Understanding professional communication is essential for understanding how organisations and communication imagine, enact, and change their culture and lived realities. Professional Communication is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding and navigating the multifaceted, complex, and dynamic world of professional communication, including issues and trends in the field.

Through real-world case studies and scenarios, Professional Communication explores key themes of technological disruption, industrial convergence, and the future of professional communication across increasingly complex platform ecosystems. It highlights the critical skills, core competencies, and ethical considerations necessary to navigate the evolving landscape and prepare students for diverse professional communication roles. As well as discussions on crucial ethical and cultural considerations in professional communication, the collection includes strategies for engaging diverse audiences and stakeholders. Showcasing practical guides for building effective communication strategies, the collection offers insights into trends in the field, the necessary skills for ever-changing roles in professional communication, and the increasing importance of fostering social good.

The collection is divided into four major thematic sections, each of which details the increasingly blurred boundaries, convergence, and hybridisation of existing professional communication industries and disciplines. Reflecting the ever-changing nature of contemporary professional communication, the collection's modular structure caters to students and emerging professionals across a range of disciplines, fields, and roles, providing a flexible resource for excelling in today's and tomorrow's evolving professional communication landscape.

Early Childhood Social Studies builds on theory and research to provide practical guidance and concrete examples for teaching social studies content, skills, and dispositions to young children.

Attending to both formal and informal educational settings, this accessible textbook shows how to make social studies developmentally appropriate for teaching and learning experiences with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and in the primary grades. Examining the social studies content areas of civics, economics, geography, and history, as well as the concepts of democratic citizenship, perspectives, and historical time and chronology, the text includes a range of practical tools for pre-service and in-service educators. Readers will find lesson plans, inquiry unit outlines, reflection questions, activity ideas, essential concepts and skills, strategies and resources for educators and caregivers to guide social studies learning, including specific attention to developmentally appropriate assessment for young children.

Combining theory and research with practice, this engaging text is an essential early childhood social studies methods course book for those enrolled in early childhood and elementary educator preparation programs.

In this book, readers journey through rural small towns to discover practical tools for driving meaningful change in housing. This book delves into the roots of present-day challenges of rural places, tracing their origins to shifts in economic and demographic landscapes. Chapters explore the pivotal role of housing for individuals and communities, shedding light on how small-town leaders often act only when prompted by crisis or opportunity. The authors furnish a blueprint outlining essential components for crafting and executing a housing strategy tailored to the unique needs of rural communities. The book culminates in a compelling call to action, coupled with a concise guide to best practices and common pitfalls in community housing efforts. It is ideal for community leaders and practitioners, and students in urban and regional planning as well as community development.

In an era of rapid change and growing uncertainty, we are facing an urgent question: How can cities be built for futures that defy prediction? The contributors to this volume tackle this challenge by exploring the role of contingency in urban future-making. Through a range of case studies, they examine relevant aims, strategies, and decision-making processes in both past and present contexts. They reveal how unexpected events and unpredictable factors unsettle established urban conditions but also spark new ideas and possibilities for rethinking and reshaping the city. The volume shows how urban future-making involves navigating highly uncertain environments and extreme conditions to open up new spaces of knowledge and action.

Volunteering is typically thought of as an act of altruism, yet there are power dynamics embedded in volunteer-service recipient relationships, especially when volunteers operate from privileged positions. Following six grassroots homeless service organizations in St. Louis, Missouri, Matthew Schneider unpacks the tensions between race, class, urban space, and volunteerism. Volunteers are well intentioned and provide vital, life-saving services. However, Serving the Street explores how many of these same volunteer groups helped to reproduce racialized stigma and stereotypes about poverty, homelessness, and marginal urban space through volunteer practices that bordered on "poverty tourism." If our goal is to make communities more inclusive and equitable, this book suggests a need for greater self-reflection, even among well-intentioned, social-justice-oriented volunteers.

As the first major U.S. urban center located west of the Appalachian Mountains, Cincinnati depended on the Ohio River for its early development, eventually becoming one of the country's iconic river cities, with incredible growth during the golden age of steamboats. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the river had lost its shine and became known as the "poor man's highway." The twentieth century ushered in a period of incredible activity concentrated on the Ohio River. Local elites began a series of infrastructural projects focused on transforming both the Ohio River and Cincinnati, bringing to the fore a new kind of river city. Unlike many water management projects that wanted to tame rivers, Cincinnati elites sought to build a sustained relationship with the Ohio River. For its part, the Ohio River actively took part in these projects, becoming a major contributor to the successful realization of elite objectives around urban growth, public health, and white supremacy.

