Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1896529
Christian Stokke
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes discourses of everyday racism and colorblind racism on an internet forum. While skin color is invisible online, identities as black, white and shades in between show through participants’ perspectives and communicative behavior in discussions about racism. Critical race theory and whiteness studies argue that there is a perception gap between black and white perspectives on racism, linked to positionality in social structures, which influences experiences and shapes perceptions of the world. This paper shows how black participants in online discussions tend to be more conscious of racial issues and skilled at recognizing racism, while whites often reflect a colorblind discourse that denies structural racism and reproduces everyday racism. Starting with critical perspectives of conscious blacks on the forum and drawing on Cultural Discourse Studies and critical race theory, this paper examines power relations and cultural perspectives underlying white participants’ claims, perspectives and speech acts.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1885417
Gary L. Kreps
ABSTRACT Health communication is a crucial social process for responding to devastating pandemics, which demand timely, accurate, and culturally sensitive communication that meaningfully informs coordinated and effective responses. The current coronavirus pandemic has not been responded to well in many parts of the world due, in large part, to ineffective communication, resulting in high rates of infection, death, and suffering. This article examines the communication demands of responding to pandemics and expands upon Mowlana’s point that pandemics demand novel responsive programs and policies to adapt to serious challenges. The article applies Mowlana’s examination of power issues that emerge during pandemics by focusing on the power of health and risk communication, sharing relevant health information, promoting sensemaking, and encouraging coordination in response to pandemics. Relevant health information can empower effective responses to pandemics by enhancing understanding about health threats, enabling development of evidence-based strategies for responding to threats, and providing guidance for averting and addressing future pandemics. This article is grounded in the systems principle of requisite variety and community-based sense-making tenets of Weick’s model of organizing. The development of strategic communication responses to pandemics is shown to provide important opportunities to promote international health diplomacy through the use of soft power.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1863415
H. Mowlana
ABSTRACT For many people around the world, the scale of the coronavirus crisis called to patterns of escalating cultural problems and polarization we have faced. This article looks at the cultural and power dimensions of this crisis in the context of soft power theory and makes a number of conceptual suggestions for future research.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1857766
Tom Bowers
Beatrice Dube’s article directs those engaged in the study of discourse to an important line of inquiry: while states and governments may evolve political policies may not, and the persistence of these policies, including those that continue practices of inequality, may be rooted in the continuation of certain practices of discourse. In her analysis of the inability of water allocation reform in South Africa to ‘promote equitable access of water for all,’ Dube moves the discussion away from associating the policy’s failure with structural constraints, leading us instead to the persistence of a discourse that promotes what she characterizes as ‘deficit thinking.’ This discourse, espoused through various strata of South African society, defines black individuals as incapable of being ‘active and productive water users as well as competent government officials.’ Dube’s research offers a clear example of the influence of discourse in shaping bodies, beliefs, and practices, but it also leaves us to consider the availability of alternatives and challenges to the prevailing ideology and discourse. In this brief commentary, I want to promote discussion of the possibilities afforded by the recent turn to the material as a means to identify the emergence of public agency and alternative discourses and the potential for such material-discursive becoming to advance social change. With the increasing contemporary presence of a wide range of material objects central to human existence, numerous intellectuals during the past decade have positioned matter as an active force that constitutes not just the material world but also the social world (Latour 2005; Bennett 2010; Barad 2007: Braidotti 2013). Granting matter agency is driven not just by the ubiquity of materiality but also by the suggested limits of the linguistic and representational construction of reality. More than just a product of the symbolic, reality is also constituted through the relations among objects, with the becoming of the world a product of other-than-human actions. The intellectual movement, which for the sake of conciseness I will refer to as new materialism, is not without detractors, with some questioning the merits of the approach based on definitions of agency, a neglect of power, a reliance on metaphysical attunement, and an overly optimistic promise of a more ethical and just world (Malm 2018; Lettow 2017; Rekret 2016; Washick et al. 2015). As with all knowledge work, the challenges to new materialism should not be cause to negate the approach but should rather serve as prompts by which to reconsider and refine the relation between matter and discourse. Dube’s example of water allocation reform in South Africa offers an excellent opportunity to further explore the relation,
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1859518
Héctor Valverde Martínez
ABSTRACT
