Dialogical Perspective Research Articles

Light In The Dark Azyumardi Azra's Cotribution In Framing Novelty of Nusantara Islam

Azyumardi Azra significantly contributed to re-framing the Indonesian situation during his lifetime as a scholar. This article works on the literature review of the works of Azra. It aims to perform an analytical article that helps people comprehend that social reality lives in certain identity politics. Azra proposed to look at reality from the "Optimistic Perspective” that has become a distinguished perspective in looking at the present situation of Indonesian Islam. Using the social framing theory by Erving Goffman, this article contributes to performing the social life from a new perspective. In the Catholic perspective of interreligious dialogue, the work of Azyumardi Azra is in line with the contemporary efforts of Pope Francis. As an institution, a religion derives into a certain situation that emerges the complexity of its adherents’ way of thinking, however, certain influential figures build new social frameworks that enable people to have a distinctive way from the directed situation.

Social media on the route to circular economy transition from a dialogic perspective: evidence from the agri-food industry

PurposeThis paper investigates circular economy communications and stakeholder dialogic engagement with circular economy posts published by European agri-food companies on Twitter from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the use of social media as a dialogic tool to activate circular economy engagement in order to involve all supply-chain actors on the route to a circular transition.Design/methodology/approachA coding framework based on the reclassification of the Glossary of Circular Economy, according to a 4-R paradigm (reduce, reuse, recycle and recover), was developed for the analysis. All tweets published by a sample of European agri-food companies, starting from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic until data extraction, were collected, purified and analysed.FindingsAgri-food companies showed a higher level of engagement through social media, even if mainly focused on “recycling” and “general circular economy” issues. In general, awareness among social network users of the need to be part of the circular economy transition emerged. Moreover, the highest percentage of posts published by the companies' Twitter accounts was informative rather than interactive. In addition, starting with the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the circular economy has arisen as a central topic of debate and a driver for the rethinking process of the agri-food business community.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge, this research represents the first study focused on circular economy engagement through social media from the company perspective in the agri-food industry.

In defence of loose ends: Psychotherapy process research in the real world

Understanding what transpires in therapeutic conversations is as complex as the humans who are engaged in them. Inspired by the natural sciences, mainstream research in psychotherapy has taken up a positivist epistemology and strives for quantification and verification to produce evidence of the effectiveness of an approach. This paper explores an alternative foundation for therapeutic practices which has implications for how we do research. First, we present some ideas from process philosophy and dialogical perspectives.. In particular we return to the ideas of Henri Bergson who understood change as consisting of interpenetrated continuous and shifting states. In a next step we briefly look into how such ideas have influenced what is referred to as dialogical practices. Such dialogical practices operate through facilitating polyphonic, diverse perspectives that may mediate change in and through an intersubjective process of becoming. Based on this we take another step and make some suggestions for how we may develop research that enables ways of exploring therapeutic conversations as a multi-voiced, interactional and unfinalized process. We offer by way of example a method by which we attempt to integrate a linguistic theory (Systemic functional linguistics) with the dialogical framework and the ideas of Bergson. This paper considers how process philosophy may offer an alternative to the seeking of certainty that occurs in both psychotherapy research and practice, and ideas for making space for the ‘loose ends’ of the inconsistent and the unknown.

Interventionist research in management accounting: promoting engagement through face-to-face dialogues

PurposeThis paper explores face-to-face dialogues between practitioners and interventionist researchers in the management accounting (MA) field during real-time interactions for the development of accounting devices. It aims to shed light on whether and how these dialogues can affect the construction of meanings around the devices, thereby influencing the course of interventionist research (IVR) projects.Design/methodology/approachThis study presents a reflective analysis (both in itinere and ex-post) of an IVR project conducted by one of the authors within a healthcare organisation. It draws on a dialogical perspective to delve into the conversations between the author and the organisation's chief executive officer (CEO) during one-to-one meetings for developing a new strategic dashboard.FindingsThe findings show that a lack of alignment between the images invoked by verbal forms and the device representations can hinder accounting IVR projects. Obstacles can be overcome when the researcher, by acting upon verbal forms and device representations that mutually reinforce each other, shapes the practitioner's expectations creating shared meanings around the device. This occurs during face-to-face interactions in which the researcher recognises the trialogue with the practitioner and the device, thereby affecting the practitioner's mode of engagement.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to improving the understanding of how researchers can affect practitioners' conceptualisation of accounting devices through the real-time experience of face-to-face dialogues. In doing so, it sheds light on the potential for IVR in MA to embrace a dialogical perspective. The paper also contributes more broadly to studies on the relationship between verbal and written accounting forms.

