Anna Wiederhold Wolfe
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- School: Texas A&M University
- Campus: College Station
- Department: Communication
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College Station, TX - Dates at Texas A&M University: November 2016 - December 2019
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Prof. Wolfe is truly incredible. I can't even stress how good she is. She really knows her stuff and puts in effort to get to know her students personally. This class was the first class I've taken that is very relevant in life. She is honestly the best professor I have ever had. I would really recommend taking her.
Biography
Texas A&M University College Station - Communication
Assistant Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University
Higher Education
Anna
Wolfe
Reno, Nevada
I study the interactional processes of conflict in group, organizational, and community contexts. I am passionate about understanding how we engage with others when we come into contact with difference, how our stories function to draw boundaries of inclusivity and exclusivity, and how we use language to manage tensions, stigmas, and emotions that threaten to separate us from other segments of society. I currently teach courses in Small Group Communication, Organizational Communication, Leadership, and Facilitation.
Experience
Ohio University
Graduate Teaching Associate
Instructor of Record:
COMS 101: Fundamentals of Human Communication (~25 students)
COMS 103: Public Speaking (~25 students)
COMS 205: Techniques of Group Discussion (~25 students)
COMS 215: Argumentative Analysis and Advocacy (~25 students)
COMS 396: Practicum in Communication Education (25-35 students)
POCO 201: Introduction to Political Communication (~30 students)
POCO 401: Seminar in Political Communication (~12 students)
Teaching Assistant:
COMS 101: Fundamentals of Human Communication (~400 students)University of Nevada Reno
Assistant Professor - Communication Studies
Instructor of Record:
COM 315: Small Group Communication
COM 317: Organizational Communication
COM 464: Leadership: A Communication Perspective
COM 468: Facilitating Difficult DiscussionsThe Interactivity Foundation
Resident and Research Consultant
Studying the processes and outcomes involved in Interactivity Foundation hosted Citizen Discussions through surveys, direct observations, and follow-up interviews with facilitators and participants.
Qualitatively analyzing electronically archived survey responses on IF public discussions in order to better understand outcomes related to civic attitudes, policy learning, and community-engaged behaviors.Texas A&M University
Assistant Professor of Communication
Instructor of Record:
COMM 210: Group Communication and Discussion
COMM 447: Communication, Group Processes and Collaboration
COMM 689: Dark Side of CommunicationOffice of the Governor, State of Ohio
Assistant to the Governor's Speechwriter
Collected quotes and data for Governor Stricklands speeches, compiled and distributed daily news clips to state employees, transcribed interviews, and answered press phone calls.
Education
Georgetown College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Political Science and Communication & Media Studies
Ohio University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Communication Studies
Primary Area: Relating & Organizing (Interpersonal & Organizational Communication) Secondary Area: Rhetoric & Public Culture Dissertation Title: Constructing "Community" in a Changing Economy: A Case Study Analysis of Local Organizing in the Rural United States Certificate in Women's and Gender StudiesOhio University
Graduate Teaching Associate
Instructor of Record: COMS 101: Fundamentals of Human Communication (~25 students) COMS 103: Public Speaking (~25 students) COMS 205: Techniques of Group Discussion (~25 students) COMS 215: Argumentative Analysis and Advocacy (~25 students) COMS 396: Practicum in Communication Education (25-35 students) POCO 201: Introduction to Political Communication (~30 students) POCO 401: Seminar in Political Communication (~12 students) Teaching Assistant: COMS 101: Fundamentals of Human Communication (~400 students)Oxford University
International Normative Theory
Attended as part of Georgetown College's Oxford Scholar Program
Publications
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
(Dis)Engagement and everyday democracy in stigmatized places: Addressing brain drain in the rural United States
Western Journal of Communication
This study explores rural young adults’ processes of engaging in practices of everyday democracy after the loss of the area’s largest employer introduced stigmas of unemployment, stagnation, and abandonment. When young people decided to participate in community life despite these stigmas, they primarily engaged through selective participation via their affiliations with nonstigmatized groups or by challenging stigma through acts of creation. In explaining their rationales for these strategies, participants positioned themselves as occupying liminal spaces or as directly answerable for creating a particular type of community. We discuss implications of each position for addressing the practical problem of brain drain.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home: Shifting researcher positionality with mobile interviewing methods
Qualitative Research
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them—as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile interviewing methods can shift the positionality of both researchers-at-home and researchers-not-at-home. For researchers-at-home, these methods can help to move beyond the familiar to capitalize on the resources of the researchers’ personal local knowledge in conversation with study participants. For researchers-not-at-home, mobile interviewing methods can help to build familiarity with local places and interpretations, while also facilitating access.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Narrative spaces between intractability outside the clinic.