The inclusion-exclusion of visitors in museum spaces since the introduction of digital devices has its correlation with the narratives that give origin to the Mexican museums, which are institutions with roots so deep that perceive the changes as a prosthetic element that is added to the already proven formula of making and understanding the (traditional) museum. In that sense, this text seeks to identify the narratives and the political, social, economic and communicative implications that the introduction of digital devices as interpretative tools in museum spaces has. The results obtained from a job carried out at the International Baroque Museum in the summer of 2019, in which a series of interviews were applied to the visitors and museum staff, as well as participating in observation exercises which will serve as a reference to illustrate the statement that museums are institutions that try to maintain the traditional relationship between visitors and museums despite the introduction of digital devices, reinforcing the exclusion by maintaining the forms of expression inherited by the colonial past of the museum.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-27DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1835926
B. Dube
ABSTRACT The article focuses on how deficit thinking emerges from the statements made by some of the participants of a study on water allocation reform in South Africa. It draws from interviews and focus group discussions from a select few participants of the qualitative study. The application of the deconstructive strategy to analyse data revealed perceptions of deficiencies in the capacities of Black people in agriculture as well as in government offices. The study found that expressions of concern regarding threats on the environment when and if water is allocated to Black communities were based on assumptions of inherent deficiencies within the Black communities. This article characterises this perception as ‘deficit thinking’. The article provides the basis for such characterisation by explaining the origins and meaning of the concept of deficit thinking. It argues for the need to consider the impact of social forces such as apartheid discriminatory practices on the socio-economic constitution of the Black person. The article concludes that deficit thinking needs to be considered and confronted as a challenge trumping water reform. It warns of the implicitness and covertness of deficit thinking and recommends that discourses reflect the realities of post-1994 South Africa which emerged from colonial and apartheid rule.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1825453
Yuan Ping
China’s growing economic, political and military strength has captured worldwide attention, engendering debate about its geopolitical implications (Power and Mohan 2010). The news media play a crucial role in people’s perception of China as a rising power which, in turn, has affected the course of international politics and foreign policy (Zhang 2010). For years, China has sought to promote a positive image of itself to the outside world (Barr 2012), as events and decisions in China increasingly have an impact on politics and economics globally. Understanding how Chinese society is developing has thus become a key issue for scholars and policymakers around the globe. Brand China in the Media and Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China are two comprehensive studies of this growing area of research, offer critical insights into Chinese discourse studies and illustrate the crucial role played by discourses in the transformation of Chinese society and identity. They also both unveil the strategies and sociocultural implications of political and media discourses. This review article first gives a brief overview of each book and then compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between these two books, considering thematic, conceptual and methodological dimensions.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1835925
M. Spotti, Eline van Rooij
ABSTRACT This contribution focuses on the discursive construction of refugees within the process of civic integration in the Netherlands. The study – that uses interpretive ethnographic means of data collection and analysis – takes as its case in point the Common Room, a communal building belonging to a regionally supported foundation meant to facilitate – through the support of volunteers – the integration of refugees in the South of the Netherlands. Following the discourse practices present among both managers and volunteers there, our analysis argues that the Dutch language courses held at the Common Room work toward the discursive enregisterment of refugees into a broader sense of Dutchness, that is, into an ideological meta-pragmatic discursive apparatus that spells out how and what someone should do in order to be(come) Dutch. These bottom-up integrational practices are used as a point of reflection for drawing considerations on the body of top-down policies that have been authored and authorized by the Dutch government in the past decade in order to achieve refugees’ integration into Dutch society.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1830999
M. Spotti, S. Kroon
Classrooms and schools, whether falling in or outside regular education, endorse the task of presenting those who attend them with legitimate knowledge in a given historical context (Young 2009). T...
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Pub Date : 2020-08-10DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2020.1803887
Dominic Busch
ABSTRACT Contemporary epistemological debates on how to research interculturality frequently draw on either side of a schism between positivist and essentialist approaches vs. critical and poststructuralist paradigms. The debate lives from its retrospective either-or character dividing the history of research on interculturality into a first epoch of epistemological naiveté and a more recent age of ethical consideration and reflection. This dichotomy however is too simplistic, and it blurs our views from perceiving a more complex present and past reality. This study assumes that research on interculturality has always built on normative orientations from social discourse and that this discourse has been under permanent change. Accordingly, it assumes that there has not been a paradigm shift or break in research but that this shift has only been used as a hegemonic instrument in inner-disciplinary discourses. This study re-traces this changing discourse of intercultural ethics using a grounded theory approach to central literature from the field. Since the 1960s, four epochs of different normative orientations have been identified from pragmatism via modesty and then a new hope up to a most recent epoch of new explorations. This results in a more complex picture of the normative discourse on interculturality beyond the positivism-poststructuralism debate.
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