language and Identity I: the Individual
The visual-gestural nature of sign languages
The sociolinguistics of sign languages
What is Computational Linguistics
Infrastructural Language Resources
Cognitive Linguistics: Core Concepts
Domains and Idealized Cognitive Models (ICM)
Meaning and grammar. The cognitive basis of grammar
History and development of Forensic Linguistics to the present
Summary of the Development of Forensic Linguistics
Forensic Linguistics in the Justice System
Theoretical basis of ecolinguistics
Ecology as Metaphor – the Haugenian paradigm
Language, Nature and environment – the Hallidayan paradigm
Lexicography and Allied Fields
Typological Classification of Dictionary
Groundwork for Dictionary Making
Issues Related to Written Corpus Generation
Process of Written Corpus Generation
Language families in the Old World
Management Organizational Structures
Program and Project Management
Cost Estimation Methods, and Work and Cost Breakdown Structures
Human and Cognitive Factors in Management
Management, and Knowledge Management and Complex Adaptive Systems
Historical Origins of World-systems Analysis
Learning Drives Social Evolution
Shortcomings of Traditional Social Science
Fundamental Methodological Components of World System History
Methodological Challenges to World System History
World System Processes as Self-Organization
Testing for Systemic Self-Organization
Summary of World-System Analysis
Migration in Eurasia and Elsewhere
Anthropology of Mobility and Identity
World-Systems, Globalization, and Migration: Some Conclusions
Civilizations and World Systems
The Character of States Systems
The Character of Universal Empires
The Pathology and Survival of States Systems
An Introduction to the Silk Road
Silk and Other Merchandise along the Silk Road
The First Golden Age: The Era of Four Empires (100 BCE–200 CE)
The Second Golden Age: The Sogdian Era (200–600)
The Third Golden Age: The Era of China's Second Empire (600–750)
The Fourth Golden Age: Dar al Islam (750–1000)
The Song Interlude: Song China Takes to the Ocean (1127–1279)
The Fifth Golden Age: The Era of the Pax Mongolica (ca. 1260–ca. 1350)
The Timurids and the Indian Summer of the Silk Road (1400–1500)
Russian Expansion into Central Asia’s Trade Routes: From Silk Road to Cotton Road
Culture/Nature Relations and Ecological Crisis: A Brief Overview (2200 BC to AD 900)
The World Economy in Long Perspective
Human Settlement Systems in World System History
The Evolution of Early Settlement Systems
Early European Republicanism, to 1517
Early Modern Democracy, 1517-1814
Liberalism in Europe, 1814-1848
Europe: Integration Process at the Nucleus of the World System
Leading Sectors of the Global Economy
Prospects for a World Community
Overview: How We Govern the Global Information Infrastructure
The International Regime for the Global Information Infrastructure
Consequences for Global Connectedness
Consequences for World Economy
Globalization, Erosion of State Sovereignty and the Need for a Global Order
The Limits of the Intergovernmental Paradigm
Glocalization, New Medievalism and Multi-level Governance
The Decline of Power Politics and Constitutionalization of International Relations
Three Answers to the Critics of World Government
The Crisis of the State-centric Paradigm in Political Studies
Civilization and Civilizations
Islam as Basis of a Universal Community
The Problem of Rule and Succession
The Islamic Middle Age: Syncretism, Diversity, Cataclysm, Expansion
Questions of Social Integration and Political Participation in Modernity
Theoretical Considerations in Defining Civilizations
The European Civilizational Constellation
The Enlightenment and the European Heritage
The Spread of Islamic Civilization
European Exploration and the Establishment of Imperial Rule
Industrial Civilization and Industrial Revolution
Consumption and Industrial Civilization
Industrial Civilization and the World beyond Europe
Challenges Arising from Industrial Civilization
Limits and Alternatives to Industrial Civilization
Once There Were Many: A Partial Roster of Civilizations
Now One Remains: The Emergence of a Single Global Civilization
What was the Advantage of Central Civilization? And of its "West"?
Was the Actual Course of the Globalization of Civilization Inevitable?
