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{"title":"A Tribute to Jan Blommaert","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2021.1880693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2021.1880693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2021.1880693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44247929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Positioning of the recently arrived student: a discourse analysis of Sweden’s Language Introduction Programme","authors":"Åsa Wedin","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2021.1913174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2021.1913174","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how recently arrived students are positioned and position themselves in the Language Introduction Programme in upper secondary school in Sweden using a combination of position theory with nexus analysis. The material used consists of official national documents and local school documents, observations, interviews and photographs. Circulating discourses are analysed through discourses in place, historical bodies and interaction order. The analysis revealed ambiguous and conflicting discourses at the school, where students in the Language Introduction Programme are positioned both as having rights and as being deficient, lacking what is here termed Swedishness. While principals place the responsibility on students themselves to use Swedish in social situations, official documents emphasise the duty of the principals to ensure that education is relevant. Students’ voices do not appear to be important, and their agency is mainly restricted to their own learning. The identities that were made possible relied on their mastery of Swedish. Conflicting discourses circulate regarding the rights of students and their weaknesses and responsibilities. The combination of these two factors may mean that students run the risk of being positioned as having few opportunities to be successful at school.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2021.1913174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46630115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Power and the pandemic: a perspective from communication and social psychology","authors":"C. Gallois, Shuang Liu","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2021.1884253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2021.1884253","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic has overturned health, economic, and social systems everywhere in the world. As happens in a crisis, particularly one of this magnitude, this one has shown the best and the worst in individuals, groups, and larger entities like nations. Social identity has loomed large in the way people look at the world, as borders close and people start to fear each other. In this paper, we approach the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of communication and social psychology. Mowlana (this Issue) calls for more consideration of soft forms of power, and we support this call. We also note some of the risks involved with neglecting other sources of power, and in particular the interactions between various types of power. Finally, we make some suggestions for applying this approach to social-science research on Covid-19 and its consequences. All ten sources of tangible or hard power that Mowlana (this Issue) notes have loomed large in public policy and thinking, as well as in individual discussions. Many have argued that Covid-19 is both a health and an economic crisis. In this climate, it is easy to forget less tangible or soft power – the power between people and groups that stems from identity, religion, ideology, and communication (among other sources). This is what Mowlana exhorts us not to do. As one of the leaders in the thinking around soft power, he notes the potential for both influence and understanding coming from the analysis of soft power. In a macro-level discussion of power around the world, he gives a broad introduction to culture, and the ways in which culture conveys power and thence soft power. He articulates the sources of both hard and soft power, and discusses the strong connections and interactions between them. He argues for the great increase in understanding that comes from considering all sources of power, not only the obvious ones. In the case of the Covid19 pandemic, obvious sources include especially the economy, health, and the balance between them. This call for more complexity in analyses of the Covid-19 pandemic is both necessary and important. While many governments have based their policies and rules in the crisis around finding the balance between containing the epidemic and salvaging their economies, it is clear that the situation is more complicated. Very recently, the head of the World Health Organisation called on richer nations to distribute the new anti Covid-19 vaccines equitably, rather than simply putting their own nations first. He did not","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2021.1884253","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43545637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discourses of colorblind racism on an internet forum","authors":"Christian Stokke","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2021.1896529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2021.1896529","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyzes discourses of everyday racism and colorblind racism on an internet forum. While skin color is invisible online, identities as black, white and shades in between show through participants’ perspectives and communicative behavior in discussions about racism. Critical race theory and whiteness studies argue that there is a perception gap between black and white perspectives on racism, linked to positionality in social structures, which influences experiences and shapes perceptions of the world. This paper shows how black participants in online discussions tend to be more conscious of racial issues and skilled at recognizing racism, while whites often reflect a colorblind discourse that denies structural racism and reproduces everyday racism. Starting with critical perspectives of conscious blacks on the forum and drawing on Cultural Discourse Studies and critical race theory, this paper examines power relations and cultural perspectives underlying white participants’ claims, perspectives and speech acts.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2021.1896529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42558388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of strategic communication to respond effectively to pandemics","authors":"Gary L. Kreps","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2021.1885417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2021.1885417","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Health communication is a crucial social process for responding to devastating pandemics, which demand timely, accurate, and culturally sensitive communication that meaningfully informs coordinated and effective responses. The current coronavirus pandemic has not been responded to well in many parts of the world due, in large part, to ineffective communication, resulting in high rates of infection, death, and suffering. This article examines the communication demands of responding to pandemics and expands upon Mowlana’s point that pandemics demand novel responsive programs and policies to adapt to serious challenges. The article applies Mowlana’s examination of power issues that emerge during pandemics by focusing on the power of health and risk communication, sharing relevant health information, promoting sensemaking, and encouraging coordination in response to pandemics. Relevant health information can empower effective responses to pandemics by enhancing understanding about health threats, enabling development of evidence-based strategies for responding to threats, and providing guidance for averting and addressing future pandemics. This article is grounded in the systems principle of requisite variety and community-based sense-making tenets of Weick’s model of organizing. The development of strategic communication responses to pandemics is shown to provide important opportunities to promote international health diplomacy through the use of soft power.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2021.1885417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49294704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The cultural dimensions of the coronavirus crisis: soft power revisited","authors":"H. Mowlana","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2020.1863415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1863415","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For many people around the world, the scale of the coronavirus crisis called to patterns of escalating cultural problems and polarization we have faced. This article looks at the cultural and power dimensions of this crisis in the context of soft power theory and makes a number of conceptual suggestions for future research.