Space For Dialogue Research Articles

Islamic State of Indonesia in modern Indonesian memorial culture

The purpose of the article is to analyze the peculiarities of the perception of the Islamic State of Indonesia (1949–1962) in modern Indonesian memorial culture and historical collective memory. It is assumed that the ideological contradictions and methodological difficulties of localizing the history of Islam in the culture of memory of Indonesia are aggravated by the collective traumas of mutual violence and mistrust between secular nationalists and their Islamic opponents. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the attempts of the Indonesian society to form a compromise canon of the culture of historical memory as a space for dialogue and development of the images of the Islamic State, which was previously the object of negative mythologization, which led to its marginalization in the collective historical memory. The author analyses 1) the features of the imagination of the Islamic State in the politics of memory, 2) the prospects and contradictions of integrating the history of the Islamic State into the historical imagination of the memorial culture of Indonesia, 3) attempts to revise the history of the Islamic State in the context of the development of the memorial culture of modern Indonesian society. The results of the study suggest that Indonesian society is active in its attempts to use the mechanisms of historical politics to form a new image of the history of the Islamic State, seeking to build a compromise version of the memorial culture, which would include secular and religious versions of historical memory.

Las políticas de seguridad y defensa como valor público y bien común

In the current risk scenario, security policy is increasingly developing beyond what some have called the strictly security-oriented. In this sense, commons theory is a key conceptual framework for understanding the transformation and paradigm shift in security policy. The questions raised in this monograph revolve around the theoretical-conceptual framework of the commons, or some of its elements. From the perspective of the commons, security and defence, and their public policies, take into account the value created by the dynamics between different actors. Thus, firstly, maritime security is approached from a military perspective and, at the same time, it is understood as a common good. This means recognising the fundamental importance of the sea for the development of nations, as well as for international well-being. Then, with regard to the European Union's security and defence policy, it discusses how to enhance the value of this common good, which is international security. And it does so by addressing the issue of the European Armed Forces, first by explaining the reasons for the consolidation of the F-35 aircraft. Subsequently, focusing on the approach of tackling security from the perspective of the common good, we learn first-hand about the study that combines an educational and cultural policy for the Prevention of Violent Extremism, by entering into a pioneering educational experience of the dialogic space in the Master's Degree in Global Security Policies: Prevention of Violent Extremism at the University of Barcelona, in which the Holocaust, the Gulag, feminicide and jihadist terrorism are addressed. Security is then analysed in relation to citizen coexistence. And as it is part of a monograph on security as a common good, public space is explained, not only from the idea of public property or ownership that the public domain entails, but also from its conception as a common good. Next, urban security is explained with a three-dimensional assessment that allows for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of municipal security policies with a specific case study. Finally, all of the above studies are underpinned by the theorisation of security and defence as common goods.

Derecho humano a la seguridad: Prevención del Extremismo Violento con Vasili Grossman

This study addresses the human right to security from the perspective of the Preventing Violent Extremism. The Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) is a strategy within the United Nations framework focused on strengthening respect for human rights. The PVE addresses violent extremism that leads to terrorism from the perspective of prevention and human rights. The most relevant aspect of this perspective is its innovation to guarantee security as a human right. Moreover, the PVE arises as a response to anti-terrorist security policies that are considered insufficient to eradicate this phenomenon. The PVE action measures, therefore, go beyond what is strictly known as security policy. Education and culture, in this sense, have an important role in the PVE, as highlighted by UNESCO. The analysis that is developed exposes a proposal for a dialogical space that applies the measure of education, culture, and awareness through literature. Thus, based on the dialogue with Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, we reflect on violent extremism and human rights.

When controversial businesses meet dialogic communication: Insights from public relations practitioners in the oil and gas industry

This study investigated how public relations practitioners understand and practice dialogic communication in the controversial oil and gas industry. Guided by theoretical works of dialogic theory of public relations, the dialogic ladder, and negative spaces of dialogue, in-depth interviews were conducted with 21 practitioners who held public relations/communication positions serving the oil and gas industry in Canada. The findings suggest some points of alignment between practitioners’ understanding of dialogic public relations and the related theoretical orientation. Practitioners reported predominantly using an interpersonal approach for shallow dialogue followed by mediated and procedural approaches with different stakeholders in practice. Interviewees also shared the unique challenges they face in practicing dialogic communication due to the controversies surrounding the industry. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Do Historical GIS and Digital Humanities Walk Hand in Hand?

In a number of countries today, borrowing from a discussion that originated in Anglo-Saxon countries, there is an increasingly insistent discussion of historical GIS as one of the stars of the digital humanities galaxy. The reasoning has been addressed, albeit with some delay and distinctly by disciplinary sectors, in a number of contributions and congresses and has seen the prevalence of a substantial acceptance of this thesis that pegs historical GIS as a component of the macro-sector of digital humanities. An alternative reading on the real convenience of maintaining a rather disciplinary distance between both is offered for the purposes of cognitive growth. It is therefore not a question of establishing primaries or hegemonies of one over the other but rather a “call to arms” (historians, geographers, urban planners, archaeologists, ecologists, etc.) by leveraging the scientific heterogeneity (interdisciplinarity), offering space for common dialogue. Thus, through the uniting of different forces that individually remain partial and marginal in the use of historical GIS will it be possible to consider real growth that can enable an effective enrichment of geographical-historical-cartographic research based on the use of GIS in face of the digital humanities.

Asymmetric power relations in multistakeholder initiatives: Insights from the government-instituted Indonesian National Forestry Council

Waves of democratization, which occurred in Indonesia by the end of the 1990s, have provided opportunities to deepen and diversify broader civil society elements for engagement in formal public policymaking. In the forestry sector emerged a multistakeholder initiative of the National Forestry Council (Dewan Kehutanan Nasional/ DKN), which was envisioned to promote good forest governance by engaging the broader public in the formulation of strategies and policy options to foster intelligent forest management in Indonesia. The DKN was instituted to create a space for multistakeholder dialogues and learning, and was expected to become an influential body in national forest-related policy-making processes. Through the application of theories related to power relations in multistakeholder initiatives, this paper assesses whether the DKN functions as a deliberative and inclusive platform. The hope and expectation placed upon the DKN were sky- high. The DKN initially provided opportunities for the spectrum of public/governments, private sector organizations, and civil society groups to come together on the same table. It also drew support from many institutions at the national level and donor agencies. However, the DKN has later shown the unequal resources of participants and eventual asymmetric power relations. As a result, it fully facilitated deliberative processes due to the asymmetric power that subtly manifested through the stakeholders’ interaction patterns, which were heavily driven by the government.

Introspection of Raimundus Lullus

The spiritual quest of Raymond Lull is of interest to modern philosophical discourse as occupying an intermediate position between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and thus combining the features of these two eras in the history of the development of human thought. They are connected with the Middle Ages by theocentrism and traditionalism, and with the Renaissance by emphasizing the peculiar polyphony of the world, the predominance of plurality over unity, given in the autonomous dialogic space of the human personality as a gradual immanentization of the presence of a transcendent deity, associated with the acceptance by man of the external world as the only possible one. This immanentization is carried out by Luli in the symbol of Love as the Unity of the Loving and the Beloved, explicating the thinker's introspection. The novelty of the work lies in the application of the teachings of A.F. Losev about the interpretive symbol, which made it possible to consider them as a special form of explication of the personality as its transcendence and simultaneous immanence, being a special form of introspection, which correlates with Lull's teaching about Love as a fluctuation in which the Beloved descends, and the Lover ascends. This contributes to the actualization of Lull's spiritual quest as an integrity, a unique eidos, in which each of the separate features of Raymond Lull's spiritual quest is realized in a special way, reflecting the intermediate position occupied by the thinker between the worlds of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The proposed model of mutual positing of the "components" of Lull's teaching allows us to show one of the possibilities for the interaction of the thinker's logical system (understanding the force, its bearer and passively perceiving its beginning) and his theologically oriented personal spiritual quest as a special kind of dynamics in which the leading role is assigned to introspection as a personal intentions, a kind of mythological sub-foundation of the actual logical dimension of the thinker's teachings.

Unreconciled accounts? Screen and performing arts in post-conflict Northern Ireland

ABSTRACT In any post-conflict society, the work of creating an effective framework for truth and reconciliation is fraught with challenges that those in power will often seek to manage and manipulate. In this article we explore the critical role of the arts within the discourse of political reconciliation in contemporary Northern Ireland. Taking contemporary theatre and screen culture as our case-studies, we assess the extent to which these modes of cultural production create alternative spaces for dialogue and reconciliation in a dysfunctional post-conflict democracy, where the responsibility of political institutions and elites is failing to adequately address the rights of victims and survivors.

