Imagination, Action, and Justice

2018 ◽  
pp. 292-306
Author(s):  
Tim Huffman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Living Together

Social justice connects to trends in organizational communication scholarship. Some organizational communication traditions engage, explicitly and implicitly, social justice concepts, such as fairness, equity, freedom, structure, and poverty. Drawing on these rich traditions, even more opportunities exist for conducting organizational communication scholarship that promotes justice. This essay articulates how the theory–practice conversation can be forwarded to enable social justice-oriented scholarship. Communication scholarship can do more justice if it is understood as contributing to the “communicative imaginary” as opposed to only developing theory. The communicative imaginary is the splendid array of social possibilities that humans use to create and recreate ways of living together and sharing in one another's lives. Heroism, tragedy, comedy, and beauty are four frames within the communicative imaginary that enable the pursuit of justice. The essay concludes with a reflection on how solidarity can configure scholars' lives in meaningful and just ways.

Imagination, Action, and Justice

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
Tim Huffman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Living Together

Social justice connects to trends in organizational communication scholarship. Some organizational communication traditions engage, explicitly and implicitly, social justice concepts, such as fairness, equity, freedom, structure, and poverty. Drawing on these rich traditions, even more opportunities exist for conducting organizational communication scholarship that promotes justice. This essay articulates how the theory–practice conversation can be forwarded to enable social justice-oriented scholarship. Communication scholarship can do more justice if it is understood as contributing to the “communicative imaginary” as opposed to only developing theory. The communicative imaginary is the splendid array of social possibilities that humans use to create and recreate ways of living together and sharing in one another's lives. Heroism, tragedy, comedy, and beauty are four frames within the communicative imaginary that enable the pursuit of justice. The essay concludes with a reflection on how solidarity can configure scholars' lives in meaningful and just ways.

Narratives in teaching and research for justice and human rights

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Osler ◽  
Juanjuan Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Life History ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Overlapping Communities ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Living Together

Throughout history individual and collective narratives have been used in struggles for justice. We draw on Sen’s theory of justice to examine the potential of narratives in teaching and researching for social justice. Human rights are presented as powerful ethical claims that can be critically examined by learners to consider their rights and responsibilities to others, at scales from the local to the global. One life history is used as an illustrative example to examine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 and its possible meanings for learners in China and globally. This article discusses the strengths and limitations of narratives as research and pedagogical tools in understanding justice, human rights and inequalities; in stimulating solidarity and our common humanity; and in enabling learners to explore their multiple identities. We conclude by making the case for human rights as principles for learning and living together in overlapping communities of fate.

Feminist Organizational Communication

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen E. Arendt ◽  
Patrice M. Buzzanell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Discovery Learning ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Ideal Worker

Feminist organizational communication scholarship can be framed in four ways. The four frames display how feminisms encourage: (a) questioning gender difference; (b) performing/queering organizing; (c) disrupting online and offline organizations and their alternatives; and (d) challenging macro-Discourses and structures of gender inequality. In discussing discourses and structures, it is important to include how feminist organizational communication scholars generate knowledge(s) within and across particularities and unities, engage contradiction, and unveil neoliberalism, especially meritocracy and ideal worker norms. In discussing feminist organizational communication, the emerging trends in discovery, learning, and engagement focus on: (a) contradiction, (b) context, (c) difference, and (d) resistance through and by human and nonhuman agents.

So, who is responsible? A framing analysis of newspaper coverage of electoral violence in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Munoriyarwa
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
National Union ◽  
Electoral Violence ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Weekly Newspapers ◽  
Election Violence

This study examines how the 2008 election violence was framed in three mainstream Zimbabwean weekly newspapers – The Sunday Mail, The Independent and The Zimbabwean. It was noted that four frames – the victim, justice and human rights, trivialization and attribution of responsibility frames dominated the coverage of electoral violence in these three newspapers. The dominance of the trivializing frame in The Sunday Mail privileged the ruling party’s (Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front; ZANU PF) interpretation of electoral violence as inconsequential to the electoral process. Simultaneously, the prevalence of the victim, justice and human rights frames in The Independent and The Zimbabwean newspapers signifies the private media’s obsession with ZANU PF’s alleged electoral malpractices and situates these alleged transgressions within a broad global social justice and human rights trajectory to cultivate the West’s sympathy with the ‘victimised’ opposition.

scholarly journals Keadilan Pancasila dalam Persepektif Teori Keadilan Aristoteles

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155
Author(s):  
Riky Sembiring
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Extreme Points ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
And Behaviors

The basis of Pancasila justice is found in points 2 and 5, which reads the second principle of just and civilized humanity and the fourth principle of justice for all Indonesian people. Fair and civilized human values, that awareness of attitudes and behaviors that are in accordance with moral values ​​in living together on the basis of the demands of conscience by treating things as they should. Humans need to be treated according to their dignity and dignity, as God's creatures who are equal and have the same rights and human obligations. Based on this value, there is absolutely recognition of human rights. The value of social justice for all Indonesians implies both the basis and the goal, namely the achievement of a just and prosperous Indonesian society both physically and mentally. Based on this value, justice is a very basic value that is expected by all nations. The expected Indonesian state is an Indonesian state that is just. Justice is described fundamentally by Aristotle, namely to know about justice and injustice, three main things must be discussed, namely what actions are associated with the term, what justice means, and between the two extreme points whether justice lies.

Supervision: A Case Study

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-263
Author(s):  
Roberta Chapey ◽  
Geraldine Chapey
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Clinically Significant

Occasionally, it is the responsibility of a supervisor to help a staff speech clinician resolve professional and or personal problems that interfere with the delivery of quality services. To deal with this situation, the supervisor must be equipped with the techniques and procedures for effective organizational communication. This article presents a case study in which a speech clinician demonstrated irresponsibility in various job areas. The supervisor’s philosophy and the procedures used in managing these problems are presented. The behavioral changes suggest that the supervisor’s interventive procedures were clinically significant and warrant further investigation.

How Communication in Organizations Is Related to Foci of Commitment and Turnover Intentions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sebastian Holzwarth ◽  
George Gunnesch-Luca ◽  
Roman Soucek ◽  
Klaus Moser
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Communication In Organizations ◽  
Cohesion Theory

Abstract. The current study analyzes how two components of perceived organizational communication (vertical and horizontal) are related to employee turnover intentions via three types of affective commitment foci (organization, supervisor, and team). Using second-order confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling techniques with a large cross-sectional dataset ( n = 3,317), our results show that, in line with social cohesion theory, vertical communication (e.g., supportiveness from the organization) is strongly related to affective organizational commitment, whereas horizontal communication (e.g., supportiveness from colleagues) is primarily related to affective team commitment. Additionally, both communication dimensions are related to affective supervisory commitment. Finally, these three foci of affective commitment incrementally explain and differentially mediate the relationship between perceived organizational communication and turnover intention.

Restructuring Educational Systems and Promoting Social Justice for Young People Involved in Drug Trafficking in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa ◽  
Linda Liebenberg ◽  
Dorothy Bottrell ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract. Economic changes in the context of globalization have left adolescents from Latin American contexts with few opportunities to make satisfactory transitions into adulthood. Recent studies indicate that there is a protracted period between the end of schooling and entering into formal working activities. While in this “limbo,” illicit activities, such as drug trafficking may emerge as an alternative for young people to ensure their social participation. This article aims to deepen the understanding of Brazilian youth’s involvement in drug trafficking and its intersection with their schooling, work, and aspirations, connecting with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 16 as proposed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015 .

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