Divinas tetas: Doing Theology from Mutilated Bodies

The article is an exercise in constructing theology from a Latin American perspective in dialogue with queer studies and theologies. The starting point is the tragic death of Lorena Muniz, a transwoman, in the process of getting breast implants making evident aspects of gender oppression, cis-sexist aesthetic pressure, and state neglect of health care specific to the trans population as denounced by ANTRA (National Association of Travestis and Transexuals). From this context, the article discusses a hermeneutics of mutilation in relation to Latin America and to the experience of trans people and introduces countersexuality (Preciado) as a way to resist the mutilations of cis-heteropatriarchy. With those tools in hand, the last part of the article realizes an exercise of theological and religious imagination engaging with the song Vaca profana (Caetano Veloso/Gal Costa) as a possible way of reconciling the reality of Lorena Muniz’ death with the hope for a different future through the symbolism of the divinas tetas [divine tits].

CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL DARASHIKOH

The article encompasses the fictional endeavours of Qazi Abdul Sattar, a renowned writer of Urdu literature. He came across four fabulous historical novels besides several beautiful figments of fiction. His novels Dara Shikoh, Ghalib, Khalid Bin Waleed and Salahuddin Ayyubi, are his masterpieces of Historical Urdu fiction. In this article, an attempt is made to analyze and critically examine the art of characterization in his novel Dara Shikoh.
 In this critical examination, characters will be examined in the context of history, psychology, religion, art and culture, and dialogical perspective. Moreover, his characters contemporary age historical nature, readers standing about the character and the way certain characters are deliberately given more importance and a few ones are put under the carpet, are pertinent to be examined carefully in order to know their true nature. In analyzing historical characters, it is also a matter of great interest to know the very history of that character, its semi-historical nature and the self-creation of the charter by the author. It has also been tried to analyze characters explicitly and implicitly keeping in mind their psychological tilts and bends and characters’ active participation and contemporary inclinations and demands. All such aspects unveil the character’s true picture and it becomes crystal clear to objectively know the inner self of characters.

The Second Person in Dialogue

I first present a conception of the relata involved in the dialogic relation. I and thou are persons endowed with a first-person perspective and concepts through which they can represent themselves as distinct of anyone or anything else. Then I briefly discuss the epistemology and metaphysics of persons as agents. I adopt a realist view against any epistemological projects denying (or feigning to deny) the existence of the second person. Then I expose the complementary view of the secondperson perspective, which close the gap between the first- and third-person perspectives. I expose some historical milestones recognizing the importance of the second-person perspective in dialogue. After an examination of the conditions for the use of mental terms, I propose an analysis of dialogue in sequences of illocutionary acts, stressing the importance of perlocutionary plans. Any dialogue worthy of the name involves mutual understanding. In my reconstruction, I use distinctions proposed by Burge, Dummett and Austin. There are degrees of understanding in dialogue. In the highest degree, we have a real “meeting of minds.” Finally, a genuine dialogue is different from a fictional dialogue. I also suggest, taking side with Descartes, that the interaction man-machine cannot be classified as genuine dialogue.

The academic discourse of English teachers from a dialogic perspective

RESUMO O objetivo deste artigo é discutir a constituição do discurso acadêmico do professor de inglês sobre experiências exitosas no ensino da língua. Para isso, filio-me à Linguística Aplicada e adoto a perspectiva dialógica da linguagem para explorar 12 resumos de comunicações publicados no caderno de resumos do III Seminário Internacional da Associação Brasileira de Professores de Língua Inglesa na Rede Federal de Ensino Básico, Técnico e Tecnológico (ABRALITEC) em 2020. Os resumos são tomados como enunciados imbuídos do discurso oficial sobre o ensino de inglês no Brasil e do discurso teórico mobilizado para a realização da investigação no campo da atividade científica. A análise dialógica do corpus elucidou que o discurso acadêmico do professor de inglês se bivocaliza com o discurso teórico por meio da nomenclatura de conceitos e da citação a autores para fundamentar teorias pedagógica, metodológica e de linguagem, ao passo que se bivocaliza com o discurso oficial por meio da inserção de léxico específico ou da menção à política de educação linguística para complementá-la ou transgredi-la.

