The Nexus among Place, Conflict and Communication in a Globalising World

The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place. All conflicts are crucially connected with place, and all conflicts are communicated in multiple ways. This book explores the complex nexus among place, conflict and communication and brings together 11 investigations around the interplay of place, conflict and communication. The interdisciplinary focus includes education, history, international relations, law and sociology. The chapters are geographically diverse, traversing Aceh in Indonesia, Australia, England, Finland, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book highlights the possibilities for reimagining the future so that more democratic and peaceful understandings of place can lead to fewer conflicts and less conflict-based communication. Better futures are possible only if place is replotted, conflict is reconceptualised and communication is recontextualised from new, varied and more inclusive perspectives with a vision to creating a more harmonious world.

Pauline Collins is Professor at School of Law and Justice, Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Victor Igreja is Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, Research fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF, Bielefeld), Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Köln), and School of Social Science (University of Queensland).

 

Patrick Danaher is Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University, Australia, and Docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland.