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  • Narrating Peace

    How to Tell a Conflict Story

    by Solon Simmons ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how a story is structured, all in order to help us think about conflict. Using examples from literature and films for developing narrative competence in everyday life, the book illustrates a new model of four basic plot types that can push a reader/viewer either toward political struggle (a justice or vindication story) ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Eclipse of Equality

    Arguing America on Meet the Press

    by Solon Simmons ...
    Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival camps seems natural and political gridlock seems inevitable. Entering the fray, Solon Simmons offers an intriguing twist on the debate: Our disagreements come not from unbridgeable divides, but from differing ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • What Is Enlightenment?

    Continuity or Rupture in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings

    by Hani Albasoos, Brian Calfano, John Entelis, Azza Karam, Solon Simmons, Radwan Ziadeh, Albena Azmanova, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui, Richard Rubenstein ...
    Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their desired system, although their slogans ushered to a fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings showcase an open-ended freedom-to question after Arabs underwent their freedom-from struggle from ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Professors and Their Politics

    Edited by Neil Gross, Solon Simmons ...
    Despite assumptions in some quarters of widespread academic radicalism, professors are politically liberal but on the whole democratically tolerant and are focused more on the business of research and teaching than on trying to change the world.Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Root Narrative Theory and Conflict Resolution

    Power, Justice and Values

    by Solon Simmons ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book introduces Root Narrative Theory, a new approach for narrative analysis, decoding moral politics, and for building respect and understanding in conditions of radical disagreement.This theory of moral politics bridges emotion and reason, and, rather than relying on what people say, it helps both the analyst and the practitioner to focus on what people mean in a language that parties to ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict

    Edited by Sergei A. Samoilenko, Solon Simmons ...
    Series series Handbooks in Communication and Media
    Provides real-world insights into social and political conflict across disciplinesThe Handbook of Social and Political Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of conflict from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, merging insights from fields including sociology, political science, psychology, communication, and conflict resolution. Bringing together original work by experts from around the ... Read more

    $153.00 USD

  • Conflict Resolution after the Pandemic

    Building Peace, Pursuing Justice

    Edited by Richard E. Rubenstein, Solon Simmons ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official responses to it.The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its longer-term effects open the door to both further conflict escalation and dramatic new opportunities for building peace. In a series of short essays ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

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  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    The author of Race for Profit carries out "[a] searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In this winner of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and class ... Read more

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  • How Propaganda Works

    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

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  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

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  • Animals, Robots, Gods

    Adventures in the Moral Imagination

    by Webb Keane ...
    A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods ... Read more

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