Encounters with Complexity

Addressing the transformative nature of connectivity for life in a complex world, this series offers a meaningful account of the sharp discontinuities, unforeseen events, and random changes associated with the interdependence and interconnectedness of socio-political, technological, and biophysical systems.

Offering timely and thoughtful analyses and a broad thematic focus, it probes the dynamic interactions, tensions, contradictions, and possibilities produced by the multiple intersections of economy, society, and politics and offers unique perspectives from new and established scholars to produce illuminating and perceptive accounts.

Drawing on insights from Complexity Thinking (CT), books in this series explore links between the global and the local, the West and the non-West, the formal and informal, legal and illicit, past and present, markets and societies, resources and the environmental dimensions of the turbulence provoked by the growing connectivity of the world.