Factors influencing the involvement of health care professionals in the administration of medical aid in dying in Quebec

On February 16, 2023, the Quebec provincial Minister for Health and Seniors introduced Bill 11, which would allow people suffering from serious and incurable diseases to benefit from medical aid in dying (MAID) through an advanced consent, in anticipation of incapacity. In addition, people with severe neuromotor disabilities such as quadriplegia would also be eligible for MAID if they meet the other eligibility criteria. If this bill is adopted, we can expect the number of MAID to increase in the coming years. Moreover, the number of HCPs who agree to be involved in the process of administering MAID remains relatively stable and objectively low, which generates an additional clinical, psychological and administrative burden for HCPs who agree to provide this care. Through a narrative review of the scientific literature, we found that there have been very few empirical studies about the factors that contribute (positively or negatively) to HCP involvement in the MAID process. The data show that among the factors that have been identified in the scientific literature as discouraging the involvement of HCPs in MAID, some are related to HCPs’ freedom of conscience and their core values, while others are more pragmatic and emerge from the reality of the field. Many factors influence negatively HCP participation in MAID. However, some of these factors, specifically those that are not related to the exercise of freedom of conscience, may potentially be mitigated by the implementation of appropriate resources, such as the creation of a space for safe dialogue. This article highlights the heterogeneity of factors that can interfere with the involvement of HCPs in MAID and, above all, the need for further investigation of these issues in order to adequately take them into consideration in the organization and provision of care.

Polyphony of form and ideas in the works of Milan Kundera

This article explores the influence of music on the composition of Milan Kundera’s novels, focusing particularly on how polyphonic thought influences his most recent published novel The Festival of Insignificance. This text exemplifies Kundera’s use of the principles of fugue – a form in which each voice, though independent and equal in status to the other voices, forms an integral part of a complete entity and helps to make meanings. The novel demonstrates an experimental thought process that opens up space for dialogue both within the text and outside it. In general terms, the principle of polyphony in literature is connected with the idea that nothing in the world is entirely unambiguous. It rests on the principle of plurality: there exists no single truth, no single viewpoint or perspective, so any thought or idea always exists in counterpoint with another thought or idea. However, the fact that we can hear more voices does not objectivize or relativize the meaning of a text; instead it creates a genuine polyphony of voices, each of which has equal status, which can exist in various relationships to each other, without any individual voice ever representing the definitive truth. This article also seeks to demonstrate how the polyphonic principle is a phenomenon existing on the boundary-line between music and literature; to do so, it draws on the concept of intermediality. From this perspective, polyphony can be viewed as an intermedia phenomenon, positioned at a point between intermedia reference (in the form of imitation) and transmedialization.

Character Development and the ‘In-Between’

A plethora of discussions have been made on character development since Aristotle’s musings on Eudaimonia. These musings have led to multiple perspectives on character development; however, they rarely touch on the area of the ‘in-between,’ a space of tensionality (Aoki 1996) for character development within multi-cultural settings. This article explores the concept of character development, discusses the importance of the language of virtues, critiques the notion of the ‘in-between,’ in connection with home- and host- cultures, and concludes with the implications of the ‘in-between’ within the context of character development in multi-cultural settings. The intent is to explore the ‘in-between’ as a space for negotiations that provide opportunities for character development.

Tensions in an Identity‐Oriented Language Teaching Practicum: A Dialogic Approach

AbstractIn this study, we examine how teacher candidates navigate the tensions in their identity work as they complete the activities in the TESOL practicum course in Turkiye. Using the Bakhtinian approach to teacher identity, we conceptually maintain that identity work inevitably involves tensions that teachers encounter during their professional lives. We use a qualitative case study design to explore how two teacher candidates (Erdem and Murat) experience and understand identity tensions through dialogic engagement in an identity‐oriented practicum course. We collected data from a series of identity‐oriented activities that promote a dialogic space for teacher candidates to negotiate and enact their identities. We found that although their attempts to deal with the tensions varied, both teacher candidates made use of the self and community dialogues constructed through identity‐oriented teacher learning activities. Pushing back at authoritative discourses of language teaching prevailing in the university program and the practicum school, they engaged in identity work by constructing their internally persuasive discourses which guided their practice. Facing the contextual demands, Erdem raised doubts about his ideal way of teaching he tried out in the practicum, whereas Murat went beyond the past and the present by foregrounding his imagined identity which served as a liberating aspiration.