This book explores the 21st-century practices of using sport and physical activity to engage with social issues and inequalities.

Based on two years of ethnographic research exploring and contextualizing one not-for-profit organization, Back on My Feet, which uses running to empower those experiencing homelessness in cities across the United States, and including interviews and participant observation, this book takes a critical look at how this organization fits within wider historical dynamics of urban homelessness, race, and neoliberalism in the United States. Arguing that such programs and interventions can unintentionally reinforce the systems that create homelessness, this book closely examines aspects of the work of Back on My Feet and similar organizations, including how sport and physical activity can help participants foster identities beyond "homeless," how such programs fit within urban change and homeless discourses, the experiences of both recovery participants and volunteers, and the tension between helping individuals and addressing systemic issues.

Empirically rich and challenging some long-eld assumptions about the social role of sport and physical activity-ed interventions, this is fascinating reading for any advanced student, researcher, practitioner, or policymaker working in sport studies and development, cultural studies, urban studies, or political science.

Faces and the City advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space.

This comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital faces within urban space and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the facial presence in urban space, which it is used to analyse in depth urban faces and facial representation in public art, monuments, memorials as well as memorial practices, including digital ones.

This innovative volume will interest PhD students and scholars in semiotics, visual communication, digital humanities, cultural geography and urban studies, as well as those working in urban planning and design, architecture, memory studies and art history.

This book examines the complex interrelationship between rugby, honour, and the African moral philosophy of ubuntu, positioning sport within the broader history of coloniality to reveal how athletic practices can become powerful vehicles for social justice transformation.

The book offers a nuanced analysis of how Springbok rugby served as both an instrument of colonial and apartheid exclusion and a catalyst for democratic change in post-apartheid South Africa. The re-entry of the Springboks into international rugby involved the transformation of South African rugby and sporting honour that is worthy of study from a decolonial perspective. Through a creative methodological lens that centres ubuntu as a humanising philosophical framework, the book explores how notions of sporting honour shaped racial boundaries and colonial conduct, while simultaneously demonstrating sport's potential for advancing inclusion and social justice. The book provides fresh insights into the connections between rugby and other sports, South African colonial societies, the collapse of apartheid, and the transition to democracy. By considering rugby as a postcolonial, post-apartheid sport, it reveals nuanced complexities and possibilities for weaving a desirable fabric of inclusive sociality. This involves transcending damaged and limiting notions of colonial honour and rethinking colonial violence through ubuntu's humanising principles, offering a compelling critique that reimagines how rugby, and sport more broadly, can be re-humanised and transformed into a force for positive social change.

This book will appeal to students, scholars, and academics across multiple disciplines, including sports studies, African philosophy, postcolonial studies, sociology, and social justice research, as well as anyone interested in sport, ubuntu, and social change more generally.

This innovative and timely book critically explores ethical and governance issues and debates relating to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the hospitality and tourism industries.

The hospitality and tourism sectors are at the forefront of technological advancements, with AI playing a pivotal role in transforming customer engagement, operational strategies, and decision-making processes. Recent innovations, particularly in generative AI applications such as chatbots, content creation, and predictive analytics, have revolutionised how services are delivered and experienced. However, these advancements come with ethical challenges, including privacy concerns in personalised marketing, biases in decision-making algorithms, the lack of transparency in AI-driven processes, issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and disparities that perpetuate systemic biases. The book aims to help businesses, researchers, and policymakers tackle these challenges and adopt responsible AI practices.

This important and topical volume offers academics, researchers, and policymakers an interdisciplinary exploration of the ethical complexities of AI in the tourism and hospitality industries and strategies to foster inclusivity and mitigate these issues.

This collection investigates how cities have become centres for media industries, examining how local operations are shaped by global flows of finance, technology and creative labour, and how media industries contribute to urban identity and cultural life.

Written by field experts and based on extensive primary research, this book provides readers with comprehensive analysis of the complex relationship between media industries and cities across diverse global contexts. The twelve chapters examine examples from Asia, Europe and North America, covering film, television, music, games and journalism to demonstrate how media-city relationships take distinctive forms in specific locations. Readers will gain in-depth understanding of how global media flows interact with local urban contexts, and how these interactions produce cultural, economic, political and social consequences. The collection combines broad theoretical analysis with detailed case studies, advancing debates in the field of Media Industry Studies through analysing the media's multifaceted relationship to cities in a highly accessible way.

