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Regional Studies
Wendy Atkins-Sayre• Ashli Quesinberry Stokes (eds.) City Places, Country Spaces
Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide
New York, 2020 . XII, 306 pp ., 8 b/w ill . Frontiers in Political Communication. Vol. 44
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Regional differences matter . Even in an increasingly globalized world, rhetorical attention to regionalism yields very different understandings of geographic areas and the people who inhabit them . Regional identities often become most apparent in the differences (real and perceived) between urban and rural areas . Politicians recognize the perceived differences and develop messages based on that knowledge . Media highlight and exacerbate the differences to drive ratings . Cultural markers (from memorials to restaurants and memoirs and beyond) point to the differences and even help to construct those divisions . The places identified as urban and rural even visually demarcate the differences at times . This volume explores how rhetoric surrounding the urban and rural binary helps shape our understanding of those regions and the people who reside there . Chapters from award-winning rhetorical scholars explain the implications of viewing the regions as distinct and divided, exploring how they influence our understanding of ourselves and others, politics and race, culture, space and place, and more . Attention to urban and rural spaces is necessary because those spaces both act rhetorically and are also created through rhetoric . In a time when thoughtful attention to regional division has become more critical than ever, this book is required reading to help think through and successfully engage the urban/rural divide . Gerd Bjorhovde• Janne Korkka (eds.) Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters
Bruxelles, 2022 . 266 pp ., 2 fig . col ., 2 fig . b/w, 5 tables . Études canadiennes – Canadian Studies. Vol. 36
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Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters is a collection of articles on a broad variety of Canadian topics and themes, from literature to language and linguistics, from social and political issues to art and aesthetics, philosophy, history and geography . Initiated by The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS), this volume has been put together by an international team of scholars who all work in the multidisciplinary field of Canadian Studies . The book engages with the broad theme of exploration in both concrete and metaphorical terms . The writers recognise that Canadian society has emerged from complex processes of exploration and encounters between people and ideas . The volume looks beyond simply celebrating these processes, and asks how different peoples, regions and ideas in Canada have been shaped by centuries of exploits and encounters in terms of gaining visibility and representation in the political life, literature and social relations of a multi-ethnic society .
Deon Geldenhuys• Humberto González (eds.) Global South Powers in Transition
A Comparative Analysis of Mexico and South Africa
Berlin, 2019 . 514 pp ., 5 fig . col ., 58 fig . b/w, 50 tables . Regional Integration and Social Cohesion. Vol. 20
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Employing a novel collaborative transnational methodology, this groundbreaking book presents the first comprehensive and systematic comparison of Mexico and South Africa . Although geographically, historically and diplomatically far apart, Mexico and South Africa are ambitious and influential powers in the Global South and also experience wide-ranging domestic transitions . A binational team of 26 researchers from the two countries, all specialists in their respective disciplines, probe the transitions that Mexico and South Africa are undergoing in areas such as socio-cultural diversity, domestic politics, economic development, labour dynamics, social and territorial inequality, food security, crime and violence, and
foreign relations . The detailed country studies allow the authors to identify striking similarities but also profound differences between the two societies . In so doing, the book helps to explain Mexico and South Africa to each other but also to the world at large .
Haneen Ghabra• Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui• Shadee Abdi• Bernadette Marie Calafell (eds.) Negotiating Identity and Transnationalism
New York, 2020 . XIV, 212 pp . Critical Intercultural Communication Studies. Vol. 24
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At the heart of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies is a discipline that has been slowly expanding its borders around the issues of racism, sexism, ability, privilege, and oppression . As Latinx, African American, Asian Pacific American, Disability and LGBTQ Studies widen and shift the scope of Communication Studies, what often gets underplayed is the role of transnational Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Studies . It is imperative that the experiences of transnational individuals who live and move between the region and the U .S . are centered . For this reason, the goal of this book is to begin to bring Middle Eastern and North African Communication and Critical Cultural Studies in conversation with Global and Transnational Studies . We ask, how can scholars make a space for transnational MENA Studies within Communication and Cultural Studies? What are the pressing issues? Thus, at a time where Arabs, Arab Americans, Iranians, and Iranian Americans are under attack by Western media and governments, it is crucial to center their voices from a transnational perspective that privileges their positionalities and experiences rather than continue to study them from a reductive Eurocentric lens . We seek to build on existing scholarship by including essays that theorize from a Communication and Critical Cultural Studies lens . This book aims to bring together work by established and new or emerging scholars . Jane Mummery• Debbie Rodan Imagining New Human-Animal Futures in Australia
Oxford, 2022 . Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 5
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Examining social imaginaries is important for exploring how we might live differently . This interdisciplinary book combines ethical, narrative, and media analysis to investigate emerging ideas regarding human-animal interaction and cohabitation in Australia in the twenty-first century . The authors appraise the range of conventions, standards, and narratives that have driven Australians’ interactions with animals . They further trace how animal advocates, activist groups, and other influencers are calling for change, together with inspiring everyday Australians to better consider the status and wellbeing of animals in Australia . In this work they draw on a wide range of sources: from activist campaigning and well-known cultural narratives to diverse forms of mainstream media production and scientific analysis . They examine the treatment of livestock animals, common understandings of companion animals, the protection of threatened species, the complexity of living alongside native animals, and the possible rewilding of Australian communities and landscapes . The book also addresses the question of what living in more-than-human, multispecies communities might mean and look like in practice . In every chapter the authors endeavour to better understand how Australians live alongside animals and imagine how better models for interaction, cohabitation, and communal living with animals might be built .