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2020.1863415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48038455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Speculations on the political agency of public MatterBio","authors":"Tom Bowers","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2020.1857766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1857766","url":null,"abstract":"Beatrice Dube’s article directs those engaged in the study of discourse to an important line of inquiry: while states and governments may evolve political policies may not, and the persistence of these policies, including those that continue practices of inequality, may be rooted in the continuation of certain practices of discourse. In her analysis of the inability of water allocation reform in South Africa to ‘promote equitable access of water for all,’ Dube moves the discussion away from associating the policy’s failure with structural constraints, leading us instead to the persistence of a discourse that promotes what she characterizes as ‘deficit thinking.’ This discourse, espoused through various strata of South African society, defines black individuals as incapable of being ‘active and productive water users as well as competent government officials.’ Dube’s research offers a clear example of the influence of discourse in shaping bodies, beliefs, and practices, but it also leaves us to consider the availability of alternatives and challenges to the prevailing ideology and discourse. In this brief commentary, I want to promote discussion of the possibilities afforded by the recent turn to the material as a means to identify the emergence of public agency and alternative discourses and the potential for such material-discursive becoming to advance social change. With the increasing contemporary presence of a wide range of material objects central to human existence, numerous intellectuals during the past decade have positioned matter as an active force that constitutes not just the material world but also the social world (Latour 2005; Bennett 2010; Barad 2007: Braidotti 2013). Granting matter agency is driven not just by the ubiquity of materiality but also by the suggested limits of the linguistic and representational construction of reality. More than just a product of the symbolic, reality is also constituted through the relations among objects, with the becoming of the world a product of other-than-human actions. The intellectual movement, which for the sake of conciseness I will refer to as new materialism, is not without detractors, with some questioning the merits of the approach based on definitions of agency, a neglect of power, a reliance on metaphysical attunement, and an overly optimistic promise of a more ethical and just world (Malm 2018; Lettow 2017; Rekret 2016; Washick et al. 2015). As with all knowledge work, the challenges to new materialism should not be cause to negate the approach but should rather serve as prompts by which to reconsider and refine the relation between matter and discourse. Dube’s example of water allocation reform in South Africa offers an excellent opportunity to further explore the relation,","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2020.1857766","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43010858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When digitization is not enough. A perspective from the museum field in the digital age","authors":"Héctor Valverde Martínez","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2020.1859518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1859518","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>The inclusion-exclusion of visitors in museum spaces since the introduction of digital devices has its correlation with the narratives that give origin to the Mexican museums, which are institutions with roots so deep that perceive the changes as a prosthetic element that is added to the already proven formula of making and understanding the (traditional) museum. In that sense, this text seeks to identify the narratives and the political, social, economic and communicative implications that the introduction of digital devices as interpretative tools in museum spaces has. The results obtained from a job carried out at the International Baroque Museum in the summer of 2019, in which a series of interviews were applied to the visitors and museum staff, as well as participating in observation exercises which will serve as a reference to illustrate the statement that museums are institutions that try to maintain the traditional relationship between visitors and museums despite the introduction of digital devices, reinforcing the exclusion by maintaining the forms of expression inherited by the colonial past of the museum.</p>","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deficit thinking in South Africa's water allocation reform discourses: a cultural discourse perspective","authors":"B. Dube","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2020.1835926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1835926","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article focuses on how deficit thinking emerges from the statements made by some of the participants of a study on water allocation reform in South Africa. It draws from interviews and focus group discussions from a select few participants of the qualitative study. The application of the deconstructive strategy to analyse data revealed perceptions of deficiencies in the capacities of Black people in agriculture as well as in government offices. The study found that expressions of concern regarding threats on the environment when and if water is allocated to Black communities were based on assumptions of inherent deficiencies within the Black communities. This article characterises this perception as ‘deficit thinking’. The article provides the basis for such characterisation by explaining the origins and meaning of the concept of deficit thinking. It argues for the need to consider the impact of social forces such as apartheid discriminatory practices on the socio-economic constitution of the Black person. The article concludes that deficit thinking needs to be considered and confronted as a challenge trumping water reform. It warns of the implicitness and covertness of deficit thinking and recommends that discourses reflect the realities of post-1994 South Africa which emerged from colonial and apartheid rule.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2020.1835926","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49516059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chinese discourse studies in media and politics: theories, concepts and methodologies","authors":"Yuan Ping","doi":"10.1080/17447143.2020.1825453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1825453","url":null,"abstract":"China’s growing economic, political and military strength has captured worldwide attention, engendering debate about its geopolitical implications (Power and Mohan 2010). The news media play a crucial role in people’s perception of China as a rising power which, in turn, has affected the course of international politics and foreign policy (Zhang 2010). For years, China has sought to promote a positive image of itself to the outside world (Barr 2012), as events and decisions in China increasingly have an impact on politics and economics globally. Understanding how Chinese society is developing has thus become a key issue for scholars and policymakers around the globe. Brand China in the Media and Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China are two comprehensive studies of this growing area of research, offer critical insights into Chinese discourse studies and illustrate the crucial role played by discourses in the transformation of Chinese society and identity. They also both unveil the strategies and sociocultural implications of political and media discourses. This review article first gives a brief overview of each book and then compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between these two books, considering thematic, conceptual and methodological dimensions.","PeriodicalId":45223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multicultural Discourses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17447143.2020.1825453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45797869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}