<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Confronted with serious challenges to human survival, communication should be mobilized to rescue the planet’s future. This requires the development of new forms of discursive power that shift from a culture of fear to a culture of hope. This can be achieved through global networks of those urban movements that increasingly move beyond their local political environments. The global city can emerge as a crucial site for the claim to human survival in dignity.</p></abstract>

Confronted with serious challenges to human survival, communication should be mobilized to rescue the planet’s future. This requires the development of new forms of discursive power that shift from a culture of fear to a culture of hope. This can be achieved through global networks of those urban movements that increasingly move beyond their local political environments. The global city can emerge as a crucial site for the claim to human survival in dignity.

Global Survival

Professor Emeritus for International Communication at the University of Amsterdam

Nordicom Review

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Confronted with serious challenges to human survival, communication should be mobilized to rescue the planet’s future. This requires the development of new...

Global Survival

Published Online: Jul 30, 2013

Page range: 219 - 228

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0037

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