This book is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and academic researchers in Communications, Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Film and Television Studies, particularly those studying or researching media industries, global media flows, media economics, cultural production and the intersection of media and place.

Activism, Identity, and Social Theory in the 1960s examines the crucial connection between social analysis and everyday practice using a study of the transformative social movements of the 1960s. It demonstrates how personal experiences of discrimination can reflect broader mechanisms of social exclusion to reveal how the fusion of personal and political spheres created new forms of identity politics and social activism that continue to shape contemporary society.

Seven interconnected chapters offer unique insights covering pivotal events, including May 1968 in France, the New Left, women's liberation, racial justice movements, gay liberation, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam War protests. Each chapter illuminates how marginalised groups confronted injustice while highlighting the influences from social theory and philosophy that shaped activist thinking. In doing so, the author sheds light on how the events of 1968 influenced future political developments and culminated in the development of ideas such as intersectionality.

Designed for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers across social science disciplines, including sociology and political science, this accessible text provides essential context and offers new arguments for understanding contemporary social movements and identity politics.

Deploying feminist and queer theories of embodiment and subjectivity, The Impossible Subject of Suicide stages an intervention into dominant understandings of suicide that position suicide prevention as the only possible and ethical response to suicide, thus ruling it out as a legitimate choice.

With attention to scholarly research, news media, fiction, public health, and social media, the author investigates the cultural mechanisms at play in positioning and sustaining suicide prevention as a pre-discursive, a-contextual, and natural response to suicide. As the prevention narrative relies on the assumption that "normal," "healthy," and "rational" people want to live, it relegates the suicidal subject to de-agentified subject positions such as mentally ill, at-risk, or vulnerable, and thus effectively silences those who consider death. As such, the suicidal subject cannot exist as a subject in its own right: it is an impossible subject.

A study of the ways in which the subject's agency is conditioned by the expression of a normative desire to live, this book interrogates the taken-for-granted knowledges of suicide that have for decades informed understandings and representations of suicide, and aims to render the lives of those who live with suicide more liveable and open up a space from which those who have culturally been silenced can speak. It will, therefore, appeal to scholars in the social sciences and humanities with an interest in mental health, suicide, and/or questions around agency, embodiment, and subjectivity.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This book presents thirty-three essays examining postcolonial literature, cultural studies, and literary pedagogy. Contributors analyze diverse literary traditions including Indian progressive poetry, Dalit autobiographies, African literature, and Caribbean writing. The volume explores themes of gender, identity, migration, and digital humanities while examining works by authors from Premchand to contemporary writers, besides which it also offers:

• Comprehensive collection of 33 scholarly essays examining diverse aspects of postcolonial literature and cultural studies
• Interdisciplinary approach covering Indian, African, Caribbean, and diasporic literary traditions
• Critical analysis of progressive aesthetics, Dalit literature, and gender representation in contemporary writing
• Examination of digital humanities and raciolinguistic perspectives in literary studies
• Tribute volume featuring extensive analysis of Harish Narang's literary contributions and pedagogical philosophy

The book offers a special focus on Professor Harish Narang's literary contributions includes critical essays and an exclusive interview. With foreword by Kapil Kapoor, this collection offers comprehensive perspectives on literature, politics, and pedagogy in the contemporary global context.

This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. T&F does not sell or distrubute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

A new perspective on the relationship between race and space in Detroit

Detroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped clean and the color line erased in the nation's largest Black city. Detroit Never Left explains the relation between racism and space by analyzing the ways opportunities changed in the years leading up to and following bankruptcy.

Based on a variety of data, including in-depth interviews with people who identify as "Latina/o/x" in their early 20s, ethnographic observation, and media coverage, Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagan shows how a dialectic between empty and concrete abstractions created new opportunities for outside investment, often at the expense of residents' fortunes. She reveals space is much more than a neutral backdrop; It is continually produced through abstractions that act like bordering and crossing practices to control resources and opportunities. With broad implications for analyses of space and opportunity, Detroit Never Left tackles important contradictions in the post-bankruptcy city. For example, urban youth do not want to be moved out or isolated in their barrio. Similarly, many Detroiters feel spatial changes happen "to," instead of "for" them. Ultimately, residents' concerns underscored broader tensions between democratic inclusion and racialized capitalism.

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region's dominant gender and sexuality politics within the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. This book examines how people actively utilize the carnivalesque-spaces of festivity and places of excitement, the extraordinary, the ritualistic-to confront, negotiate, disrupt, and transgress normative trends, boundaries, and perspectives in the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora communities. This book is particularly concerned with the ways that Caribbean people contest sexual and gendered expectations through their bodily performances across regional and diasporic festival spaces.

