Space For Dialogue Research Articles

Revisiting directionality in China's “outward translation”

AbstractDirectionality in translation traditionally refers to whether translation occurs from the translator's second language into their first or vice versa. This paper seeks to broaden the concept of directionality in translation by examining China's “outward translation” (i.e., the translation of works for readers outside of China), and goes beyond linguistic inquiries to encompass multifaceted dimensions related to global cultural exchange. By exploring outward translation within the Chinese context, this study contends that research on directionality should transcend mere linguistic considerations and embrace a more comprehensive analysis. Drawing insights from the Chinese perspective and employing a spatial conceptualization, this paper posits that outward translation operates within a dialogical space characterized by mutual exchange and engagement between the source culture and the target culture. Within this dynamic space, translation agents (including translators, publishers, patrons, and so on) from both source and target cultures interact, fostering reciprocal relationships and facilitating cultural dialogue. In conclusion, the paper argues that outward translation should be better defined and understood as an area of research with the potential to address the imbalanced global translation flows from English to other less‐translated languages, thereby facilitating more diverse and inclusive global knowledge production and dissemination.

Giving voice to the global majority

In this print edition 13.3, we continue our journal’s tradition and commitment to give a voice to those traditionally excluded in society. In the broader context of the dynamics of global communication and connectivity, we offer six articles from authors principally from the Global South. Their focus on creating spaces for dialogue and inclusion to those often excluded from society – the so-called subaltern voices – importantly offers an alternative to the Western populist narrative and challenges the inequalities created by globalization. It is also timely and especially important set against the backdrop of the rise of the populist right in Europe and North America which appear to pose a threat to those voices least heard across the globe.

Kinship Care dalam Keluarga ‘Imran: Kajian Hermeneutika Wilhelm Dilthey pada Surat Ali ‘Imran Ayat 37 dan 44

Kinship Care is a form of childcare by close relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, or siblings when biological parents cannot fulfill their parenting responsibilities. In Indonesia, Kinship Care often arises in the context of poverty, migration, parental death, or the inability of parents to care for their children for various reasons, including death, illness, or legal issues. This research is a desk study using Wilhelm Dilthey's hermeneutic analysis method to explore three aspects, namely Erlebnis (experience), Ausdruck (expression), and Verstehen (understanding), in Surah Ali 'Imran verses 37 and 44. The results of this study conclude that in the Kinship Care pattern, Zakariya has four patterns in caring for Maryam, security and support, space for children, financial security, dialogue and appreciation for children. Then, suggestions for further research related to Kinship Care studies to explore broader patterns using different hermeneutical theories and different figures in the Qur'an can also be taken in relevance to different contexts so that they can reach ideal patterns for Kinship Care studies.

Mengenal Etika dalam Perspektif Filsafat Islam

The purpose of this paper is to recognize ethics in the perspective of Islamic philosophy. This research uses qualitative techniques based on a literature search. The research concludes that the formulation of ethics in Islam was done by various thinkers from various branches of knowledge, including theologians, mystics, and philosophers. The contributions of these multiple disciplines show how rich and complex the tradition of ethics in Islam is, with each branch of thought offering a unique perspective on developing a framework in Islamic ethics. The shortcoming of this study is that it discusses ethics in the perspective of Islamic philosophy in outline. In future research, this study suggests going deeper into the literature of Islamic ethics specifically on the thought of Muslim philosophers so that future studies of Islamic philosophy are not limited to topics such as the metaphysics of divinity, the creation of nature, and logic. Furthermore, by giving more attention to the study of ethics in Islam, the study of Islamic philosophy has the potential to open a space for dialogue with contemporary moral issues.

The Role of Cultural Festivals in Fostering Social Cohesion in Multicultural Societies in Brazil

Cultural festivals serve as vital platforms for celebrating diversity and promoting social cohesion in multicultural societies. This study investigates the role of cultural festivals in fostering social cohesion within the context of Brazil, a nation known for its rich cultural tapestry and diverse population. A mixed-methods approach was employed, incorporating qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. In-depth interviews were conducted with festival organizers, participants, and community members to gain insights into their experiences and perceptions. Additionally, surveys were administered to assess the impact of festivals on social cohesion, measuring factors such as intergroup contact, trust, and shared identity. The findings revealed that cultural festivals play a significant role in fostering social cohesion in Brazil. Festivals provide opportunities for individuals from different cultural backgrounds to interact, exchange ideas, and celebrate their shared humanity. Participation in festivals was associated with increased intergroup contact, enhanced trust, and a stronger sense of shared identity. In conclusion, this study underscores the importance of cultural festivals as catalysts for social cohesion in multicultural societies. Festivals create spaces for intercultural dialogue, promote understanding, and foster a sense of belonging among diverse communities. The findings have implications for policymakers, community organizers, and researchers interested in leveraging cultural festivals to build more inclusive and cohesive societies.

