Disruptive Discourse Research Articles

Practice-Based Methodological Design for Performance-Composition and Interdisciplinary Music Research

Practice-based research has gained increasing prominence in the field of creative arts enquiry. Its engagement has fueled disruptive discourse on its nature, methodology and application in music research. Textbooks and journal publications on practice in arts-based research and a host of eminent practitioner-scholars have contributed to this nascent field of study. Several of these publications focus on the creative arts industry with fewer discourse on practice-based research approaches in the subdomains of music. This article deliberates on the multi-facets of practice-based approaches in performance, composition, and interdisciplinary music research. It shares the process of crafting methodological designs that encapsulate research in and of practice. Keywords that frame practice-based techniques include terms such as praxis, divergent and multi-methodological processes, design thinking, and research about/through/for practice as represented by performative-compositional artefacts and their accompanying discourse. Two exemplars are discussed. It argues that practice-oriented research transcends discipline borders encompassing interdisciplinary domains within multidisciplinary co-creational practice. In the author’s music-health studies, she views the interdisciplinarity of science-arts research as interpolated dimensions of collaborative scientific knowledge within an embodied cultural space that yields transformative creativities of translational research to reach its targeted community of users. Practice-centred research in music therefore embraces spheres of investigations with research-informed practice as its focus and its artefacts and discourse as inputs of and outputs from that research, incorporating the overarching paradigms of practice-led research, practice-based research, and creative research in the performing arts.

Disruptive innovation discourse: are academic research and news media on the same page?

ABSTRACT The research aims to explore and compare the framing of the disruptive innovation phenomenon by the business media and the academic literature. For this purpose, 1160 news articles available on the Factiva database and 228 academic papers published in the Web of Science in the last 20 years were content analysed through an automated text-mining method. The results revealed that the representation of the disruptive innovation phenomenon in the news media diverges with the academic discourse despite the common vocabulary. While researchers describe disruptive innovation as a process/business model involving an improved performance, the media has not yet evolved from the technology-based perspective. Also, the media tends to focus on the features of the disruptive products and services but fails to discuss their value to the market. The framing of the social side of disruptive innovation also differs. The study offers three contributions: (i) it reveals the main concepts representing the term ‘disruptive innovation’ in the media and scholar discourse, (ii) it suggests future academic research avenues based on media interest and (iii) it emphasises media coverage gaps stemming from its failure to communicate the advances in the academic research on disruptive innovation.

Dialogue as a Disruptive Discourse Oriented Toward Justice.

Dialogue as a Disruptive Discourse Oriented Toward Justice.

Unhomely Home, Unhomely Women: The Precariousness of Being, Belonging, and Becoming in the Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction of Nayomi Munaweera

This paper recognizes an existential anxiety and an estranging sense of unbecoming that postcolonial homes incur, being enunciated as “differential sites of social formation” for the disruptive discourse of global precariousness. Reading Nayomi Munaweera’s fiction, I examine how home has emerged as a conspicuous motif in which identities intersect with a quest to unlearn the political geographies of belonging in South Asian Literature. In Island of A Thousand Mirrors (2012), home emerges a space in which exile and belonging overlap for individuals who negotiate their distorted histories and realities amidst a civil war in Sri Lanka. In the other novel, What Lies Between Us (2016), there is both resistance and virulent anger against the irreconcilable extremities of belonging concurrently to two homes/nations. Home emerges as an unhomely space, situated within the dilemma of becoming and unbecoming. Despite the idealized longing involved, conjuring the “archeologies of desire” accentuates an inescapable failure of reconciliation between an imagined belonging and the shifting paradigms of unsettled identities. Within these irate resistances of unbecoming selves in the literary space of South Asia, home is a precarious locus of discontent which reveals a systemic psychological lacuna in the critical sensibilities of postcolonial belonging.

