Space For Dialogue Research Articles

Museum and tourism activities in spreading the Nanai traditional beliefs

In the Khabarovsk Region (Russia), museums and tourist activities are supposed to safeguard traditions in favour of Nanai and other Indigenous communities. However, paradoxically, the employees of museums and travel agencies diverge from the local Nanai communities both in their business interests and in their interpretation of the nature of the traditions preserved. Without worrying about introducing some bold creative innovations and overcoming the boundaries of traditions and ethnicity, they actually strive to “safeguard the Nanai traditions” not for the Nanai and without the Nanai.However, the new format of museum and tourist activities, which involves the use of participatory methods, has recently begun to form a new innovative reality that could probably suit both opposing sides. Previously, most of the Nanai population were prejudiced against museums and tourism and wary of the risks associated with storing and publicly showing some traditional praxis and objects (especially sacred ones). Currently, however, museums and touristic organisations have started to support innovative ways of continuation of Nanai spiritual practices, bringing them, on the one hand, beyond the ethnic borders and turning museums and tourist sites into places of worship whatever their ethnicity. On the other hand, these institutions contributed to the revival of Nanai spirituality within Nanai communities, giving them a new shape in the communicative space of intercultural dialogue constituted by museums.

ЭКСПРЕССИВНЫЙ РЕСУРС МЕЖДОМЕТИЙ В ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОМ ТЕКСТЕ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ КИНОПОВЕСТИ В. М. ШУКШИНА «КАЛИНА КРАСНАЯ»)

The article analyzes the features of the functioning of interjections in the literary text as expressivizers of the reported, establishes the functional and communicative characteristics of interjections in the semantic space of the text dialogue, specifies the parameters of the reinforcement of the interjections of the represented individual reactions of the characters. It is proved that interjections in the communicative space of a literary text acquire the properties of significant speech signs manifesting the speech characteristics of characters in the modus-evaluative sphere of text dialogue. The functional and communicative-pragmatic properties of interjections as representatives of a character’s personal opinion and means of conveying this opinion to the addressee in a text dialogue are investigated.

АПОФАТИКА РУССКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ: ТРАДИЦИИ СКОМОРОШЕСТВА В СТИХОТВОРЕНИИ С.А. ЕСЕНИНА «Я ОБМАНЫВАТЬ СЕБЯ НЕ СТАНУ…»

The object of the article is the tradition of buffoonery in Russian culture. The subject of the research is the ambivalent image of dusk, the phenomenon of twilight in Russian poetry, which is associated with inverted reality, the antithetic world. The material for this article is represented by the creative heritage of S.A. Yesenin who is rightfully considered to be one of the best folklore poets of the early 20th century. The cultural-philosophical analysis is centred on a poem from the cycle “Moskva Kabatskaya” [Moscow of Taverns], namely “I will not deceive myself...”. This poem is internally structured according to the principle of interaction between two types of reality in art – the phenomenal and the noumenal, the rational and the spontaneous. Much attention is paid to the problem of transformation of the buffoonery tradition in the poet’s works, the latter being associated with the image of murky heart, nocturnal light denoting the inverted reality, the ritual chaos. The paper explores the phenomena of gloom, of vespertinal and unfading light which are linked with the antithetic world, i.e. with inverted reality and the thanatological text of culture. The research methodology involves the holistic ontological-hermeneutic analysis of S.A. Yesenin’s poetic texts. The research results may be of interest for philologists tending to include literature in the space of a great dialogue of cultures and may also be used in courses on cultural studies and Russian philosophy.