What matters to us: Bridging research and accurate information through dialogue (BRAID) to build community trust and cultivate vaccine confidence

Despite higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections and mortality, vaccine uptake in Black and Latinx populations remained disproportionately low, including in the Bronx, New York. In response, we used the Bridging Research, Accurate Information, and Dialogue (BRAID) model to elicit community members’ COViD-19 vaccine-related perspectives and informational needs and inform strategies to improve vaccine acceptance.We conducted a longitudinal qualitative study over 13 months (May 2021-June 2022), with 25 community experts from the Bronx including community health workers, and representatives from community-based organizations. Each expert participated in 1–5 of the 12 conversation circles conducted via Zoom. Clinicians and scientists, attended circles to provide additional information in content areas identified by the experts. Inductive thematic analysis was used to analyze the conversations.Five overarching themes, related to trust, emerged: (1) disparate and unjust treatment from institutions; (2) the impact of rapidly changing COVID messages in the lay press (a different story every day); (3) influencers of vaccine intention; (4) strategies to build community trust; and (5) what matters to community experts [us].Our findings highlighted the influence of factors, such as health communication, on trust (or lack thereof) and vaccine intention. They also reinforce that creating safe spaces for dialogue and listening and responding to community concerns in real time are effective trust-building strategies. The BRAID model fostered open discussion about the factors that influence vaccine uptake and empowered participants to share accurate information with their community. Our experience suggests that the model can be adapted to address many public health issues.

Realising radical potential: building community power in primary health care through Participatory Action Research

BackgroundWhile community participation is an established pro-equity approach in Primary Health Care (PHC), it can take many forms, and the central category of power is under-theorised. The objectives were to (a) conduct theory-informed analysis of community power-building in PHC in a setting of structural deprivation and (b) develop practical guidance to support participation as a sustainable PHC component.MethodsStakeholders representing rural communities, government departments and non-governmental organisations engaged through a participatory action research (PAR) process in a rural sub-district in South Africa. Three reiterative cycles of evidence generation, analysis, action, and reflection were progressed. Local health concerns were raised and framed by community stakeholders, who generated new data and evidence with researchers. Dialogue was then initiated between communities and the authorities, with local action plans coproduced, implemented, and monitored. Throughout, efforts were made to shift and share power, and to adapt the process to improve practical, local relevance. We analysed participant and researcher reflections, project documents, and other project data using power-building and power-limiting frameworks.ResultsCo-constructing evidence among community stakeholders in safe spaces for dialogue and cooperative action-learning built collective capabilities. The authorities embraced the platform as a space to safely engage with communities and the process was taken up in the district health system. Responding to COVID-19, the process was collectively re-designed to include a training package for community health workers (CHWs) in rapid PAR. New skills and competencies, new community and facility-based alliances and explicit recognition of CHW roles, value, and contribution at higher levels of the system were reported following the adaptations. The process was subsequently scaled across the sub-district.ConclusionsCommunity power-building in rural PHC was multidimensional, non-linear, and deeply relational. Collective mindsets and capabilities for joint action and learning were built through a pragmatic, cooperative, adaptive process, creating spaces where people could produce and use evidence to make decisions. Impacts were seen in demand for implementation outside the study setting. We offer a practice framework to expand community power in PHC: (1) prioritising community capability-building, (2) navigating social and institutional contexts, and (3) developing and sustaining authentic learning spaces.

Extending the dialogic space: developing interprofessional expertise through a student-created podcast

ABSTRACT Teachers must relate to practitioners from a range of professions, which represent different, sometimes conflicting, perspectives on teaching and learning. Thus, student teachers must develop the expertise to understand, challenge and make constructive use of the perspectives of other professionals. From a socio-cultural perspective, this study investigates how a student-created podcast emerges as an arena and genre for interprofessional work in teacher education. Interaction analysis was used to examine student teachers’ engagement with perspectives provided by professionals from the ed-tech sector. The results demonstrate how the student-created podcast affords dialogic spaces for developing interprofessional expertise in teacher education.

The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution

The platformisation of news has triggered public and scholarly concern regarding the impact of platforms on the news industry and, more importantly, platforms’ potential threat to ideals of autonomy and economic independence. Despite ongoing debate and the increasing investment in technologies for automated distribution and artificial intelligence, the material infrastructures of the news media sustaining this artificial intelligence-driven news distribution remain understudied. Approaching the infrastructural relationship as spaces of negotiation this article investigates how the news media is negotiating their own autonomy vis-à-vis infrastructure capture by platforms. The analysis is grounded in a mapping of technologies sustaining the production, distribution, and commercial viability of the media. This is further combined with ethnographic observations from two large Danish news organisations and 19 in-depth interviews with news organisations and digital intermediaries from Scandinavia, the US, and the UK. The research shows how infrastructure capture is manifested and negotiated through three overall logics in the infrastructure of news: logics of classification, standardisation, and datafication.

