Books
Karlberg, Michael (2020). Constructing Social Reality: An Inquiry into the Normative Foundations of Social Change. Ottawa: Association for Bahá’í Studies.
Karlberg, Michael (2018). Más allá de la cultura del enfrentamiento. Spanish translation of Beyond the Culture of Contest by Sepehr Behrooz.
Karlberg, Michael (2015). 超越竞争文化. Mandarin translation and publication of Beyond the Culture of Contest by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press.
Karlberg, Michael (2004). Beyond the Culture of Contest. Oxford: George Ronald.
Children’s Literature (Peace and Social Change series)
Karlberg, Michael (2014). The Game. Bundoora, Victoria: Bahá’í Publications Australia.
Karlberg, Michael (2007). Rooth Sees a Trooth. Bundoora, Victoria: Bahá’í Publications Australia.
Book Chapters
Karlberg, Michael & Derik Smith (2022). Responding to Injustice with Constructive Agency. In The World of the Bahá’í Faith, Robert Stockman (ed.) Routledge.
Karlberg, Michael & Todd Smith (2022). A Culture of Learning. In The World of the Bahá’í Faith, Robert Stockman (ed.) Routledge.
Karlberg, Michael (2020). Reframing Human Dignity. In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights, Hoda Mahmoudi and Michael Penn (eds.) Emerald Publishing, 35-48.
Karlberg, Michael (2018). Media and Public Discourse: Normative Foundations. In Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition, Geoffrey Cameron and Benjamin Schewel (eds.) Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 71-95.
Karlberg, Michael & Bita Correa (2016). Development as Systematic Learning and Capacity Building. In Education, Learning and the Transformation of Development, Amy Skinner, Matt Baillie-Smith, Eleanor Brown, and Tobias Troll (eds.) Routledge, 19-35.
Khozein, Todd, Michael Karlberg & Carrie Freeman (2013). From Competition to Collaboration: Toward a New Framework for Entrepreneurship. In Creating Good Work: The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy, Ron Schultz (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 105-115.
Karlberg, Michael (2012). Reframing Public Discourses for Peace and Justice. In Forming a Culture of Peace: Reframing Narratives of Intergroup Relations, Equity, and Justice, Karina Korostelina (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 15-42.
Karlberg, Michael (2007). Western Liberal Democracy as New World Order? In The Bahá’í World: 2005-2006, Robert Weinberg (ed.), Haifa, Israel: World Center Publications, 133-156. (click for Spanish translation) (click for Persian translation)
Journal Articles
Karlberg, Michael (2020). The Constructive Imaginary. Journal of Bahá’í Studies 30 (3), 9-23.
Karlberg, Michael (2010). Constructive Resilience: The Baha’i Response to Oppression. Peace & Change 35 (2), 222-257. (click for Persian translation)
Karlberg, Michael (2010). The Press as a Consultative Forum: A Contribution to Normative Press Theory. Bahá’í Studies Review16, 29-42.
Smith, Todd. & Michael Karlberg (2009). Articulating a Consultative Epistemology: Toward a Reconciliation of Truth and Relativism. Journal of Bahá’í Studies 19 (1), 59-99.
Karlberg, Michael (2008). Discourse, Identity, and Global Citizenship. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 20 (3), 310-320. (click for Persian translation)
Karlberg, Michael (2007). Contextual Media Literacy Revisited. Academic Exchange Quarterly 11(3), 165-170. (received “Editor’s Choice” award)
Karlberg, Michael & Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims (2006). Global Citizenship and Humanities Scholarship: Toward a Twenty-First Century Agenda. International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review. 2 (3).
Johnson, Kirk & Michael Karlberg (2006). Rethinking Power and Caste in Rural India. The International Scope Review 7 (12), 1-15.
Karlberg, Michael & Buell, Leslie (2005). Deconstructing the ‘War of All Against All’: The Prevalence and Implications of War Metaphors and Other Adversarial News Schema in TIME, Newsweek, and Maclean’s. Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies 12 (1), 22-39.