A sovereign grant and a franchised state: Tin mineral supply chains in south Kivu of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

In resource extraction regions, nation-states tend to be depicted as the legal authority sanctioning profitable mining operations in close collaboration with corporate actors in their domestic territories. Especially in post-colonial contexts, corporate sovereignty is the term deployed by anthropologists to depict the acts of power by legally sanctioned corporate actors within a space of negotiation authorised by the state. A problem arises with this framing of sovereignty in contexts where the international norms of liberal democracy and development are violated due to constraints on the domestic authority of the state. In this scenario, the international order imposes itself to restore the authority of the state by governmentalising the security, territory, and market access of the state. Through ethnographic and field survey research in south Kivu of eastern Congo, I argue that the restoration and extension of state authority is a grant given to the state on condition of the responsible exercise of norms and practices of international markets. The tin, tantalum and tungsten (3T) mineral supply chain in south Kivu are an example of such a grant extended by international market actors and their related resource policy regimes to strengthen the state by franchising its apparatuses through practical mechanisms and discourse aimed at implementing traceability of so-called conflict minerals. Here, sovereignty is a position that is made by international market rule delivered through infrastructure in the form of 3T-mineral supply chains that franchise the state with the aim of optimising its fiscal reach and penetration among upstream mineral producers in south Kivu.

Negotiating in the metaverse—it is more than just avatars

In 2020, many companies had to adapt to virtual negotiations. Some did so more effectively than others. Now that in-person negotiation is possible again, people can use virtual negotiation spaces to save money, increase efficiency, support your team members, and improve the process. However, many companies do not know how to use the virtual spaces effectively. This article, written by a person who used virtual opportunities to negotiate long before the pandemic, offers advice and recommendations so that you can use the metaverse while preparing for, and undertaking, negotiations. From establishing "safe rooms" for document storage and sidebar conversations to "bio breaks" and decorating a virtual negotiation room, whether you use a single-space online system or a multi-floor virtual building, this article provides elements to consider and reminders to follow. You also receive caution about some of the new artificial intelligence assistants that may require legal or other approvals to use.

Locality as a space for negotiation and resistance in local television

Background: Local television has an important role in displaying local culture and identity. This role is becoming crucial amidst the dominance of Jakarta’s national television, which not only broadcasts certain cultures and groups but also tends to be biased. Purpose: This study was conducted to explain how locality is used as a means of negotiation and resistance of local television against the domination of national television. Method: This research was conducted using qualitative methods by taking local television, RBTV, part of the national television network Kompas TV, as a case. Data was collected with in-depth interviews, observations, and documents. Result: This research shows that although local television has limited broadcast time (5 hours), it creatively uses locality to negotiate and resist the domination of national television. RBTV uses three tactics to bargain its position with Kompas TV. First, they negotiate the presenter’s standard. For instance, RBTV welcomes presenters who speak at standard speed but does not accept people with oriental faces and Jakarta accents. Second, they broadcast local communities to increase engagement with the audience. Third, they broadcast local culture, such as tradition, customs, food, and fashion. Conclusion: RBTV makes the most of its time to serve and show the local community. Something that Jakarta national television cannot do well. Implications: Local television has become an “arena” for cultural battles and acts as an actor. The thesis of imperialism and cultural domination in the context of RBTV fails. This research suggests the importance of studies with a local perspective so that the dialogue between local, national and global cultures can be investigated.

