« Le nom “Action directe” a surgi lors d’une réunion dans un tout petit appart donnant sur le cimetière de Montmartre. Il avait été avancé par un camarade italien. Savait-il que la puissante organisation du syndicalisme révolutionnaire italien au début du XXe siècle était Azione Diretta ? Lorsque ce nom est apparu officiellement, nombreux furent les censeurs : ils n’y voyaient que référence au militarisme ou à l’anarchisme de la propagande par le fait. C’était oublier combien ce terme appa...

This book investigates the miscommunication that occurs within diverse healthcare settings. It includes doctor-patient consultations, multi-disciplinary teams, and intercultural encounters; it also examines adverse patient events. It explores real life situations where communication failed either patients, health professionals, or both. The author applies a specific social psychological perspective to offer one particular explanation as to why communication fails. The complex nature of hea...

Si elle a longtemps été l’apanage des géographes et des historiens, la notion de frontière cristallise depuis plusieurs années un intérêt croissant au sein des sciences sociales, au point d’avoir désormais conquis le statut de concept sociologique. Qu’est-ce qui se joue à la frontière entre espaces sociaux, mondes professionnels et jeux institutionnels ? Comment les spécialistes d’un espace d’activité traversent-ils les frontières sociales pour intervenir dans un autre espace, à quelles co...

Le néolibéralisme appliqué aux mondes du travail vise moins à liquider le syndicalisme qu’à lui assigner un nouveau rôle : celui de partenaire social préférant toujours le dialogue à l’opposition, accompagnant les politiques patronales et relayant les décisions managériales. Il en a résulté des réformes qui ont changé la donne : les négociations s’institutionnalisent à l’échelle de l’entreprise, les représentants syndicaux se professionnalisent tandis que les mobilisations au travail recul...

There is ground for hope in the transformative power of right action, and in this dialogue the focus is on the combination of spiritual power with social activism. The effect of truth in action is compelling as both Ingram and Badiner point to those whose lives are making a difference throughout the world. For anyone seeking to balance the inner life with outer work in the world, this dialogue provides inspiration and guidance.

As a social worker, you are required to communicate in writing for a wide range of purposes and audiences.This text guides you through all you need to know to develop your social work writing skills:Essential elements of written communicationWriting skills in daily practiceMacro-practice writing skills: obtaining resources and creating changeInfluencing your professional contextNow with two new chapters on writing for local...

Communication accommodation theory (CAT) explains and predicts when, how, and why different people engage in conversational adjustments with others (or not), as well as recipients’ responses to them. CAT has been studied with many methods across numerous languages, cultures, groups, disciplines, and contexts as well as with non-human species. This, besides journal special issues, is the third book devoted to CAT advancements.A 2023 journal issue of Language Sciences commem...

Activist storytellers, educators, and organizers help us learn to tell a different story for our future

Winner of the Jake Harwood Outstanding Book Award (2022) and the NCA Outstanding Book Award from the Human Communication and Technology Division (2025).In Up to Date, Tong and Van Der Heide explore the spicy, unsettling—and sometimes just exhausting—universe of online romance. As dating platforms like Bumble, Tinder, and Grindr proliferate, scholars have had to stretch their understandings of how courtship works, often arriving at fascinatingly counterintu...

This book explores the development of a feminist-informed mental health peer support website co-designed with and for young women, filling a critical gap in theoretical and practical knowledge. Gendered violence and other forms of gender inequality play a significant role in the unequal burden of mental health problems faced by women. Whilst new and emerging online mental health resources hold promise as an adjunct to traditional face-to-face mental health support, they are predominantly d...

The first three chapters of Action Research: Models, Methods, and Examples covers the history, foundations, and basics of conducting action research projects. In those chapters you will learn about the origins of action research as well as about the different methods and models of action research - from the original approaches used by Kurt Lewin and his students in the 1940s and 1950s to the diversity of current approaches to AR that are used to develop both solutions to real world problem...

L’action politique représente un champ d’investigation particulièrement fécond pour la géographie sociale. Il s’agit moins pour elle de s’attaquer à l’analyse des politiques publiques dans des logiques d’évaluation, sur la base de l’efficacité ou de l’efficience économique et opérationnelle, que de proposer une réflexion sur le sens des actions et des systèmes d’acteurs agissant dans ou sur des territoires, selon qu’ils sont cadres d’intervention de politiques sectorielles ou objets des ac...