The Dialogues of Civilizations
General Rationale of this Chapter
Root Causes of the Conflict in West Papua
The Sources of the Indonesian Government’s Power in West Papua
Armed Resistance to Indonesian Rule in West Papua
Tendencies to Disregard Nonviolent Social Change
Poland’s Nonviolent Revolution
Journalism and the Formation of Public Opinion
A Proposal for a Parallel Media
Building Dynamism into Peace Journalism
American Indian and First Nation Song and Principled Nonviolence
American Indian Song and Pragmatic Nonviolence
Role of Aboriginal Australian, First Nations and American Indian Song in Nonviolent Social Change
Three Approaches to Social Change
Historical Responses to Enclosures
The Movement and Its Impact, 1913-1945
The Rise and Fall of a Mass Movement, 1945-1953
The Movement’s Impact, 1945-1953
The Movement Resurrected, 1954-1970
The Movement Begins to Revive Again, 1971-1980
Impact of the Movement, 1971-1980
The Movement at Flood Tide, 1981-1989
Retreat from Armageddon, 1981-1996
Comparative Literature, an Institutional Activity
Falls, Between Myths and Histories
Falls, Ends and Prophecies between Poetics and Politics
Comparative Literature as a Natural Disposition
More Than Comparative Literature, Comparative Reading
Comparative Literature in Relevant Times
Language and the Specificity of the Human
Critical Reflection on Diverse Modes of Literary Expression
Comparative Literature as Meta-Narrative
Literature as Perpetual Present
Aesthetic Historicism, French Influence Study, and American Parallelism
The Discourse of Triumph and of Crisis
Literature in Ancient Civilizations with Writing
Literature in Classical Literary Cultures I: China
Literature in Classical Literary Cultures II: India, Europe, and Arabic Culture
Changes in European Societies and Literatures Around 1800
Modern Literary Culture: From Around 1800 to the Present
Understanding and Comparing as Basic to the Human Condition
Brief History of Interpretation
Brief History of Comparative Literature
The humanistic doctrine of ut pictura poesis and the issue of the competition between the arts
The French classicism: transforming painting into scripture
The sensualistic rhetoric, the crisis of the universal logos and of the ut pictura poesis tradition
The birth of the Aesthetic theory
The Laocoon or the critic of metaphor "literalization"
Conclusion: from romanticism to the mediatic turn
From the Ideogram to the Alphabet
From the Art of Memory to Ekphrasis
Introduction: The Multiplicity of Musico-Literary Relations as a Typological Challenge
Extra- vs. Intracompositional Intermediality and Scher's Typology of Musico-Literary Relations
Variants of Extracompositional Intermediality and their Relevance to Word and Music Studies
Variants of Intracompositional Intermediality and their Relevance to Word and Music Studies
A General Typology of Intermediality Illustrated with Musico-Literary Examples
Toward a Critical Convergence of Modern Literature and Film
Introduction: The Semiotic Framework
Aesthetics of Writing, Visual Form, and Literature
Comparison at the Origins of the Modern World
Comparative Literature between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Challenges of Positivist Comparative Literature
Science and Literature: theoretical debates
Debating the claim to truth: past to present trends
Introduction: narrative and history in the allied paradigms of historicism and realism
Anthropology as the Study of Man
Myth and Folklore–The Writing of Culture and Cultural Writing
Comparative Literature, Ethnic Literature, and the Canon
Imagination, Imaginary and Anthropology
The Imaginary and Mythcriticism
Imagination and Critical Power (The Surrealists)
Literature under the Tutelage of Philosophy
The rise of disciplinary knowledge: setting epistemological frontiers
The emergence of Literary Studies: redrawing of frontiers
First challenge: the idea of Comparative Literature
Second challenge: the project of Cultural Studies
The frontier as a shared/sharing condition of identity formation
Comparative Literature, an Institutional Activity
Falls, Between Myths and Histories
Falls, Ends and Prophecies Between Poetics and Politics
Comparative Literature as a Natural Disposition
More Than Comparative Literature, Comparative Reading
Comparative Literature in Relevant Times
The Ubiquity of Literature, or Writing, Lies and Videotapes
On Photography —Off Photography
Ontology and History: The Beginnings of the Literary Journal
The French Avatar: Journal Des Savants
The English Models: Spectator and Tatler
The Evolution of the Literary in the 19th Century
Media, Modernism and the Social Conditions of Art: A Diagnosis by Meyer Schapiro
Towards Literary Formalism: Partisan Review
Mass Culture and its Discontents: Clement Greenberg
Critical Theory and Culture Industry
Theories of Pure Art in a Mass Society
Organicism in Literary Criticism
The Institution of Literary Criticism: F. R. Leavis
The Fetishism of Text: the New Criticism
Functionalism and the fallacy of Gesellschaft
The ‘Other’ American Sociology: The Loss of Individual Autonomy
The Decay of the Aura and Reproduction Technologies: Walter Benjamin
Avant-Garde as an Alternative to Modernism
The Celebration of Mass Culture: Marshall McLuhan
The "New Sensibility" and the Children of Marx and Coca-Cola
Postmodernism as the Cultural Logic of Advanced Capitalism
The Imperial Pretensions of Culturalism and the Devaluation of Nature
Introduction: The Context of Education Today
Two Meanings of "Global Communication"
Criticism, Responsibility and Dialogue from a Semioethic Perspective
Ends and Means: Under the Empire of the Book
Past and Future Alternatives: The Forms of Sensoriality from Oral to Hypertext
The Persistence of Oral Traditions
Alternative and sub-literary: the uses of illiteracy. ‘Special interest’ Literature
‘Alternative’ as Marginal: From Counterculture to Counter-Canon
When the Books are Banned: Samizdats and other Desperate Alternatives
The Search for Interdisciplinarity
The Impact of Technology and Literature’s Interdisciplinarity
Which Technologies for a Globalized World
Which Literatures and Which Technologies for a Sustainable Development?
