Majia Nadesan: 4 books
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability
The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability provides a detailed and empirical analysis of the institutions, governing logics, risk-management practices, and crisis communication strategies involved in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the 2010 BP oil crisis, and the 2011...
by Majia Holmer Nadesan
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health,...
Constructing Autism
Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Autism is now considered to be one of the most common developmental disorders today, yet 100 years ago the term did not exist. This book examines the historical and social events that enabled autism to be identified as a distinct disorder in the early twentieth century.
The author, herself...
Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland
Applied Studies in Communication Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Given the centrality of economics and communication in the Occupy movement, Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland uses economic insights and contemporary theories of communication to better understand the movement at this current juncture in history. This collection is organized by complementary...