Geography and environment: A time of change

Geography and environment: A time of change

PROPOSIÇÃO DE MODELO HOSPITALAR PARA ENVOLVIMENTO DO PACIENTE NO AUTOCUIDADO

ABSTRACT Objective: To propose a model for patient involvement in self-care in the hospital environment from the perspective of patients and professionals. Method: A qualitative study based on Convergent Care Research. Eight interviews were conducted with older adult patients and with nine professionals who provided care to participating patients in a clinical-surgical hospitalization unit from November 2021 to May 2022. Data analysis followed the apprehension, synthesis, theorization and transfer steps. Results: Three categories emerged which anchored the development of the hospital model for patient involvement in self-care: Communication: the fundamental element for patient involvement; Partnership between patient and multidisciplinary team: the path to patient involvement; and Organizational aspects for patient involvement in their care: the perspective of the multidisciplinary team. The study provided a space for dialogue with the multidisciplinary team to incorporate the model into the care process. Conclusion: The model contemplates clear and effective communication influenced by intrinsic patient issues and the health education process, supported by organizational aspects inherent to the hospital service.

Public participation and popular health education: potential spaces for dialogue in the form of a collective ombudsman

Este trabalho relata a experiência de um projeto de pesquisa e extensão no âmbito da participação social e da educação popular em saúde, realizado na comunidade de Roda de Fogo, Recife, PE, entre 2019 e 2021. Tem como objetivo descrever como se deu essa experiência, apontar seus resultados e identificar suas potencialidades e desafios. Para a sistematização dos dados, utilizamos gravações, cadernos de campo e atas de reunião do projeto. Ao revisitar todo o material, foi possível ratificar o importante trabalho realizado pela ouvidoria coletiva no âmbito da formação dos estudantes, da participação dos moradores e da interlocução com diversos setores da máquina pública, que, juntos, visaram uma maior compreensão dos inúmeros desafios enfrentados pelos territórios mais empobrecidos. Entretanto, verificamos que as discussões no âmbito do projeto tenderam a se encaminhar para necessidades imediatas, o que comprometeu o sentido político da participação social.

Mental Spaces of Science Diplomacy

The article addresses the concept of science diplomacy within the framework of cognitive paradigm of knowledge. We analyze the mental spaces of science diplomacy, specifically in the process of intercognitive, intercultural communication. Science diplomacy is considered as a tool for building a multidimensional space of dialogue between different poles and civilizations in the context of the emergence of a new multipolar world. We argue that science diplomacy is an integrated concept based on the multi-level conceptual mappings between various mental spaces of science and diplomacy. We prove that mental spaces of science diplomacy are structured by the frames of “trust”, “balance”, and “control”.

Lingvisticheskaya antropologiya v russkom perevode (posleslovie k diskussii)

The article presents the results of the Forum “Linguistic Anthropology”, dedicated to the current state of language and culture studies in Russia. It is obvious that the transfer of an interdisciplinary field called “Linguistic Anthropology” to Russian science and education is already underway. At the same time, as the discussion shows, a Russian version of this area is organized around several points of attraction: Western literature on language and culture and language and politics, the theory and methods of linguistics, sociolinguistics, conversational analysis and discourse analysis, and the Russian school of еthnolinguistics. An intriguing methodological problem at the intersection of anthropology and linguistics is dealing with the unspoken, the ambiguous and the ironic. The participants in the discussion ask critical questions both of the grounds on which the researcher recognizes gaps and ambiguities, and of the goals of her interlocutors when they indicate that certain meanings cannot be expressed. Reflecting on the analytical potential of the metaphor of translation (another point where language and culture meet), the Forum participants talk about its political underpinnings: translation can both establish hierarchical relationships and create a space for cooperation. The discussion showed that the translation of American linguistic anthropology into Russian academic reality can create a space for dialogue both between disciplines and between researchers from different countries. The union of anthropology and linguistics offers relevant tools that are in demand not only among anthropologists and ethnographers, but also among historians, sociologists and other researchers who seek to understand social reality.