Socio-Cultural Dimension: Knowledge Preservation and Different Types of Supporting Materials.
The Economic Dimension of Text Supporting Materials
The Institutional Dimension: Textual Mass Production and Control
Textual and Global Issues: the Local within the Global
The Environmental Dimension: Preservation of our Natural Capital
Terminology and Basic Conception
The Traditional Concept of Translatio Studii
The Redefinition of Translatio Studii in the Context of Cross-Cultural Movements or Weltverkehr
"Weltliteratur" ("World literature"). Goethe and a Programmatic Concept of Literature
Inventing ‘World Poetry’ in the 20th Century III: Joachim Sartorius’ Atlas (1996)
Basic Principles of the ICLA / AILC Activities
Theoretical and Thematic Translatio Studii through the ICLA / AILC Congresses
Pedagogical Aspects of Translatio Studii and Cross-Cultural Weltverkehr
Historical Sketch of Intercultural Relations between Africa and the World
Intercultural Mediators from and for Africa
Intertextuality and Comparative Scholarship in African Literatures
The World Traffic of Writers and Scholars:Migration, Exile and Transnational Scholarship
International Recognition of African Literatures: Awards and Prizes
Book-fairs, Publishing and Circulation of African Literatures
What is Cultural Anthropology?
The Objects of Investigation and the Scope of Cultural Anthropology
Introduction: The Origins of a Discipline
Nineteenth Century: Evolutionist and Diffusionist Perspectives
Early 20th Century: Collectivist Paradigms
The Degeneration Theory of Race from Ancient Times to Darwin
The Pre-Adamite/Polygenic Theory from the Sixteenth Century to Darwin
The Debunking of Lamarck and the beginnings of Eugenics
Introduction: Semantic Ambiguities of the Concept of Anthropology
Pioneers of Social Anthropology: Evolutionism and Society
The Idea of Society in British Anthropology: Functionalism
The French School: Structuralism
From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism and Their Influence on Agency Theory
Against Stability: Dynamic Anthropology
Beyond seemingly Objective Facts: the Interpretive Anthropology of Clifford Geertz
Postmodern Anthropology: The Advent of Methodological Individualism and the Omission of Society
Language, Discourse, Contexts: Ethnography and Semiotics
Social Exclusions and Linguistic Ideologies
Endangered Languages and Language Rights
Reckoning the Past, Envisioning the Future: Narratives, Memory, and Justice
Introduction (Francisca Alves Cardoso and Sandra Assis)
Genetics in Living Population (Amanda Ramos and Cristina Santos
Genetics in Forensic Anthropology (Claudia Lopes Gomes and Eduardo Arroyo Prado)
Genetics in Evolutionary Human Biology – Primatology (Tânia Minhós)
Medical Anthropology and Ethnomedicine
Taxonomies and Componential Analysis
Classical Theoretical Debates: Substantivism, Formalism and Marxism
Poetic Processes in Language and Music
Contemporary Philosophical Anthropology
Max Scheler: "The Human’s Place in the Cosmos"
Researching Through Photography
Film and Anthropology: The Origins
The Objectifying Approach in Ethnographic Film
Observational Film and the Subjectified Approach
The Relational Approach in Ethnographic Film
Studying Power and Politics with Anthropological Tools
Perspectives from Poststructuralisms
The State and Neoliberalism in Globalization
Colonialism, Empires and Imperial Formations
The Enduring Coloniality of Power, Development, and White Privilege
Anthropology and Law in the Nineteenth Century
The Early Twentieth Century: The First Ethnographers
The Case Method Approach in the Anthropology of Law
Legal Reasoning and Interpretation
Process in the Anthropology of Law
Language, Power, and Legal Discourse
Law beyond Borders: International Law and Transnational Developments
A complex object of study: religion
An Overview over the Birth of Anthropology of Dance
The Anthropological Study of Dance before The 1970s
The Established Discipline: Institutionalization and Development of Methodologies
Ethnography: A 20th Century Invention
The Cold War and Second-Wave Feminism
Labor and Love: Marxism in Anthropology of Gender
Coloring Sex: Voices of "difference"
Looking At The Powerful: The Subaltern Voice
Identity Politics and the Emergence of the Queer Movement
Post-structuralism in Anthropology of Science and Feminism (1990’s)
Anthropology of Gender at the Present
About the contents of oral traditions
About the value of oral traditions
On the functions of oral traditions
The scientific study of oral traditions: a methodological perspective
The Anthropology of War and Violence: A Brief History
The Evolution of Lethal Violence and War
The Beginnings of a New Perspective
The Contradictions of Agriculture
The General Impact of the World Economy
Anthropological Engagements in Brazil and Beyond
Assembling Anthropological Knowledge
Studying Up and Leveling Hierarchies
