This is a guest post by Loic De Canniere, author of The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare In 2025, eleven of the world’s twenty fastest-growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa – including South Sudan and…
Engaging the Citizenry
This is an interview with Sarah Murray and Lachlan Umbers, editors of Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy What inspired this edited collection on Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy? Australian democracy depends fundamentally upon an active, engaged citizenry. In this respect,…
The Silent Scene of Reading: Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience
Nathan Wainstein interviews Bryan Counter, author of Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience Nathan Wainstein: At the outset of the book, you say that it ‘will approach aesthetic experience with a focus on life’. I find this interest in immediate or…
Tackling the Challenges of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long and Joseph A. Pisani, authors of The Responsibility of Reason in Leadership, Management, and Life Long Learning Emotions affect stakeholders throughout an organisation. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes…
About The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect: Five Critical Conversations
This is an author interview by Fernando G Herrero, author of The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect. What was the assembling idea behind this work? I was in the middle of the PhD at Duke University in the…
Finding Oneself in Art’s Visionary Moment
This is a guest post by Sidney Homan, author of Art’s Visionary Moment I speak here only for myself, not out of modesty or even a fear of generalization, but because I have had increasing doubts about the value of…