Karlberg, Michael (2005). The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power: Peace as Discourse Intervention. International Journal of Peace Studies 10 (1), 1-25.
Karlberg, Michael (2005). Elevating the Service in University Service Learning. Journal of the Northwest Communication Association 34 (Spring), 16-36.
Karlberg, Michael (2003). The Paradox of Protest in a Culture of Contest. Peace & Change 28 (3) 319-347.
Karlberg, Michael. (2002). Partisan Branding and Media Spectacle: Implications for Democratic Communication. Democratic Communique 18 (summer), 1-18.
Karlberg, Michael (1997). News and Conflict: How Adversarial News Frames Limit Public Understanding of Environmental Issues. Alternatives: Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment 23(1), 22-27.
Karlberg, Michael (1996). Remembering the Public in Public Relations Research: From Theoretical to Operational Symmetry. Journal of Public Relations Research 8(4), 263-278.
Karlberg, Michael & Hackett, Robert (1996). Canceling Each Other Out? Interest Group Perceptions of the News Media. Canadian Journal of Communication 21(4), 461-472.
Karlberg, Michael (1994). Toward a New Environmental Stewardship. World Order 25(4), 21-32.
Encyclopedia Articles
Karlberg, Michael (2012). Discourse Theory and Peace. Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology, Daniel Christie (ed.), Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing.
Karlberg, Michael (2009). Sustainability and the Bahá’í Faith. Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Willis Jenkins & Whitney Bauman (eds.), Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.
Ferreira, Marcos & Michael Karlberg (2007). Bahá’í Faith. Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, Paul Joseph (ed.), SAGE.
Invited Presentations
TEDx Talk: Beyond the Culture of Contest: A Critical Juncture in Human History (video recording, see transcript here)
Correlating the Bahá’í Response to Oppression with other Nonviolent Responses, By invitation of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, for presentation at a Symposium on the Rights of Freedom of Religion or Belief of Bahá’ís
Podcast: On Radical Constructive Agency: An Exploration of Bahá’í Praxis, from a podcast series on “Religion and Thoughtful Activism,” recorded at the Vancouver School of Theology’s annual Inter-Religious Studies Conference, 2021.
WWU College of Social Science and Humanity’s Dean’s Lecture Series: Denial of Education as a Strategy of Oppression: Exploring Human Rights Abuses in Iran (video recording).
Online Public Scholarship
Karlberg, Michael (2022) The Pursuit of Social Justice. The Bahá’í World.
Karlberg, M. & S. Zabihi. (2019). Bellingham Racial History Timeline website.
Great Transition Initiative, curated dialogues:
- Opening essay by Karlberg, M. (December 2014). Meaning, Religion, and a Great Transition.
- Response essay by Karlberg, M. (January 2024). How Movements Learn. (Response to “Global Tapestry of Alternatives: Weaving Transformative Connections” by Ashish Kothari and Shrishtee Bajpai.)
- Response essay by Karlberg, M. (May 2023). Narratives of Unity. (Response to “New Ways of Seeing the World: Big History and Great Transition” by David Christian.)
- Response essay by Karlberg, M. (August 2021). An “Us” without a “Them.” (Response to “Can Human Solidarity Globalize?” by Richard Falk.)
- Response essay by Karlberg, M. (May 2021). The University of Movements. (Response to “The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want” by Stephen Sterling.)
- Response essay by Karlberg, M. (December 2017). The Problem of Action. (Response to “How Do We Get There” by Paul Raskin.)
- Response essay by Karlberg, M. (February 2015). On Degrowth. (Response to “The Degrowth Alternative” by Giorgos Kallis.)
- Response essay by Karlberg, M. (June 2014.) The Semiotic Dimension of Global Citizenship. (Response to “Global Citizenship: Plausible Fears and Necessary Dreams” by Robert Paehlke.)