Politikk

'Poised to become a cornerstone in media and audience studies, Happer's book offers a ground-breaking model for understanding how demands for change are accommodated into systems of power.'> 'This elegantly written book offers an empirically rich examination of the media's influence on public opinion and social change in the context of public disaffection and a transformed media landscape.'>> Drawing on a decade of empirical research, this ambitious book demonstrates the role of demographics, identity groupings and socio-economic conditions in producing patterns in opinion. With an emphasis on the importance of language, value systems and differentiated media cultures - from BBC News to TikTok shorts - it offers new insights into whether age is replacing class as the key marker of political divisions. The construction of public opinion explores how new mechanisms for controlling thought and opinion limit the potential for social change - and how this might be resisted.

South Africa was the hope of the leftist world when it emerged from apartheid in 1994. It had an impressive and rich tradition of left politics.

Embark on a riveting journey through the life of Lydia Komape, an unsung hero in South African history.

Liberation Diaries is a powerful and spirited collection of essays from some of South Africa's most distinctive thinkers on the country's 30 years of democracy.

This is the first book about a significant South African figure, Joe Modise, who worked in the shadows for much of his life. His journey took him from an impoverished childhood to being chief of a guerrilla army and then Minister of Defence in a liberated country.

Unparalleled in its wide-ranging coverage of European borders in fiction, this book traverses over 600 novels and short stories to examine how post-1945 novelists have debated European borders.Examining the structures that underpin borders and boundaries, Hammond provides important new insights into the ideologies, processes and effects of territorialisation and its related issues - conflict, migration, populism, nationalism, regionalism and globalisation. Thoroughly contextualising the literary texts in terms of geopolitical developments, new border regimes and human rights, he offers new ways of understanding the cultural dimensions of bordering processes in the modern age. Hammond complements other more theoretical approaches by using a 'distant reading' approach to open up new avenues for research and create robust grounds for comparison. Emphasising three main types of border - civilizational borders, physical borders and social borders - this book examines the ideological underpinnings of the construction of boundaries, the military and bureaucratic practices of physical exclusion and the social and psychological consequences for those who are excluded. Drawing on writings from both Europe and the Global South, this study represents a significant contribution to European literary studies and continental border writing. It opens up important new avenues for decolonised research and teaching for scholars across literary and border studies.

Connects current political science to the core topics in American politics.

There are many intricacies of elections within Russian ethnic republics and political loyalty in these regions. The ethnic republics support the Russian president and the ruling party to a significantly greater degree than the national average and serve as crucial regional pillars in maintaining the stability of electoral authoritarianism.

This volume explores Christianity's relationship with democracy in a global perspective.

This volume will be of great use to scholars and students of International Relations, European Studies, Security, Conflict and Peace Studies, and Diplomacy Studies seeking to deepen their understanding of the subject.

This book explores the disjuncture that emerges at various levels in European diversity management policies and their translation into practice.

Low-carbon energy transformations to support carbon-neutral societies is an important and urgent topic and subject to current national priorities and socio-economic planning. This book addresses systematically and comprehensively the low-carbon energy transition in EU membver states, including the barriers and societal implications.

This edited volume assesses the critical intersection of AI and literacy education. It serves as an essential guide for educators, researchers, and learners navigating the evolving terrain of literacy in a world increasingly augmented by AI.

Nature has often been understood in literature through a disjunction to human systems. This can be seen in the nature-culture binary, or even more clearly in the opposition of 'wilderness' to 'civilization'.

Starting with an overview of the intersection of local and global dynamics in education in Africa, this book focuses critical attention on education research and the problematic research process.

This book analyses international interventions in the education sector of conflict-affected countries in a world order shifting towards multipolarity.

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England. It is one of the most well-known strategies internationally, with similar growth restraint policies having been adopted in a diverse range of cities around the world such as Portland, Medellin and Bangkok.

Bringing together 17 authors from diverse perspectives, Insights on Human Rights and Journalism offers an accessible introduction to the characteristics and complexities of reporting human rights issues in a changing media environment.

Bringing together 17 authors from diverse perspectives, Insights on Human Rights and Journalism offers an accessible introduction to the characteristics and complexities of reporting human rights issues in a changing media environment.

This book examines the debate over private security contractors, using historical and contemporary cases, including several non-Western examples.

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs, and buildings were removed or changed after countries' independence.