Music, language, and aesthetic education: a study from a dialogical perspective

Resumo O objetivo deste ensaio é explorar relações entre música, linguagem e formação estética, ampliando possibilidades metodológicas para a educação musical na contemporaneidade. Apresenta reflexões que viabilizam a elaboração de um aporte teórico-prático a partir de fundamentos filosóficos para a música como linguagem, os quais possibilitam sustentar a natureza e o valor da educação musical como formação estética na educação básica. Para estabelecer os diálogos a que se propõe, o trabalho se sustenta nas concepções teóricas de Bakhtin e o Círculo, grupo de intelectuais russos cuja obra e pensamento possuem hoje um vasto espiral de potencialidades para a pesquisa em ciências humanas. O ensaio apresenta possibilidades para a educação musical a partir das experiências musicais dos estudantes.

Contribuições de uma ação avaliativa para o movimento em rede da feira de matemática: a case study1

ABSTRACT At Mathematic Fair (FMat), the work evaluation in its formative character aims to provide an overview of what was developed by the authors to contribute with relevant aspects to be revisited and provide, when it is appropriate, continuity and better results of the studies. However, there are studies which indicate that such a purpose occurs only occasionally. In view of this, from a qualitative and interpretative perspective, we propose to analyze the Networked Movement of Mathematic Fair (MRFMat) contributions to an evaluative action based on a dialogic perspective. The investigation involved the development of this evaluative action in two different regional editions of Santa Catarina de FMat held in 2019. The data for analysis were produced through interviews with three exhibitors of two exhibited works in the referred regionals fairs and who participated in the action. The analytical process indicates this evaluative action, when performed in a dialogic and formative perspective, contributes: (i) to the expositor person regarding to formation and attitudes, concepts, and emotions development; (ii) for the work exposed in terms of scientific quality and continuity perspectives; (iii) to the dynamics of the evaluation process regarding to the evaluator person. We concluded that the action corroborates the qualitative assessment claims supported by the Movement, constituting a potential dialogic assessment for FMat.

Philosophical meaning of the concept of loneliness

This article is a comprehensive study of the philosophical significance of the concept of loneliness in a modern context. The author analyzes both classical and modern philosophical theories of loneliness, exploring the views of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre. The focus is on how these philosophers interpreted loneliness and its significance for human existence. In the methodological part of the article, the author approaches the study of loneliness using an interdisciplinary approach, including the analysis of philosophical texts, sociological and anthropological studies, as well as phenomenological and cross-cultural analysis. Qualitative research methods are used, including interviews and surveys to study personal experiences of loneliness and cross-cultural comparison to identify universal and culturally specific aspects of the phenomenon of loneliness. This allows a deeper understanding of loneliness as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that affects various aspects of human life. The article also includes an analysis of the impact of social changes caused by globalization and digitalization on the experience of loneliness. The author conducts a phenomenological analysis, exploring personal experiences of loneliness through interviews and surveys, and cross-cultural analysis to identify universal and culturally specific aspects of loneliness. Based on the data obtained, the author offers a number of practical recommendations for educational, social and political institutions aimed at integrating the philosophical understanding of loneliness into public discussions and politics. This study provides a new perspective on loneliness, expanding traditional psychological and sociological approaches and offering new perspectives for philosophical analysis and public dialogue.