The Politics of Code Switching and Code Mixing: A critical Study of Arundhati Roy’s Novel the Ministry of Utmost Happiness in the Postcolonial Discourse Perspective

This study is an attempt to investigate the code-switching and code mixing (CS and CM) strategies deployed by Arundhati Roy (Roy) in the novel, ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ (MOUH) in terms of the linguistic hybridity and cultural syncreticity as an vantage site to contest and mediate the presumptive purity, representation, authenticity and universality of the western discourses and its discursive norms. In addition, it explores how such linguistic and literary practices deconstruct and decolonize the binary opposition like “speech/writing” “self/Other”” “Presence/Absence’ in the postcolonial disruptive discourse perspective. The core aim of the study is also to investigate the authenticity of the CS and CM strategies employed by the postcolonial writers like Roy consciously or unconsciously to foreground the difference and ambivalence in their counter discourse perspective. The study has also a great significance in terms of the pedagogical, theoretical, and analytical perspective in the postcolonial settings of Anglophone south Asia, western Africa, West Indies as well as in the settler colonies. The research design focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the selected and identified texts specifically from the novel MOUH and generally from other postcolonial discourses in the context of the interpretative epistemology, deconstructivity and postcolonial discourse perspective. The study concludes that such textual practices of code mixing and code switching are also authentic and pragmatic; which simultaneously also reflect an alternative vantage site to address the metonymic gaps in terms of difference, identity, hybridity and representation of the ex-colonized and marginalized nations in the context of overwhelming globalization and neo-colonialism. The study also affirms and recommends that in this age of melting zones, widespread migration and globalization; linguistic variations and cultural diversities must be celebrated as a privileged site of difference and plurality. It also suggests that the creative English writers like Arundhati Roy and their narratives may be encouraged and disseminated in order to demystify the misrepresentation, misperception, misconception, and mistrust between the Anglo-American’s Discourse shaper and mover, and the peripheral counter discourses in terms of the mediation and constant engaging contest and conflict across the globe.

Champions of Equity: Fostering Civic Education to Challenge Silence, Racial Inequity, and Injustice

This article presents a study that explored how race and racism impact teaching and learning and how civic education can be employed to promote racial justice. We argue the need to examine educators’ perspectives on how increased awareness of existing inequities coupled with ongoing professional development can better equip them to understand their identity, engage in meaningful dialogue, and teach in culturally responsive ways. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of teaching implications related to self-assessment, disruptive discourse, and inclusive practices.

The Grotesque as an Instrument of Sociopolitical Critique in Rawi Hage’s Migrant Fiction

This essay considers the function of the grotesque mode in Rawi Hage’s novels Cockroach (2008) and Carnival (2012). The grotesque is an artistic form with which Hage draws attention to the predicament of the class of poor and disadvantaged new immigrants in contemporary Montreal. He thereby offers a recent immigrant’s unsettling, ex-centric perspective on the Canadian multicultural ideal that proclaims the acceptance of ethnic and racial difference.Formal aspects that generate a grotesque effect include the first-person narrator’s self-image, his disruptive discourse of resistance, his disorienting view of urban reality, and spatial metaphors in the context of the protagonist’s social alienation and marginalisation. Influential theories of the grotesque, introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser, help to describe recurrent shifts in the literary text from “the carnivalesque” to “the demonic grotesque”. In addition, Julia Kristeva’s related notions of “the abject” and “semiotic discourse” throw light on the sense of fear and repulsion felt towards the urban poor, and on the protagonist’s deliberate identification with vermin in the context of his discourse of resistance.Even though the underprivileged migrant is able to answer back, Hage’s novels are devoid of true regenerative and liberating power. As soon as the literary carnivalesque shifts towards the demonic grotesque, the narrative gives prominence to the migrant’s isolation and socio-economic outsider position. Nonetheless, the grotesque mode, being typically associated with flux and the rupturing of boundaries, does function as a powerful tool with which the author depicts the recent immigrant as an individual with an indomitable spirit.

