1st Edition

Critical Global Semiotics Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship

Edited By Maureen Ellis Copyright 2020
    268 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    268 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction

    Dr Maureen Ellis

    Chapter 1. What is a global citizen? A contribution from cognitive semiotics

    Professor Per Aage Brandt

    Chapter 2. The Maternal Gift Economy

     Genevieve Vaughan

    Chapter 3. Sustaining Sadhana: Shifting Significations of Indian Dance, and the Culture Industry

    Dr Mythili Anoop

    Chapter 4. Vision and Division in Performance: A Semiotic Perspective

    Professor Paul Barker

    Chapter 5. Political Economy and Cultural Politics of International Trade and Climate Change Negotiations

    Dr Kishor Dere

    Chapter 6. Citizenship between identity and alterity: a semioethic analysis of the European Constitution

    Professor Susan Petrilli

    Chapter 7. Layers of Meanings in Our Landscapes: Hiding in Full View

    Associate Professor Sandra Wooltorton, Professor Leonard Collard, Professor Pierre Horwitz

    Chapter 8. Challenges of Architectural Education in Mexico: Facing the Clash between Globalization and Local Realities

    Dr Anne K. Kurjenoja,  Dr Edwin Gonzalez-Meza, and Dr Melissa Schumacher-González

    Chapter 9. The Future of Regeneration: Art and the Politics of Space in the Redevelopment of Nantou Old Town

    Dr Li Xiaoyu and Dr Cheng-Wen Huang

    Chapter 10. Semiotics and a Critical Realist Approach to Film Biography

    Dr Stefan Mahorney-Childress

    Chapter 11. Criticizing and Legitimizing Patent Monopolies: The Struggle over Hepatitis C Medicines in Brazil’s Digital Universe

    Dr Matthew B. Flynn and Dr Eric O. Silva

    Chapter12. Emergence and use of the term ‘countering violent extremism’ in the context of Iraq

    Dr Victoria Lindsay

    Chapter 13. New-age Child Labour in Turkey: Child Influencers on YouTube

    Dr Gül Esra Atalay

    Chapter 14. A multimodal social semiotic approach to patient-centred communication: authorial stance in student-designed artefacts.

    Dr Rachel Weiss and Dr Arlene Archer

    Chapter 15. A round peg into a square hole: transdisciplinary sustainability education in a modular mass education system.

    Dr Alison J. Greig

    Chapter 16. Next Generation Sustainability Leadership in Global Higher Education

    Dr Wendy M. Purcell

    Conclusion

    Dr Maureen Ellis

    Biography

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

    "The deep and rigorously academic contributions to this collection of essays present some of the issues both from the point of theory and practice. The value of the book to linguists and teachers is that the essays expand the application of language and semiotics as applied to language and symbols and extend it into the arts and social and political organisation. It is a book of essays in which we can follow our interests, be they primarily political, social or linguistic, or all three. The underlying message, however, is clear: we live in a world that is under threat and only by understanding our different societal symbols, interpreting them and recognising the commonalities lying beneath can we move forward to a sustainable future."

    From Cassidy, M. (2019). Critical global semiotics: Understanding sustainable transformational citizenship (a review). Training, Language and Culture, 3(4), 68-70. doi: 10.29366/2019tlc.3.4.8