Conduta suicida em adolescentes e violências intrafamiliares e de gênero: revisão narrativa

Abstract Objective This study is a narrative review to consider how intrafamilial and gender violence can engender psychological suffering and suicidal behavior in adolescents. Method The Portal de Periódicos Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, and Scientific Electronic Library Online databases were searched for publications about risk factors for suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in adolescents, between 2010 and 2020. Results Intrafamilial violence was found to be a risk factor. Most suicide attempts occur between 15 and 19 years and are mainly due to drug intake. Gender violence, especially homophobia, is a risk factor for ideation and suicide attempts among adolescents, especially bisexual adolescents. Conclusion Interventions concerning sexual education in schools, promotion of spaces for dialogues about suicide, and modification of the binary bias in studies about adolescent sexualities are necessary.

Bride price and gender role in rural China

Based on a qualitative analysis conducted in four provinces of rural China, this article sheds light into the adverse effects of bride price practice on women. Research has shown that the negative effect of the bride price practice on women is produced continuously rather than in a single step. The practice of bride price is a dynamic process, which involves the formation of three practical spaces, namely the physical space for negotiation, the public space for discussion, and the family space for allocation and use of bride price. In these three spaces, the interactive content of actions and language surrounding the bride price constructs women as an insider and an outsider; the approver and the performer; and family caregivers. This process continually awakens women's self-awareness but not beyond the scope of bride price, leading to their limited growth. This article examines how the increasing bride price in rural China influences women in the flow process, thus verifying whether high bride price can improve women’s status.

INICIAÇÃO SEXUAL PRECOCE DE ADOLESCENTES MASCULINOS EM CONTEXTO DE DIVERSIDADE DE GÊNERO

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the early sexual initiation process among male adolescents attending school in the context of gender diversity, in the light of Madeleine Leininger's Theory. Method: a descriptive and exploratory research study with a qualitative approach, conducted with 18 adolescents attending school in the city of Recife-Pernambuco, Brazil. The individual interviews were conducted from June to December 2018 and a semi-structured interview script was used to produce the empirical material. As analytical resource, the IRAMuTeQ® software was resorted to in order to categorize the data in the thematic modality. Results: four thematic axes emerged from the interviews, namely: Influencing factors in early sexual initiation; Experience in early sexual initiation; Gender identity in the context of multiple masculinities; and Cultural aspects related to early sexual initiation. Sexual initiation emerges as a requirement for male adolescents to be respected and accepted in a group. It is understood that early sexual initiation is mainly characterized by emotional immaturity and by lack of knowledge, exposing adolescents to situations of vulnerabilities. Conclusion: taboos inhibit the establishment of dialogical relations in the family context and in the school setting, configuring situations of vulnerability for early sexual initiation, given the findings of sexuality in the context of gender diversity. Interdisciplinary and intersectoral actions, with emphasis on nurses' articulating role, become essential to foster dialogical spaces of congruent care for adolescents aiming at constructing knowledge about gender diversity and safe sexual initiation.

PARTISIPASI ELEMEN MASYARAKAT FILM TERHADAP PERSOALAN LINGKUNGAN HIDUP

Environmental issues are very complex things that require the participation of various elements of society. The film community is one element of society that is expected to contribute to participation in environmental management. The film produced by the community is one of the cultural artifacts, environmental communication is also inseparable from culture as its context. Film is also a participatory media that is used for the important role of community participation in creating special appropriate media content. With a qualitative descriptive method, this study aims to determine the strategy of the film community in conveying environmental messages. The results showed that the two selected communities had an equally important concern for environmental sustainability. Both use social media for communication coverage through films by choosing advocating narratives to provide a space for dialogue between the general public and interested parties, in this case the government and contributors to environmental problems.