Health Communication
In this essay, the author reflects on her experience conducting field research outside an abortion clinic amid volatile protests and counterprotests. She identifies moments of convergence in the oppositional groups’ narrative explanations for participating in the weekly protests, and contemplates the possibilities for dialogue in these sorts of intractable conflicts. She concludes with reflections on communication scholars’ roles in engaging with polarizing health narratives.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Hearing all sides? Soliciting and managing different viewpoints in deliberation.
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
This book chapter examines the role of disagreement in the 2009 Australian Citizens' Parliament. Through a systematic analysis of transcripts from plenary sessions and small-table discussions at this deliberative event, we focus on how event organizers, facilitators, and participants solicited and managed different perspectives and opinions during the ACP. We argue that one can distinguish deliberative and dialogic diversity, which together serve three functions: brainstorming, blending, and building.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Discursive strategies of civil disagreement in public dialogue groups.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This case study investigates how participants in public dialogue sessions engaged in what they term “civil disagreement.” These sessions encouraged participants to explore a wide range of policy options on a public issue and consider diverse perspectives and possibilities for action. Using Action Implicative Discourse Analysis, we examine civil disagreement as a discursive problem. We argue that “civil disagreement” in public dialogue sessions is temporally bound, involves extended engagement in disagreement, and is viewed as productive by group members. Group members use discursive strategies such as challenging through questions, rearticulating claims while acknowledging other perspectives, and editing or reframing. Group members also use silence to demonstrate listening or to indicate their assessment of the situation as finalized. These discursive strategies demonstrate aspects of participants' situated ideals about public dialogue, which are related to their role in the disagreement and their construals of time. We offer practical implications for facilitators' use of guidelines, discussion of timing, and awareness of the multiple meanings of silence during disagreement.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Work-life management in legal prostitution: Stigma and lockdown in Nevada's brothels
Human Relations
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel industry, this article focuses on the prevalence of boundary segmentation as a dominant work–life management practice for dirty workers. Our analysis suggests that work–life boundaries are disciplined by legal mythologies and ambiguities surrounding worker restrictions, occupational ideologies of ‘work now, life later,’ and perceived and experienced effects of community-based stigma. These legal, occupational and community constructs ultimately privilege organizations’ and external communities’ interests, while individual dirty workers carry the weight of stigma.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
Managing image in a core-stigmatized organization: Concealment and revelation in Nevada's legal brothels
Management Communication Quarterly
This study examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by Nevada’s legal brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, we examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
The 9/11 Report, A Graphic Adaptation: Making meaning in the (gutter) spaces between word, image, and ideology.
International Journal of Comic Art
This article discusses how interactions between visual and verbal elements present innovative solutions and unique challenges to the crisis of representation through an analysis of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón’s graphic adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report. The significance of graphic narrative lies in its ability to cue perceptual gestalts, allowing space for meaning-making in the (dis)connections between words and images. The artists of the graphic adaptation are able to transcend the limitations of a purely verbal medium by providing extra-textual cues to visually represent ambiguity, absences, and multiple temporalities. However, this article also argues that representation is never ideologically neutral. This argument is substantiated through an analysis of Jacobson and Colón’s visual dramatizations of women and Muslim people.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Embodying imperfect unity: Womanhood and synchronicity in anti-war protest.
Journal of Gender Studies
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1,000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyses the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Iris Marion Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies—skeleton and organs, ligaments and tendons, muscles and fat—move and exist in a particular time in history, a particular geographic space, surrounded by particular other people who are co-constructing ways of being in the world together. In the past several decades, numerous public examples have emerged of women in particular creatively constructing themselves in relation to their given socio-historical conditions. This article engages in a two-part analysis, of a ‘productive misreading’ of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and of the synchronized performance-protests orchestrated by the Lysistrata Project, in order to better understand the ways in which gendered bodies are enabled and constrained by their physical and social environments in performing dissent.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
Organizing collective action amid the ripple effects of change: Narratives of crisis, disaster, and opportunity
Journal of Applied Communication Research
This study examines how narrative is used by remote stakeholders to cope with organizational change. Specifically, I focus on the public narratives of community leaders because these narratives often function as a rhetorical resource to attract businesses, receive grants, and retain local residents. Public stories announcing, explaining, and managing the ripple effects of organizational change warrant deeper analysis in order to refine our ability to respond to these effects at a community level. This in-depth case study analysis of one community’s efforts to respond to the loss of its largest employer suggests that naming a change event as a crisis, disaster, or opportunity positions actors differently within narratives, creating powerful implications for social action. Specifically, crisis narratives call for punishment of the causal agent and legislation of responsibility; disaster narratives call for assistance to affected communities and legislation of support; and opportunity narratives create an unclear policy mandate and demand transformational leadership to mobilize action.
