Society and Politics in Editorial Cartoons

Inaugural Editorial: Politics and Governance

We are proud to welcome our readers, contributors and reviewers to this inaugural issue of Politics and Governance, published by Librello Publishing House— a peer reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the study of politics in the national, regional and global realm, and the modes and methods of governance in all its manifestations. We are thrilled to be so ably supported by an editorial bo...

Beyond Self Containment: On the Politics of Culture and Identity in a Glocal Society

As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. It draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, Foucauldian, an...

Editorial : Media and Promotional Society

Editorial political cartoons in Australia: social representations & and the visual depiction of essentialism.

Six million migrants from over 170 countries have resettled in Australia since 1945 ensuring religious diversity is now a hallmark of Australia's population. However, not all religious groups are perceived in the same way. In this paper, we explore how representational processes differentially essentialise religious groups, in particular how some groups are ascribed an underlying nature that ir...

Doctors, politics and society: historical essays

taking such a large canvas to fill out that it really fails to say anything new and does not even always acknowledge its sources. But the defect is compensated in the discussion of the eating habits and behaviour of the young, a social group less studied in medical history than ought to have been the case. Its last section is titled, rhetorically, 'Do doctors make their patients sick?' and the ...