Critical Global Semiotics

Maureen Ellis is a senior research associate at University College London and associate lecturer at The Open University, UK.

Introduction. 1. What is a global citizen? A contribution from cognitive semiotics. 2. The Maternal Gift Economy. 3. Sustaining Sadhana: Shifting Significations of Indian Dance, and the Culture Industry. 4. Vision and Division in Performance: A Semiotic Perspective. 5. Political Economy and Cultural Politics of International Trade and Climate Change Negotiations. 6. Citizenship between identity and alterity: a semioethic analysis of the European Constitution. 7. Layers of Meanings in Our Landscapes: Hiding in Full View. 8. Challenges of Architectural Education in Mexico: Facing the Clash between Globalization and Local Realities. 9. The Future of Regeneration: Art and the Politics of Space in the Redevelopment of Nantou Old Town. 10. Semiotics and a Critical Realist Approach to Film Biography. 11. Criticizing and Legitimizing Patent Monopolies: The Struggle over Hepatitis C Medicines in Brazil’s Digital Universe. 12. Emergence and use of the term ‘countering violent extremism’ in the context of Iraq. 13. New-age Child Labour in Turkey: Child Influencers on YouTube. 14. A multimodal social semiotic approach to patient-centred communication: authorial stance in student-designed artefacts. 15. A round peg into a square hole: transdisciplinary sustainability education in a modular mass education system. 16. Next Generation Sustainability Leadership in Global Higher Education. Conclusion