Windows of Empathy: Creating Mediated Spaces for Education and Dialogue

In this article, I address the inadequacies in how we currently conceptualize spaces for dialogue and debate around issues involving race and religion. Even in a climate where many organizations now acknowledge equity, diversity, and inclusion requirements, there are still numerous challenges, particularly for racialized individuals, including those who may experience overlapping forms of oppression. Drawing on concepts such as intersectionality, muted group theory, and the public sphere, I suggest that many existing channels and approaches are especially inadequate for academics and activists who are racialized or belong to religions that are marginalized in Western societies, such as Islam. These avenues do not allow for an articulation of the complex, sometimes contradictory realities lived by these individuals, where choosing a seemingly progressive side consistently and publicly may mean disowning or disadvantaging one’s own family or community members. Ultimately, I argue both that we must reconsider the potential for education and dialogue enabled by seemingly one-way platforms, such as film and television, and that the platform is less important than the approach we bring to using it, since increasingly we must prioritize windows for empathy within any mediated spaces we employ for learning or dialogue.

Exploring interreligious dialogue spaces and pathways for peace in Ghana

Exploring interreligious dialogue spaces and pathways for peace in Ghana

Navigating becoming people of color in higher education: a duoethnography of three international students of color

In this paper, we explored our experiences navigating new identities as international students of color during our doctoral programs. Duoethnography, functioning as a dialogic space, facilitated the unpacking of our experiences and our understanding of how race/racism shapes our racial identities and everyday experiences. The paper is organized based on the following themes: 1) Duoethnography as a dialogic space, (2) awareness of racial identities, (3) English as a changing transnational object, (4) a sense of continual liminality, and (5) agency to reclaim identities. The paper provides implications for literature and practices, particularly addressing the challenges faced by international students of color navigating their intersecting identities in the landscape of U.S. academia. It also extends insights for professors, academic advisors, international student offices, and associated entities aiming to act as allies for international students of color.

PATIENTS’ AND PHYSIOTHERAPISTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF TREATMENT OUTCOMES AND EXPERIENCES IN EPISODES OF LOW BACK PAIN

Statement of purpose of study and backgroundAs the treatment of low back pain (LBP) continues to evolve, there is greater recognition of the importance of optimising the therapeutic relationship to better deliver improved patient outcomes. Contextual effects, such as communication, have been shown to influence the therapeutic relationship, but it is not known how these factors evolve over time. This study analysed interviews from two studies (one cross-sectional and one longitudinal) to explore patients’ and physiotherapists’ perspectives of treatment outcomes and experiences in episodes of LBP in the same dialogic space. The objective was to explore the alignment between these perceptions to identify factors that influence the therapeutic relationship over time.Summary of methods used and resultsTwo secondary thematic analyses were undertaken, one analysing cross-sectional data and the other analysing longitudinal data, from an existing data set from the programme: “Exploring the relationship between communication and clinical decision-making in physiotherapy consultations for back pain”. All data were thematically analysed and organised using a framework approach.Six themes emerged from the cross-sectional data reporting consistency of opinion in the initial consultation stages, but highlighting inadequate patient involvement in shared decision making. Four main themes emerged from the longitudinal data, all of which reported interactional fears and anxieties identified on both the parts of the patient and the physiotherapist.ConclusionThese findings suggest that failing to involve the patient in adequately personalised treatment from the initial consultation may lead to diagnosis hunting and stereotyping behaviours within the therapeutic relationship, in turn leading to increased health resource usage.Conflicts of interestNoneSources of FundingThe primary data set was collected in a research programme funded by Arthritis Research UK (now Versus Arthritis).

A Comparative Study on the Use of Evaluative That Patterns in Abstracts by Expert and Novice Writers

This study investigates the differences in how expert and novice writers use evaluative that-complement clauses in abstracts. The research analyzed 150 research article abstracts and 100 master’s thesis abstracts in the social sciences, applying the model of “evaluative that patterns” with the assistance of the MAXQDA annotation tool and ChatGPT retrieval mode. The analysis reveals that both groups often use this pattern to present their findings, typically attributing evaluations to abstract sources. They primarily express epistemic stances through verbal predicates. However, experts demonstrate significantly greater use of every element (entity, source, stance, and expression) of this feature. Experts are more inclined to use human resources and discourse act verbs and prefer to evaluate prior studies and methods, expressing more tentative stances to foster a dialogic space. These findings suggest that expertise influences rhetorical strategies for evaluating research materials. The study highlights pedagogical implications, offering valuable insights for novice writers in the social sciences to help them understand how to effectively use linguistic resources to convey evaluative claims and establish authoritative authorial stances.

