Benet Davetian

Benet Davetian

·Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Prince Edward Island, Canada; Director of Institute for Civilizational Research; Host of Charlottetown Conversation Salon. Teaching Areas: Social theory, self and society, collective behavior and social movements, media and society, social change. Research areas: sociology of emotions, civility and society, globalization, transnational social movements. ·D.Phil. in sociology (social theory), University of Sussex. British Commonwealth Scholarship (1999-2002) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (1999-2002). ·Post-Doctoral Fellow of SSHRC, Canada (2002-2004). ·Publications: Books: The Seventh Circle (1996)…a study of escalating conflict….winner of the Mordecai Richler Prize for the Best Book of the Year. Current completed manuscript: Civility - A Multicultural Genealogy (350 pages). Various articles in journals, including Sociological Research Online. Please search 'davetian' on www.google.com for further details or visit www.bdavetian.com (my academic and theory website).

Email: benet.davetian@pei.sympatico.ca