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  • Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance

    Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream

    by Mark Nartey ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Language and Communication
    Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana’s independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah’s construction of a myth described in the book as the Unite or Perish myth (i.e., the idea of a ‘United States of Africa’ being a prerequisite for the survival of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Voice, Agency and Resistance

    Emancipatory Discourses in Action

    Edited by Mark Nartey ...
    Drawing on data from Africa, Latin America, North America, and the Arab Levant, this book demonstrates how members of marginalized (disempowered) groups sculpt a positive image for themselves, engage in solidarity formation for group empowerment, and (re)construct their experiences in a manner that gives them voice, agency, and a positive identity. It argues for a more interventionist stance in ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Communication and Electoral Politics in Ghana

    Interrogating Transnational Technology, Discourse and Multimodalities

    Edited by Eliasu Mumuni, Mark Nartey, Ruby Pappoe, Nancy Henaku, G. Edzordzi Agbozo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores issues at the intersection of communication and African electoral politics, taking Ghana’s 2020 general election as a focus of investigation.This interdisciplinary volume redresses gaps in the literature by highlighting the relevance of language and communication to electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa in the period of a global pandemic. The collection accounts for local ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana

    At the Intersection of Culture, Science, Religion and Politics

    Edited by Nancy Henaku, G. Edzordzi Agbozo, Mark Nartey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication
    This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local contexts in global crises.The volume critically reflects on the significance of communicative dimensions, understood here as the effects of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    Politics and Discourse

    by Dr. Liesel Hibbert ...
    The appointment of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 signalled the end of apartheid and transition to a new democratic constitution. This book studies discursive trends during the first twenty years of the new democracy, outlining the highlights and challenges of transforming policy, practice and discursive formations. The book analyses a range of discourses which signal how and ... Read more

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  • Multitude

    War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more ... Read more

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  • Advanced Introduction to International Intellectual Property

    by Susy Frankel, Daniel J. Gervais ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    A lucid and accessible explanation of international intellectual property law. The authors do not shrink from the complexities and nuances of the field but manage commendably to present them as a part of a coherent system.'- Graeme B. Dinwoodie, University of Oxford, UK'Written by two of the foremost scholars in trade and intellectual property, this book offers a clear and comprehensive overview ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Against Decolonisation

    Taking African Agency Seriously

    by Olúfemi Táíwò ...
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  • The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

    by Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic ... Read more

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    by Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
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  • An Introduction to African Philosophy

    by Sam O. Imbo ...
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  • The Handbook of Language and Globalization

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Series Book 64 - Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing fieldFeatures new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a ... Read more

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