High culture and popular culture in Far from the Madding Crowd

The fluctuation between highbrow and lowbrow literature seems to be at the heart of Thomas Hardy’s career as a novelist, torn between success and artistic uprightness as he was. The early Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) represents a case in point of such a dilemma. Indeed, the spread of serialised literature, mainly thanks to the advent of sensation fiction, enabled Hardy to “write a good story”, and sensational and melodramatic episodes in Far from the Madding Crowd show many similarities with other lowbrow novels of the time, full of unexpected twists. Even though the dominant genres of the pastoral and the tragic prevail in Far from the Madding Crowd, proving that Hardy initiated a transition with other more respectable genres, lower forms allowed him to convey a disruptive discourse within the book, and to create an original mix between high and popular forms which will later become one of his hallmarks.

Gendering confrontational rhetoric: discursive disorder in the British and Swedish parliaments

Parliaments are basically adversarial settings that instantiate the polarization of political power. In debating the pros and cons of available alternatives, parliamentarians are supposed to observe convention-based institutional norms and regulations. However, in critical moments these rules are strategically violated to achieve political goals. Gender-related asymmetries in parliamentary power balance tend to emerge in disorderly parliamentary behaviour and/or disruptive discourse practices. This article focuses on the way in which the rules, procedures and practices of parliamentary interaction are being transgressed in mixed-gender encounters. The results indicate that a range of five context-specific master suppression techniques1 are used by both female and male MPs to enact and reinforce their own power position and, at the same time, to challenge and undermine the opponent's authority and credibility. A micro-level analysis of gender-related disruptive discourse practices in the UK Parliament and the Swedish Riksdag shows how different parliaments, with different rhetorical styles and traditions, often exhibit different forms and manifestations of rule violation, on the one hand, and different reactions to disorderly discursive behaviour, on the other.

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Why Unlearning Matters in SMEs

Developing a better understanding of how small firms release redundant knowledge, beliefs and practices is becoming increasingly important in environments characterized by discontinuity. This explorative research focuses on unlearning as a means of accomplishing this task. The self-reinforcing and enduring nature of existing knowledge, practice and situated power is recognized. Unlearning requires a sustained disruptive discourse to challenge the embedded assumptions of the firm. A significant finding of the research is that this discourse is often beyond the capability of the firm itself. The intervention of external actors is therefore required to create the necessary reflective space and legitimacy to reframe knowledge and beliefs.

Detention, Displacement and Dissent in Recent Australian Life Writing

Narratives of persecution, imprisonment, displacement and exile have been a fundamental aspect of Australian literature: from the convict narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to writing by refugees and migrants to Australia following World War II, to the narratives of those displaced by more recent conflicts. This paper will focus on two texts published in Australia in the past few years which deal with experiences of persecution and displacement from Afghanistan. Mahboba's Promise (2005) and The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif (2008) are texts that have to some extent bypassed the quarantining that Gillian Whitlock has argued works to locate potentially disruptive discourse at a safe distance from mainstream consumption. The publications discussed here demonstrate that refugee narratives can negotiate their way into the public sphere and public consciousness. In this process, however, representations of dissent almost necessarily give way to conciliation and integration as former refugee subjects attempt to realign their lives in terms that will provide the best outcomes for themselves, their families and their communities.

Past Presentisms: Suffering Soldiers, Benjaminian Ruins, and the Discursive Foundations of Early U.S. Historical Novels

Letter investigates the impact of the present in early historical fictions and how that present is manifested in the elaborate allegorical structures of the first popular novels to emerge after the War of 1812. Specifically, the figure of the suffering Revolutionary soldier, central to both James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy and John Neal's Seventy-Six, serves as a contemporary allegorical expression of historical change, a figure best explained by Walter Benjamin's definition of the allegorical ruin. The suffering soldier complicates national origins and resists narrative closure. As a literary figuration, this soldier represents a disruptive discourse in the early nation, one that contradicts master narratives of progress and national destiny. Thus, the suffering soldier complicates criticisms of early popular novels by suggesting a highly complex cultural function for the genre. Presentism as an early national orientation suggests an alternative to historical progressivism and antiquarianism, both of which depend on linear approaches to the study of early U.S. culture and literary history. Cooper, when read alongside his contemporary Neal, reveals a deeply conflicted temporal sensibility, one as much concerned with past losses as it is hopeful of future gain. Historical allegories, because they articulate between past and present, offer an important discursive frame for studying the emerging significance of novels in early national culture.