Technology import modes, environmental regulation types and total factor energy efficiency

ABSTRACT This paper examines the mediating roles of different modes of technology import on the relationship between environmental regulations (ERs) and total factor energy efficiency (TFEE) by using the data of 30 provinces of China from 2008 to 2019. Based on the Porter hypothesis, this work reveals that different modes of technology import can be driven by different environmental regulation types, including command-control environmental regulation (CCER) and market-incentive environmental regulation (MIER), which have different impacts on TFEE. By distinguishing technology imports into the purchases of foreign technology (POFT) and the imitations of foreign technology (IOFT), the results show that CCER and MIER induce corporate executives to focus on POFT, resulting in sluggishness in self-innovation and accordingly undermining TFEE. The MIER shifts corporate executives’ attention on IOFT, inspiring them to focus on re-innovation, and is beneficial for improving TFEE. Additionally, this research finds that technology absorption capacity (TAC) can blunt the negative relationship between POFT and TFEE, as well as strengthen IOFT’s positive effect on TFEE. This research unearths the roles of different technology import modes and environmental regulation modes on TFEE. It also uncovers the role of TAC as a moderator for improving TFEE within the context of technology import. It offers a new dialogue perspective about the effects of environmental regulation types on green development, and contributes to the porter hypothesis literature by incorporating the missing technology import factors into the theory, and also provides managerial and policy implications.

Cовременные теории секуляризации и перспективы светско-религиозного диалога

Introduction. The article examines the current philosophical debates about the relationship between secular and religious worldviews. The article outlines recent forms of postsecularization as the continued existence of religious communities in a continually secularizing environment, identifying its main dimensions: the deinstitutionalization of the religious lifestyle, the individualization of faith, and the development of new social forms in the religious field. Theoretical analysis. The central premise of the study is that existing approaches are not only controversial, but have their limitations to describing perspectives of secular-religious dialogue in a constructive way. On the basis of the discursive approach rational-discursive and relativistic-conventional strategies of secular-religious dialogue are identified and discussed. In this context, J. Habermas suggests that religion and secular worldviews have to learn from each other, and religion has to be “translated” into the rational language of secular culture, neutralizing its most dangerous components. At the same time, J. Milbank finds the essentialization of secular reason problematic. In conclusion, perspectives of secular-religious dialogue in the context of Russian culture are discussed. The essence of this model consists in the search for a compromise between the extremes of dogmatic faith and secular reason.

Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th–18th Centuries , by Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (Eds.)

Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th–18th Centuries , by Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (Eds.)

Participatory Communication of Industrial Workers in Supporting Intako Msme Branding

The purpose of this study was to determine the participatory communication of industrial craftsmen in supporting the branding of Intako SMEs in Sidoarjo. Collecting data using interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis was carried out by analysis according to Miles and Huberman which consisted of data reduction, data presentation and verification withdrawal. The results showed that in supporting the branding of Intako bags and suitcases, the Sidoarjo district industry and trade office supported the Small and Medium SME Industry, namely by providing training to craftsmen, these trainings included increasing skills that were more directed at their human resources, where craftsmen or entrepreneurs to improve their skills. Furthermore, the forms of participatory communication of industrial craftsmen in supporting the branding of Intako bags and suitcases are in the form of heteroglossia, dialogic, polyphony, and carnival. Heteroglossia communication is characterized by a lack of capital to buy raw materials, capital is the most important factor in the running of an MSME in which capital is used as the development of a business. Then from a dialogical perspective it emerged when group members attended training meetings and workshops. The participation of polyphony also emerged, namely when the training and workshop expressed ideas or opinions openly. And lastly, in terms of participatory communication, the carnival SME group of bag and suitcase craftsmen Intako also appeared at a promotional event held by the Industry and Trade Office of Sidoarjo Regency.

The Mutual Fusion of Nature and Grace: Book Review of An Ethical Study of St.Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas' religious ethics is one of the important topics in the study of medieval philosophy, but at present, there is still a lack of relevant research monographs in the Chinese academic community. The publication of Professor Wang Tao's An Ethical Study of St.Thomas Aquinas has filled in the research in this field to some extent. The book discusses the connection and integration of natural nature and transcendental grace, the axial spirit of Aquinas' religious ethics, and conducts a comprehensive and in-depth study of Aquinas' religious ethics in the perspective of multi-disciplinary dialogue. It also pays attention to theory and practice. This book not only helps us to further understand the panorama of Aquinas' religious ethics, but also helps us to understand its cross era, cross culture, cross discipline practical significance and contemporary value.

