Communication, Culture and Confrontation (Communication Processes) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8132102274 ISBN 13: 9788132102274

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The Third Volume in the series Communication Processes engages in understanding processes of communication in relation to cultural configurations and contending forces that permeate them. This volume is positioned at the interface of culture and communication―exploring ways in which interaction, negotiations, and even conflicts are voiced. It re-examines our conception of culture to show that communities cannot be divided into polarities such as ′elite and popular′ or ′dominant and subaltern′―establishing that such clear divisions cannot exist in society. Culture is therefore perceived as a field of contending forces: a milieu of exchange, encounter, confrontation, and possibly conflict.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard Bel is a research engineer currently working at Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, a speech research laboratory of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris. Earlier, he was a member of the Groupe Intelligence Artificielle, Marseille II University. Between 1994 and 1998, he was deputed to Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi, to carry on projects in musicology and sociocultural anthropology. He has published numerous articles on both subjects and is currently involved in social activism for an improvement of birth practices in French-speaking countries, both as the webmaster of the Naissance portal http://naissance.ws and the secretary of Alliance Francophone pour l’Accouchement Respecté http:/ /www.afar.info.

Review:

The volume which assembles a wide range of scholarly works that posit problematic yet convincing arguments towards a complete understanding of the concepts of culture, communication, and conflicts would be a useful resource for students and scholars of contemporary politics, media and society.

Author: The Book Review

This well-researched third volume in the series coming after the first two whose focus has been on the media, techniques and relations of communication is a good reference book for not only students pursuing disciplines of sociology, communication arts and culture but also to the faculty involved in teaching these subjects.

Author: Vidura

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 8132102274
• ISBN 13: 9788132102274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500
• Editor: Bel Bernard, Brouwer Jan, Das Biswajit, Parthasarathi Vibodh, Poitevin Guy