Knowledge, Culture and Interdisciplinary Dialogue

2008 ◽  
pp. 184-189
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Migrant Diplomacies: Rethinking Diplomacy Beyond State-Centric Perspectives. A Civic Bi-Nationality Experience from North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Alejo
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Migrant Activism ◽  
Point Of Departure

There is a pressing need to extend our thinking about diplomacy beyond state-centric perspectives, as in the name of sovereignty and national interests, people on move are confronting virtual, symbolic and/or material walls and frames of policies inhibiting their free movement. My point of departure is to explore migrant activism and global politics through the transformation of diplomacy in a globalised world. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue between new diplomacy and sociology, I evidence the emergence of global sociopolitical formations created through civic bi-nationality organisations. Focusing on the agent in interaction with structures, I present a theoretical framework and strategy for analysing the practices of migrant diplomacies as an expression of contemporary politics. A case study from North America regarding returned families in Mexico City provides evidence of how these alternative diplomacies are operating.

scholarly journals Enacting Service Work in a Changing World: Time for a Dialogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 109467052198945
Author(s):  
Mahesh Subramony ◽  
Markus Groth
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Frontline Employees ◽  
Service Worker ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Sector Service ◽  
Perfect Storm ◽  
Changing World

Service work is rapidly evolving as a result of technological innovations, changing employment norms, and a variety of environmental challenges. Yet, the scope of service work scholarship appears to be restricted to traditional frontline employees occupying boundary-spanning positions in formal private-sector service organizations. Given the “perfect storm” of multiple disruptions, we believe that the time is ripe for service scholars to reexamine how service work is being (and will be) enacted in a changing world. In this editorial, we propose an expansion of the “service worker” construct, recommend a deeper exploration of the experiences of service workers, and call to situate these experiences within an evolving service work ecosystem. Our aim is to spark interdisciplinary dialogue related to service work in order to foster service scholarship and practice that are responsive to the changing world.

Reflection of embedded knowledge culture in communications of Australian companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Miklosik ◽  
Nina Evans ◽  
Maria Hasprova ◽  
Julia Lipianska
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Embedded Knowledge

scholarly journals The Other Vernacular: Commoner Knowledge Culture Circa 1919

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Judge
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
May Fourth Movement ◽  
Linguistic Form ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Fourth Movement ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
May Fourth

This essay complicates our understanding of the May Fourth Movement of the late 19teens by isolating a layer of culture that was integral to the era but largely forgotten in later scholarship. This cultural layer of discourse and practice intersected with two of the Movement’s most iconic projects – connecting with “the people” and establishing a vernacular language. This view from the cultural margins helps us excavate the less known byways and potentialities of what has come down to us as an epochal history. It further leads us to question the inevitability of established historical trajectories: from May Fourth populism to the mass politics of the PRC, from the vernacular movement to the linguistic form that stabilized to become baihua.

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