Countering Social Stigma as the Basis of Interfaith Movement: A Case Study of Cadar Garis Lucu

One of the weaknesses of interfaith dialogue in Indonesia is the lack of participation and space for women’s voices. Almost all spaces for interfaith dialogue are dominated by men, even though women have an important role in interfaith dialogue. Therefore, we should involve more women than men, not only because women are the most affected when religious conflicts occur but previous studies have also shown that women are most effective in peacebuilding negotiation based on non-violent strategies. This study investigates an interfaith movement, Cadar Garis Lucu, which veiled/niqab women initiated to counter the stigma that veiled/niqab women are radical-extremist and anti-other religions. Besides being active in promoting peace and interfaith dialogue, Cadar Garis Lucu also promotes the discourse of gender equality. By employing qualitative research and in-depth interview method as the primary data collection technique, this study found that Cadar Garis Lucu is an interfaith movement that aims to counter society’s negative stigma towards women – both veiled/niqab women and women in general – and seeks to bring women to participate in interfaith dialogue. Furthermore, this study argues that there is no better way to peacebuilding than to give space for women in interfaith dialogue.

Academic freedom and Netflix’s ‘The Chair’: Implications for staff-student dialogue

Academic freedom is seriously under threat. Here I will consider how the marketisation of Higher Education has exacerbated the decline of ‘academic freedom’. While the effects of a ‘cancel culture’ on university provision are difficult to ignore, threats to academic freedom raise a number of questions, such as: ‘who is allowed to speak on campus?’, ‘to whom?’, and ‘about what?’. These questions are fundamental to the academic profession, and therefore have clear implications for teaching and learning in Higher Education. Through an analysis of Netflix’s The Chair (2021), and drawing on the works of Martin Buber, I argue that academics’ freedom to teach is implicitly constrained by student-consumer desires, and in turn this reduces the space for genuine dialogue on university campuses. Rather than closing down debate and the discussion of ‘controversial’ topics, universities instead need to cultivate a climate of trust, openness, and reciprocity on campuses, such that genuine staff-student dialogue can flourish. University campuses are precisely the places where academics should be able to engage in scholarly debate on matters of importance – where students may be exposed to radically different viewpoints and perspectives – and film and TV series can be used to initiate such conversations.

Social Media Labs in the Social Education Degree: Exploring Digital Competences of University Students

Social media labs, as spaces for experimentation, have recently become one of the main mechanisms for innovation. The role of universities, with degrees focused on subjects linked to social innovation, can be a fundamental factor in social development. It is essential to transform traditional centres into spaces for dialogue, into creative ecosystems, simultaneously dedicated to reflection and debate, research and production, training, and socialisation. Within this framework, we carried out ethnographic research on the implementation of a social media laboratory developed with social education students during the last two academic years at the faculty of education in Palencia. The results provide evidence of the development by university students in some skills related to creativity, reflection, and debate, as well as various digital skills. In line with the existing literature, we show how the social media laboratory enables the acquisition of knowledge situated in the social reality of the environment that is of great use to future social educators, as well as some of its limitations in these processes of experimentation and social innovation.

Revitalisasi Voice sebagai Hak Politik Warga Kota di Indonesia: Suatu Kajian Konseptual

The idea of voice has been long existing within society. When it comes to current urban environment, it seems that voice has been declining due to firm influence of individualism. This makes the inclusive dialogue space between inter citizens group & government and society relationship faded away. Concerning on this issue, this paper would like to highlight the possibility of voice to be main drive to rebuild political rights for citizens. By using a mixed method that consists of in-depth interviews and critical literature review, this paper shows that voice recently has been institutionalised into two ways: formal through e-government and informal through community radio broadcasting. Both ways are able to deliver grass root aspiration to be policymaking issues. These finding of this research suggests the need of active citizen participation to voice their aspiration through different platforms rather than formal ways.