Knowledge versus Status: Discursive Struggle in Women's <em>Batei Midrash</em>

Women's entrance into the traditionally male turf of Talmud study brings about new experiences and challenges. The encounter between traditional limud in institutions of Jewish study and the new female students is a novel situation. This unique setting gives rise to a struggle between a liberal yeshiva for discourse, revolving around the notion of women's integration into the traditional structures, and an innovative and a potentially disruptive discourse that emerges from the women's own experience—an experience-based discourse. This study examines the status of women in batei midrash in terms of their ability to express their needs and insights and to form women's frameworks to suit these needs.

Framing the margins: the social logic of postmodern culture

Phillip Brian Harper, Framing Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Black women had to deal with problems nineteenth century and earlier. These things had to be addressed by black people long time ago. Certain kinds of dissolution, loss of and need to reconstruct certain kinds of stability. Certain kinds of madness, deliberately going mad order, as one of characters says book, in order not to lose your mind. --Toni Morrison (qtd. Gilroy Small Acts 178). 1 In this review essay I want to suggest particular relationship between kinds of literature discussed organization and journal MELUS, and understood Jamesonian terms as particular cultural dominant into which I necessarily write, rather than as an ethics or an aesthetics which given writer may choose. The relationship is suggested by two books under review, Phillip Brian Harper's Framing Margins: On Social Logic of Postmodernism (1994), and Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), important recent works which attempt to bridge gap between and by arguing different ways that ethnicity and marginality studies must figure centrally all considerations of period terms like modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, these books demonstrate that what is presently defined as by certain well-known theorists was anticipated by peoples of African diaspora, among others, period generally referred to as modern. Being ahead of curve on this has, of course, not been necessarily to benefit of black people. In course of reviewing these books, I will find it useful to introduce separate argument: that, among theories of Fredric Jameson's Marxist account of term provides framework most consistent with claims Harper and Gilroy make for studies of ethnicity and marginality. This is because studies of ethnicity and other forms of marginality require an epistemological framework which can account for production of subjectivity on basis of what Satya Mohanty refers to as objective social location (54). One version of such framework is available through feminist epistemology, which itself has developed part through particular reading of Marxism.(1) I will suggest that while certain criticisms that have been made of Fredric Jameson's Marxist account of from ethnic studies point of view are accurate, nevertheless Jameson's work provides framework for most consistent with most complex of standpoint theories, lending Harper's and Gilroy's accounts greater coherence than is available through theories of of Jean-Francois Lyotard or his lineal descendants, which have tended to be preferred accounts of ethnic studies scholars.(2) 2 Harper begins his account of the social logic of postmodern culture by recounting well-known triad of positions on definition of postmodern through which most debates can be read: Habermas, Lyotard, Jameson. Between 1979 and 1984 each of these canonical theorists published work evaluating meaning and usefulness of term postmodernism from strikingly different positions, which can be described as against postmodernism, for postmodernism, and amid postmodernism, respectively. Habermas's main concern was never quite postmodernity, but rather modernity, which he sees as an uncompleted which should have led to the rational organization of everyday life (Harper 5). Through promotion of theory of rational communication, he wants to complete modernist project, and it is this light that he views as an essentially conservative project (Habermas 1314). Lyotard, contrast, is enthusiastic about which he imagines to be fulfillment of modernist avant garde--an ongoing disruptive discourse that prevents us from falling into a collective nostalgia for an unattainable unity (Harper 5). …

Validity, Reliability, and the Structure of Computerized Conversational Simulation

In one particular type of computerized language-learning simulation, the computer takes on the role of a participant in the target language conversation. This type of simulation has been called a computer-assisted language-learning conversational simulation (CALL CS). We argue that the validity of a CALL CS (from the language teacher's point of view) depends on its structure, whereas its reliability (necessary for the willing suspension of disbelief by the language learner) derives from an absence of highly disruptive discourse disjunctures, or communicative breakdowns, as defined by Winograd and Flores.