The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy Tomás McAuley Nanette Nielsen Jerrold Levinson and Associate Editor Ariana Phillips-Hutton

The first major publication to emerge from the Royal Musical Association’s Music & Philosophy Study Group (RMA MPSG), The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy represents in some ways the culmination of the Study Group conferences that since 2010 have been held on an annual, latterly biennial, basis at the Strand Campus, King’s College London. The RMA MPSG conferences provide an all-too-rare space for collaboration and dialogue between musicologists, philosophers, and those working in the interstices. That spirit of mutual engagement animates the Handbook, to which music scholars and philosophers have contributed in roughly equal proportion. The volume is organized in six parts: I. ‘Mapping the Field’; II. ‘History’; III. ‘Philosophical Traditions and Practices’; IV. ‘Musical Traditions and Practices’; V. ‘Key Concepts’; and VI. ‘Collisions and Collaborations’. As this review lacks the space to present each chapter let alone critique it, I instead highlight some features about the volume as a whole with selected reference to individual contributions for illustration.

Christian musical innovation and changing ecological relationships

ABSTRACT This article surveys recent musical innovation at the intersection of Christianity and changing ecological relationships. Drawing on a series of extended interviews carried out in late 2019 and early 2020 with participants involved in the evangelical song-writing project Doxecology, musical aspects of Christian Climate Action protests, the creation of forest church songbooks, and requiems for lost species, the author describes the experiences and concerns of individuals who are currently active in or beginning to explore new forms of musical activity in this area. The article seeks to document the range of motivations, concerns, and issues surrounding recent musical innovation, drawing attention to the diverse nature of the current scene and highlighting the potential importance of musical and ritual activity in negotiating the current climate crisis. The author suggests that music participates in broader inter-religious tensions present in this area while providing an additional space for negotiation, experience, and activity.

Impacts of Wind Energy on Family and Local Economies in the ISTMO of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca

The implementation of wind farms in the Istmo of Tehuantepec is a clear example of the use of the green economy as a strategy for capitalist accumulation, based on the use of the discourse of environmental mitigation to ensure the accumulation of large volumes of capital, for the benefit of national and transnational corporations. All this at the cost of the territorial rights of peasant societies, the dispossession of their resources and the destruction of their cultural landscape. Wind energy has become a symbol of the type of "sustainable" development sought by the new local, state and federal administrations. They promote social and environmental impact studies that consolidate wind projects as the option for the energy transition, where the only difficulty is the lack of adequate negotiation spaces regarding land rent. The wind potential in the Istmo of Tehuantepec is imperative, as it favors the development companies, limiting the benefits for local communities and increasing social rejection to the projects.

The ‘Translated’ Cityscape: A Study of Select Satyajit Ray Films

The present paper attempts to examine the ‘translated’ nature of the cityscapes in Satyajit Ray’s films. With a select reading of films like ‘Mahanagar’ (lit. The Big City, 1963) and ‘Pratidwandi’ (The Adversary also called Siddhartha and the City, 1970), I argue for the ways in which the city becomes a space of contestation, debate, negotiation and translation between clashing ideologies of the old and the new, the rural and the urban, the ancient and the modern. Ray’s films have been studied from several perspectives, in terms of thematic, stylistic and ideological development. However, it seems to me that the city and its ‘translational’ aspect have not received enough attention. The present paper proposes to understand the role the city plays in Ray’s cinema. As an avant garde film maker, Ray’s cinema is replete with moments of conflicting ideologies, transitions and crossovers. It seems to me that the city provides the base for several such negotiations and intersections in Ray. Using certain recent developments in Translation Studies, I propose to read episodes in select Ray films as indicative of a larger ideological and cultural shift necessitated and made possible by/in the new space of the city. As a translating and translated space, the city’s agency enables other changes and transformations which would not have been possible in the absence of this primary actor – the city. The present paper is an attempt to look at several such moments of intersections and translations that Ray’s films make available to us. 1 An earlier version of this article was presented at the17th International MELOW Conference on ‘Space, Place and Language in Literatures of the World’, Dharamshala, 9-11th, March, 2018. I am grateful to the questions and discussion from the audience and conference participants which helped me rethink some ideas presented here.