The Organizational Field as a Dialogical Space

The Organizational Field as a Dialogical Space

Troubling masculinities: a feminist, relational approach to researching sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers

ABSTRACT This article reflects on my political and methodological choices around interviews and the empirical insights they have yielded into the causes and consequences of peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). I explore a feminist, relational approach that pursues generative, collaborative discussions with interlocutors during which inquiry and analysis are co-developed. I discuss how this approach created better spaces for collaborative dialogue and meaning-making with my interlocutors and set foundations for a relational analysis by allowing me to hear the discordant perspectives of institutions and local communities about the causes, consequences and experiences of SEA. I outline two empirical arguments this approach generated, to illustrate the method and its outcomes, and show that listening for how people experience the structures and power of peacekeeping generates robust analysis and can ground a dynamic relationship between researchers, communities and institutions which can be a valuable mechanism for challenging institutional preferences for instrumental analyses.

Decentering Food Pedagogies

In this collaborative essay, five gastrofeminists from various disciplines, mainly literature, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and diverse locations of Global South and Global North, share four collaborative experiments built around two axioms: to integrate experiences of students as gendered and racialized subjects in their experiential learning irrespective of disciplinary boundaries, and to integrate critical feminist scholarship that destabilizes ethnocentric notions around consumption, production, and distribution of food. Through the four collaborative experiments: students’ food voice, autobiographies, collective kusina, and food walks, the pedagogues bring embodied lived experience in conversation with critical pedagogy, expanding some of the foundational ideas of feminist pedagogy, especially of not treating theory, research, and experience as independent silos. Each of these collaborative experiments calls for a need to create dialogic space through a collaborative co-learning process and offers a decolonial reading of texts through recognizing the difference and diversity of our classrooms.

Designing for the materialization of networked learning spaces

The potential of a Networked Learning (NL) space comes into being when participants establish communication, build connections among each other, and create a dialogic space. Moving from this premise, this article poses a complex question: How to design for the materialization of a NL space? It bases its theoretical framework on Bakhtin’s idea of centrifugal and centripetal forces, the concepts of network core and periphery, as well as the idea of the strength of weak ties. Through these lenses, the article presents a cross-case analysis of two projects aiming at technology education in Denmark. Forces, connections, and movements are exposed and analyzed, showing the importance of unstructured communication processes that nurture a networked community. These results lead to new speculations for future educational design of NL spaces.

School Bullying and Violence: Challenges and Perspectives for Building an Inclusive School

This article discusses the relationship between bullying, school violence, and the construction of an inclusive school. Initially, bullying and school violence are defined, exploring their multifactorial causes, such as family problems, low self-esteem, and exposure to media violence. The negative consequences for victims, aggressors, and witnesses are highlighted, emphasizing the need for a safe and welcoming school environment. Next, the concept of school inclusion, its principles, and challenges, such as lack of resources and inadequate teacher training, are discussed. The relationship between bullying/violence and exclusion is analyzed, highlighting how these phenomena perpetuate discrimination and compromise the integral development of students. Finally, the article presents strategies to prevent and combat bullying and school violence, such as the implementation of clear policies, teacher training, the creation of dialogue spaces, and the promotion of a culture of peace. The involvement of family and community is highlighted as fundamental to the success of these actions.

Safe Space for Dialogue—A Practice for Connected Consciousness and Compassion

This paper analyzes Safe Space for Dialogue as a group practice for accessing connected consciousness through the safe expression of emotional experience, empathic listening, and compassionate witnessing. It highlights the importance of connected consciousness to overcome architectures of separation that breed fear, isolation, domination, and instrumentalization of relationships. Connected consciousness is an intersubjective, relational experience that makes possible connection, compassion, and empathic and generative dialogue. This article offers an outline of the main qualities of connected consciousness—safety, empathy and compassion, attunement, and resonance; it analyzes how the practice of Safe Space for Dialogue develops expanded awareness and compassion, supporting participants’ access to the connected consciousness.

Learning to the rhythm: On the potential of music in fostering relations in the classroom

AbstractThis article draws on a case study of a third‐year geography course to explore the potential of music in fostering relational pedagogy in higher education. We argue that the reciprocal nature of music sharing generates a dialogical space that allows for multiple relations to be developed between the learners and their selves, among students and peers, between learners and teachers, as well as between students and the materials they study and the wider world. Furthermore, music encourages an approach to pedagogy that is emancipatory and which is characterised by genuine care, humility and trust.