The nexus among place, conflict and communication in a globalising world

Interrogating Place, Conflict and Communication in the Contemporary World Places stand tall in human consciousness and social imaginaries. Places are integrally and intimately associated with our identity development and meaning-making processes, and they are also crucial to building inclusive and productive communities. In doing so, places operate as sites with which we form powerful and empowering bonds of association and affinity, sometimes throughout our lives, and as settings in which acts of continuing memorialisation are performed. This is the case regardless of whether these places are physical or virtual, and whether they are experienced synchronously, asynchronously or retrospectively