Through illustrative, analytical, evaluative, and reflective chapters, the collection contemplates the themes of freedom, belonging, acceptance, and recognition as these affect the experience of people's sense of being. The authors reflect on "freeing up" as a contentious politics, understanding that people have the capacity to enact their freedom through transgressive movements and performances that persistently grapple with notions of respectability, agency, empowerment, disruption, and the meanings and consequences of their varied social and political locations.

The Routledge Handbook of Indian Diaspora Writers is a seminal and comprehensive volume comprising an all-encompassing collection of thirty-eight critical essays that meticulously dissect pivotal diasporic texts written by pioneering Indian diaspora writers. This handbook systematically traverses many canonical texts from the Indian diaspora, delineating a sophisticated critical cartography and a refined blueprint of the entire subject area. The quinque-partite structure of this handbook orchestrates a synergy of critical insights, providing rigorous and in-depth analysis of select texts. This critical compendium offers an appraisal and analytical elucidation on such a large scale that it covers thirty-eight writers within a single volume. This substantive volume, a foundational reference tool on Indian diaspora writers, warrants not a superficial perusal but a rigorous analysis from all researchers in this field. This monumental compilation stands as a testament to scrupulous scholarship and an essential vade-mecum for PhD scholars, researchers, faculty members, students, and all connoisseurs of literature alike, seeking comprehensive, state-of-the-art perspectives on the enduring global impact of Indian diaspora literature.

What happens when ancient systems of oppression travel across oceans? How do Indian diaspora communities across five nations challenge centuries-old systems of oppression while building new forms of solidarity? Caste, Country, and Creed: Struggles for Social Justice in the Contemporary Indian Diaspora takes readers inside the dynamic world of contemporary social justice activism spanning Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

This groundbreaking collection brings together the voices of artists, activists, and scholar-activists who are reshaping conversations about caste discrimination, Islamophobia, and Hindu nationalism beyond India's borders. Through intimate first-person accounts and critical reflections, contributors reveal how diaspora activists are creating powerful counter-narratives and mobilizing collective resistance across local and transnational networks.

The book documents the lived realities of organizing-the values, knowledge traditions, and pivotal moments that spark political protest. Caste, Country, and Creed shows how activists construct alternative knowledge to dissent, build solidarity, and inspire political participation. Contributors offer nuanced insights into the complex relationships and power dynamics that sustain collective action for social justice in the Indian diaspora.

For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in India.

This book explores the role played by museums and museum exhibitions in South Korea's cultural diplomacy and international projection of itself to the world.

Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork in cultural diplomatic institutions across South Korea, Britain, and the United States, this book charts the important role played by this form of cultural diplomacy. It considers specific travelling exhibitions including Masterpieces of Korean Art, which was on tour from 1957 to 1962, and 5000 Years of Korean Art, on tour from 1976 to 1985, and permanent and special exhibitions in the Korea Foundation Gallery in the British Museum and the Arts of Korea in the Metropolitan Museum of Art globally. This book goes on to examine the place of museums in South Korea's cultural diplomacy overall, explores the connections with South Korea's very successful development of its cultural sector, and concludes by assessing the effectiveness for South Korea of prioritising this form of soft power projection.

Analysing the developmental stages of South Korean cultural diplomacy in relation to international museum exhibitions, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Korean history, culture and diplomacy as well as museums studies.

In re-centering emotion in Taiwan Studies, a field long dominated by rationalist approaches, this interdisciplinary volume highlights how feelings-of belonging, grief, intimacy, distrust, and ambivalence-shape political life, social formations, and scholarly practice.

Its chapters range across colonial legacies, transitional justice, queer kinship, migrant representation, public health, disability, and more-than-human ethics, showing how emotions illuminate everyday experiences and reframe academic inquiry. By putting feeling in the foreground as both method and object, Feeling Taiwan benefits readers by offering new ways to interpret Taiwan's histories and futures, while also modelling how to integrate reflexivity, positionality, and affect into research practice. It demonstrates that studying Taiwan is never only an intellectual endeavor, but also an affective one-an engagement that invites readers to reimagine scholarship, community, and otherwise.

This book will appeal to scholars and students in Taiwan Studies, Asian Studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, and gender/sexuality studies, as well as to researchers interested in the "affective turn".