Black women’s geographies of resistance and the Afro-Ecuadorian Ancestral Territory of Imbabura and Carchi

ABSTRACT This article explores the political project of the Afro-Ecuadorian Ancestral Territory of Imbabura and Carchi, advanced by the members of the Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Negras del Ecuador (CONAMUNE; National Coordination of Black Women of Ecuador) in the northern Ecuadorian highlands. I show how Black women resignify their past and assert their sense of place in an Andean region widely considered Indigenous. That region is marked by racial exploitation and land dispossession, and the political project of nation-building based on the ideology of mestizaje. Black women of CONAMUNE create a space for dialogue between Afrodescendant social organizations and the state, while engaging with Indigenous territorial projects. These Black women strengthen and mobilize diasporic identities by emphasizing the African blood spilled on the soil by their ancestors and the participation of Black enslaved women in the struggle for freedom. I argue that the Ancestral Territory project entails an ongoing geographic struggle in which Afrodescendant women create a particular sense of place as they live and imagine a geography of resistance.

Branded activism: Navigating the tension between culture and market in social media

How are brands navigating the tension of being cultural and market players in woke times? What are the futures of brand activism and how can brands and social media contribute to create conversational spaces for dialogue and social change? Brand activism resonates of the struggle that brands undertake to be perceived by consumers as committed cultural authority. This led several brands to fall into woke washing allegations and contestations in social media. Our study dives deep into a successful but highly contested Italian media brand that was launched as a cultural resource for the feminist cause but suffered from strong consumers' critique. Findings reveal how emerging contestation and polarization generated by brand activism in social media are the result of the unresolved tension of the brand being a cultural and a market player. This tension produces a spiral of mismatches between brand conduct and consumer perceptions when the commercial goals of the brand as market player prevail over the cultural value of material and immaterial resources provided by the brand as cultural player. Our study discusses how brands can navigate this tension and leverage on social media to realize wiser digital techno-futures in postnormal times.

Ecclesiological Themes in the Pontificate of Pope Francis

The article analyzes the emerging ecclesiology of Pope Francis that revives the teaching of the Vatican Council II and opens a new phase in the reception of Vatican II’s vision of the Church. The introductory part briefly outlines the kerygmatic feature of Pope Francis’s theology, which is in the background of his speech about the Church. The starting point of the second and central part of the article is the phrase “the Church that goes forth”, which represents the hermeneutic key of the Pope’s understanding of the Church. We highlight his reflections about the essence and mission of the Church, such as the missionary transformation of the Church, synodality and polycentric understanding of the Church, Church as a mother and healer, Church and the world. Finally, in the spirit of the Church that goes forth, we elaborate on a ‘Samaritan Church’, a Church as a ‘filed hospital’, characterized by charity, a commitment to the poor, a sense for the periphery and human brotherhood, promoting a culture of encounter and dialogue. The third part of the article focuses on the Pope’s call to holiness and to the realization of Christian spirituality, which internally revives and encourages the missionary transformation of the Church.Research has shown that Pope Francis aims to restore today’s Church in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. The doctrinal part of his teaching about the Church comes to life in pastoral practice. Pope Francis advocates the Church as a strong moral authority in society and the world. It is a parricidal Church that decisively bears witness, speaks freely and boldly, opens spaces for encounter and authentic dialogue, and knows how to listen and accept criticism.

National Theatre in My Kitchen: Access to Culture for Blind People in Poland During Covid-19

This article reflects on the phenomenon of the virtualization of culture and its significance in providing accessibility to people with visual impairment. From this point of view, virtual culture becomes a space of negotiation between social inclusion and exclusion. By examining the experiences of participants in cultural events and the planners of such events, I try to identify possible advantages as well as dangers related to the process of transferring cultural life to the Internet. The scope of my research embraces accessible cultural events offered by selected institutions and non-governmental organizations in Poland. Research data was collected by interviewing both employees and participants of events with visual impairment. I have also drawn upon my own experiences as a blind admirer of culture and a worker in the sector of cultural accessibility. My main research question is: Does the virtualization of culture make events more accessible for people with visual impairment, or does it increase already-existing barriers? A further issue is explored—namely new solutions that are appearing in the accessible remote events on offer. The theoretical framework for this study includes accessibility studies and disability studies.