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Part 1: Principles and practices : Chapter 1: Key concepts -- Chapter 2: Some notes on method -- Part 2: From linguistics to semiotics: Chapter 3: Words -- Chapter 4: Grammar -- Chapter 5: Reading and meaning -- Part 3: Meaning and society -- Chapter 6: The semiotics of reality -- Chapter 7: Ideology and social meaning -- Chapter 8: Multiscalar analysis -- Chapter 9: Conclusions

AbstractIn this article I consider Castells's network society trilogy as a key site for examining claims that globalization today is driven by a new paradigm, in which networks and digital technologies play a decisive role in producing revolutionary new forms of economics, politics, culture and society. To theorize this change I draw on a rich, explicit account of non‐linear causal processes found in far‐from‐equilibrium cybernetics, foregrounding the all‐pervasive, constitutive phenomenon of disorder, coming from below as well as above through a multiplicity of networks, old and new, digital and non‐digital.

Australia's faith in multiculturalism has been shaken by ferocious attacks in the public arena over the past decade. Borderwork in Multicultural Australia, reviews the hot spots, reasserts the value of multiculturalism and argues that a multicultural society is the best bulwark against terrorism, racism and injustice

Un efecto crucial de la globalización es una forma de intercambio cultural tan radicalmente nueva que demanda una redefinición de lo que concebimos como multiculturalismo y junto con ello de la naturaleza de la cultura misma. No sólo basta con analizar a las culturas nacionales y a sus identidades manteniendo la idea de una cultura fija, homogénea, que se encuentra bajo la supuesta amenaza de fuerzas globales. Es necesario buscar nuevas definiciones que respondan al carácter específico de las formas contemporáneas de relacción intercultural. La cultura contemporánea está caracterizada por una gran diversidad de significados resultado de la interacción entre grupos, países, culturas y lenguas distintas. La presencia de múltiples significados provenientes de diferentes culturas es cada vez mayor considerando el creciente número de personas que se desplazan de sus lugares de origen en busca de nuevas oportunidades laborales, financieras, educativas, políticas y también por la expansión de los medios de comunicación global que, de un modo creciente y a una gran velocidad, permiten el intercambio de productos culturales en todo el mundo.

This article focuses on the challenges confronted by contemporary universities when they undertake 'community engagement' activities through the lens of an active citizenship workshop we have designed and implemented. We begin by concentrating on the very concept of 'engagement', unpicking its ambiguities and returning its complexities to where they belong – in social experience. As both practitioners and researchers involved in many years of 'engagement', we reflect on the aim, purpose and outcomes of such activities. Drawing on the theoretical traditions of educator Paulo Freire and philosopher Martin Heidegger, we apply our engagement activities and citizenship workshops to the aspiration of transformational change: both for those who participate in the activities and for us, as educators. We thus use 'engagement' as a guide to making better and more strategic interventions in the three sets of relationships inextricably involved in 'active citizenship' projects: 'engaged research' with academic and other partners; our own 'engagement' with the young people we work with; and finally, their 'engagement' as citizens with the rest of society.

Keywords: Citizenship, engagement, active citizens, threshold, transformative change

In January 2007, media outlets across Australia reported the local court decision Police v Rose. Mr Rose pleaded guilty and the presiding magistrate recorded no conviction. This event sparked a 'butterfly effect' that culminated in legislative amendments changing the make-up of the body responsible for oversight of judges in New South Wales. Key players failed to observe the doctrine of the separation of powers; while others called for its observation. None of this would have been foreseeable to Mr Rose or the two transit officers on the night he was detained. This paper uses complexity theory and digital media analysis to locate flashpoints around which critical incidents occur; and what the unexpected flow-on effects reveal about the host society.

Multinational corporations have become players on the global stage, alongside nations. This article addresses one aspect of this development, the way leaders of nations now use discourses and ways of thinking formerly characteristic of business in major policy documents. The paper distinguishes different senses of 'discourse' to identify what is managerial discourse, using textbooks as data. It then looks at a specific instance, the Mexican Government's 'Plan-Puebla-Panama', showing how it subordinates discourses of government to see Mexico as a commodity. Yet the contradictions this introduces act as an ideological complex, a functional set of contradictions implemented in dialogue.