Research Interests
- Anthropological Linguistics
- Anthropology of Gender
- Anthropology of space
- Consciousness
- Cosmology
- Educational Anthropology
- Environmental Anthropology
- Fieldwork in Anthropology
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Adult Education
- E-learning
- Inclusive education
- Instructional Design
- Internationalisation
- Learning Development
- Learning Progressions
- Learning Technology
- Organizational Learning
- Peer Support
- School and student wellbeing
- Science Education
- Social Networking
- Student Motivation And Engagement
- Teaching-learning interactions
- Campaigning
- Comparative Military Systems
- Doctrine
- Force Planning
- Game Theory
- Generalship
- Joint Warfare Studies
- Leadership
- Military Ethics
- Military History
- Military Intelligence
- Special Operations And Low Intensity Conflict
- Strategy
- Tactics
- Critical Theory and Frankfurt School
- Hermeneutics
- History of Logic
- History of Philosophy of Science
- Meaning of Life
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy Of Education
- Philosophy Of Psychology
- Philosophy Of Psychology
- Political Philosophy
- Political Parties
- Civics
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Human Rights
- Humanitarianism
- Ideology
- Intelligence Studies
- International Relations
- European Studies
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- History
- International Political Economy
- International Regimes
- International Relations Theory
- International Security
- Interstate and Intrastate War
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Social Indicators
- Policy Analysis/Policy Studies
- Political Behavior
- Political Coalitions
- Political Culture
- Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism
- Political Parties
- Political Philosophy
- Anarchism
- Civic Education
- Conservatism
- Democratic Theory
- Fascism
- Ideology Studies
- Liberalism
- Republicanism
- Social Contract Theory
- Subsidiarity
- Political Violence and Terrorism
- Politics and Literature
- Public Administration
- Public Policy
- Racial and Ethnic Politics
- Research Methods
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Art Practice as Research
- Bricolage
- Hermeneutics
- Internet research methods
- Macrocomparative Analysis
- Mixed Methods
- Qualitative methodology
- Autoethnography
- Case Study Research
- Conversation Analysis
- Grounded Theory
- Phenomenology
- Qualitative Methods
- Research Design
- Research Ethics
- Social Representations
- Social Research Methods and Methodology
- Focus Group discussions
- Macrocomparative Analysis
- Participatory Research
- Repertory Grids
- Theory of Planned Behaviour
- Social sciences and values
- Cross-Culture Phenomena---morality, transfer of practices across cultures, info frame changes thru cultures,
- Culture Disasters---the great and brilliant made fools of by culture
- Intercultural Communication
- Measuring Cultures---strength, health, neurosis, permeability, persistence power,
- Subcultures
- The Iceberg Effect---culture power from automated unconscious self contents beyond awareness
- The Shallowness Effect---culture "settings" changed by simple trainings
- Definitions of Adulthood: undoing socialization effects, demystifying roles, making one's self
- Self-ness Excesses--Measurement of--too much, too little, too imbalanced, too balanced
- Self-ness Profiles: being a self across plural media, cultures, relations, frames
- Social Identity
- Social identity processes
- The Identity Prison--identities as cutting off most of the world = harmful narrownesses
- The Self of Groups
- The Special Case of Self-less Selves: in service, monatery, abuse, theatre state polities like Japan & Tonga & Bali
- Butterfly, Threshold, Last Straw Effects in Social, Institutional, Personal Change
- Diverse Particular Models of Creativity found in Societies, Institutions, Persons Changing
- Ecosystem Dynamics in Social, Institutional, & Personal Change
- Educative Social Change Mechanisms/Groups--the West's bias for political means violated
- Global Social Change
- Kinds of Leadership--taking credit for changes or starting/guiding them
- Measuring Change Degrees--appearance or reality or relativity (frameworks) of change
- Natural Selection Style Evolution Processes in Societies & Institutions & Persons
- Non-Lineary System Dynamics Avalanche Events in Societies, Institutions, Persons
- Social Automata Models of Social Processes of Establishment and Change
- Social Revolution Studies
- Symbol & Conscious Awareness as Change Accelerants
- Causal Mechanisms: in social Theory, Practice, Levels, Functions, Genres, Agents
- Critical Social Theory
- Functionalism
- Sociocultural Theory