Mathematics education and the living world: A dialogic response to a global crisis

Life on Planet Earth is changing in response to the actions of humans to a degree that can be considered a crisis. Mathematics educators have not yet responded adequately to the challenges of this crisis. We propose a relational, dialogic perspective on mathematics education through which mathematics educators can understand and enact their responsibilities. A dialogical stance leads to an ethics calling on our answerability and responsibility in relation to the living world. We use this perspective to reflect on previous research in mathematics education that seeks to respond to environmental issues. We look back to consider work that has addressed the relationship of mathematics and of mathematics education to the living world and draw out links to a dialogical stance. We conclude with questions for research and practice for mathematics education to respond to the ecological crisis.

Open dialogue trainees' perspectives on learning processes and psychotherapeutic practice: A prospective focus group study.

Open Dialogue is a collaborative approach to mental health care emphasizing integrated services and a dialogical psychotherapy approach. Open Dialogue training programs eschew traditional didactic teaching of technical therapeutic skills in favor of more experiential learning processes. It is unclear how these training programs affect trainees and shape their perspectives on Open Dialogue. Our aim was to follow up a group of Australian Open Dialogue trainees and explore their perspectives on learning processes and psychotherapeutic practice. We utilized a prospective focus group design with data from audio-recorded focus groups convened before (n=2) and after (n=3) participants completing an advanced Open Dialogue training program. Data were subjected to reflective thematic analysis. We identified the theme "Extending possibilities by holding ideas lightly," which represented a universal principle that participants applied to multiple aspects of their practice, for example, favoring multiple perspectives and approaches to therapy, including those other than Open Dialogue. This theme had two sub-themes: (1) "Allowing intimacy by being aware of personal biographies" and (2) "Learning by joining others," which reflected an increased willingness by participants to reflect on and share their inner experiences and an emphasis on joint experiential exercises in the training program. "Extending possibilities by holding ideas lightly" facilitated a means of incorporating a dialogical perspective into existing practices thus avoiding the potential barriers to a wholesale implementation of Open Dialogue. Findings indicated that the participants were not learning how to practice a therapeutic technique or propositional knowledge, but were socialized into a dialogical way of being.

Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts: introducing mobile and dialogic perspectives on language

This paper constitutes an introduction to our special issue on Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts: Towards mobile and dialogic perspectives on language puts the spotlight on the hegemonies and marginalizations of mainstream academic productions and the circulations of concepts in the contemporary fields that are labelled Multilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, etc. Transcending the demarcations that have emerged in the Language Sciences broadly conceptualized across time, it particularly attempts to illuminate, through different scholars’ engagements, the circulations of concepts inside and across academic circles located in various places on the planet, identified as central or marginal places of production of academic norms, including what is understood as global epistemic circuits. The editors present reflections from their own positionalities and recent trajectories as illustrative points of departure.

Importance of antimicrobial stewardship in solid organ transplant recipients: An ESCMID perspective.

In the last decades, solid organ transplantation (SOT) has emerged as an important method in the management of chronic kidney, liver, heart, and lung failure. Antimicrobial use has led to a significant reduction of morbidity and mortality due to infectious complications among patients with SOT; however, it can lead to adverse events and drive the development of antimicrobial resistance; thus, antimicrobial stewardship is of extreme importance. Even though there are ongoing efforts of transplant societies to implement principles of antimicrobial stewardship in everyday practice in SOT, there is still a lack of guidelines in this patient population. The aim of this study was to review the status of antimicrobial stewardship in patients with SOT, highlight its importance from the perspective of an ongoing vivid dialogue among ESCMID experts in the field of antimicrobial stewardship, and depict opportunities for future study in the field. Antimicrobial stewardship programs are important in order to allow appropriate initiation and termination of antimicrobials in SOT recipients, and also aid in the most appropriate dosing and choosing of the route of administration of antimicrobials. Application of already known antimicrobial stewardship principles and application of currently used biomarkers and newly developed molecular rapid diagnostic testing tools can aid to the rationalization of antimicrobial prescribing and to a more targeted treatment of infections. Finally, physicians caring for SOT recipients should be actively involved in antimicrobial stewardship in order to assure optimization of antimicrobial prescribing and become familiar with the principles of antimicrobial stewardship.