Drawing on over two decades of research in and on China and on extensive reviews of current scholarship, China: The Basics introduces readers to the key aspects of Chinese society, culture, and politics.

The book provides an empirically rich overview of China's global position and the challenges posed by urbanisation, uneven economic development, and environmental governance. With detailed vignettes giving a flavour of everyday life experiences, China: The Basics challenges simplistic approaches to China as a monolithic political unit by illustrating the nuances of citizens' agency in different realms, including work-based and gender-based inequality, social media activism, environmental protection, illness, and healthcare. It encourages readers to reflect on the importance of scale across the themes discussed. Cross-cutting referencing between chapters enables readers to identify cross-cutting themes and to consult chapters in their preferred order.

China: The Basics nurtures a critical and reflexive approach and provides readers with a conceptual toolkit for engaging with new developments constructively. It will be essential reading for students, lecturers, and anyone curious about contemporary China.

The ongoing global mass extinction of biotic life threatens the institutional foundations of many developed nations, which have historically depended on exploiting natural resources. As we enter the global Age of Ecosystem Restoration, a transformative governance paradigm emerges that could guide societies through the current biodiversity crisis.

This institutional shift requires states to fundamentally reimagine their relationship with nature. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Nick Kirsop-Taylor presents a compelling framework for state transformation grounded in socio-ecological practice and contemporary theories of governance and institutions. This book argues that nature-depleted regions must evolve into 'Nature Restoration States' - entities where place-based ecological restoration becomes the central organising principle of mission-driven governance. This represents a radical departure from extractive models towards regenerative institutional frameworks designed to navigate our ecological future.

This book is essential reading for scholars and researchers covering environmental conservation and protection, environmental policy, and socio-ecological practices.

Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant examines the experiences of motherhood for enslaved African women and their descendants who navigated the realities of reproduction in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on an extensive array of historical sources-including doctoral theses from the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, clinical case studies, manuals and treatises on popular medicine, commercial and runaway advertisements, baptismal records, and works by naturalists and ethnographers who traveled to Central and West Africa, as well as travel literature, fiction, memoirs, and a collection of watercolors and photographs-Telles illuminates the experiences of sexual autonomy, sexual violence, pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding, and the care of enslaved and freed babies in Rio de Janeiro between 1830 and 1888. Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant also details the sorrows and hopes of these enslaved women and illuminates their escapes, strategies of resistance and survival, and the social networks they built to cope with the harsh realities and limitations that slavery imposed on motherhood in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.

This book investigates the critical relationship and interactions between two major environmental agendas of this century: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Through numerous global case studies, this book provides extensive evidence explaining the synergies and trade-offs that exist between these two agendas and illustrates the varying approaches employed by governments and institutions while implementing them. It highlights essential lessons learned, key policy and regulatory measures focused on potential mitigation and adaptation solutions, and the pivotal role played by a diverse range of stakeholders in achieving the goals of both agendas.

Features

• Explains how to create synergies among the SDGs and the Climate Goals for the betterment of the planet
• Raises awareness on urgent global issues through comprehensive analysis of policy measures and decision-making
• Provides in-depth case studies from various regions with diverse perspectives and successful implementation strategies
• Discusses financing gaps and solutions to guide financial planning and resource allocation
• Addresses monitoring and verification mechanisms that will enhance accountability and transparency

This book is an insightful, comprehensive reference for professionals, researchers, senior undergraduates, and graduate students working on projects in support of climate change and sustainable development. It's also an excellent book for policymakers and NGOs involved with UN SDGs.

This book systematically examines Chinese astroarchaeology from the Neolithic period onward, aiming to reconstruct premodern knowledge systems and articulate the intellectual foundations of traditional Chinese culture.

As an interdisciplinary field, Chinese astroarchaeology explores cosmological frameworks and the origins of civilization in ancient China. The book unveils the remarkable astronomical accomplishments of the ancient Chinese and investigates the interplay between science, technology, and traditional culture. It also discusses how the origins of astronomy relate to the origins of civilization itself. Drawing on archaeological excavations, ancient artifacts, and historical documents, the study integrates research methods and findings from archaeology, paleography, the study of ancient literature, ethnology, and astronomy. Taking a theoretical and practical approach, the book establishes a framework for Chinese astroarchaeology, opening new avenues for studying the origins of Chinese civilization and providing insights into ancient Chinese political, religious, philosophical, and scientific history.

The book will appeal to scholars and students of ancient Chinese history, the history of science, archaeology, astroarchaeology, art history, and cultural heritage studies.