Poetics of Relation examines identities formed through encounter without requiring complete transparency or final synthesis. Glissant’s framework helps distinguish the clarity needed for responsible action from demands that people become fully reducible to institutional categories, preserving difference alongside translation, coordination, and accountability.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainAcross Cultures
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.