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Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

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Contest And Concordance: Hewillnotdivide.Us And Challenges To Resistant Discourses In Performance Art, Alex Lockwood

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

In my response to this year’s special call (of overcoming divisive discourses), I examine the case of LaBeouf, Rönkkö, and Turner’s HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US art installation, and the discourses that have emerged in response to this piece in the months since its opening. After identifying five discourses that seem to compete over the meanings and intent of the installation, I examine the ways in which these discourses might become more openly engaged in dialogic and transgressive encounters through an application of applied Bataillean abjection.

“This Is Totally Inappropriate”: Louis C.K.’S Use Of Narrative To Build Dialogic Connections, Steve Granelli

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

The performance of stand-up comedy is variously isolating, inviting, linear, and transactional. The stand-up comedian occupies the stage alone, appearing distinctly independent from the audience. Simultaneously, the audience offers their feedback consistently through the presence or absence of laughter. Audience responses to, and judgment of, the stand-up comedian’s performance forms the inexorable bond between these two parties. As such, this (inter)relationship between the comedian and audience is co-created, interdependent, and dynamic. Through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin, and a review of relevant narrative scholarship, this paper explores the use of narrative by comedian Louis C.K. as being a mode of …

The Embodiment And Discourses Of A Taboo: #Brelfie, Sarah Beach

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

#brelfie is an online social media trend that seeks to normalize public breastfeeding through exposure. “Brelfies” are “breastfeeding selfies”—in which a mother uploads an image of herself breastfeeding to social media. It is controversial even within the trend itself, as women disagree on how it potentially pressures women to perform motherhood. Much of Western culture views the female breast as a sexual organ, and thus creates norms about how breasts should be functioned and displayed in public. Yet, many others would argue that breastfeeding is the only legitimate use of the female breast and is therefore permissibly exhibited in public. …

Culturally Responsive Graduate Teaching Instructors: Lessons On Facilitating Classroom Dialogues On Racial, Ethnic, And Cultural Injustices, Nancy Maingi

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Graduate teaching instructors (GTIs) have the unique opportunity of learning to be both scholars and teachers at the same time. This juxtaposition between teacher and student presents distinctive challenges that are seldom captured in existing research. One such challenge is the task to facilitate classroom dialogues on issues of race, ethnicity, and culture. While GTIs are charged with the labor of instructing university classrooms full of diverse student populations, it is common for them to instruct these courses without ever having instructional training on culturally responsive teaching. It is also possible that GTIs are not comfortable discussing issues of race, …

Kneeling But Still Singing: Threshold Identity, Disidentification, And Invitation In U.S. American National Anthem Protest, Michael L. Forst

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Driven by a desire to transcend current divisive political and social discourse, this article analyzes Denasia Lawrence’s 2016 U.S. national anthem performance and Black Lives Matter protest. Lawrence knelt while performing the anthem to protest biased policing practices in the U.S. In engaging Lawrence’s actions and statements about this event through rhetorical criticism, I employ theories of intercultural hybridity (threshold identity and disidentification) and invitational rhetoric to demonstrate the inherent potentials for political activism in her act. I assert that Lawrence’s embodied performance invites viewers to re/consider the multilayered implications of her protest, and to hopefully engage with differences more …

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Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

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Mapping Human Sacrifice Zones Through Informative Speeches, T. Jake Dionne

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Mapping Human Sacrifice Zones through Informative Speeches is a unit-length assignment that offers students the tools necessary to design, compose, delivery a well-crafted informative speech all whilst investigating and uncovering instances of environmental racism on a local and global scale. For this activity, instructors task students with selecting a case study that documents a particular manifestation of what Robert Bullard called “human sacrifice zones,” or locations of low income and minority populations targeted by ecologically hazardous systems of global capitalism. After students deliver their informative speeches, instructors distribute a world map that marks the locations of human sacrifice zones. By …

Time Spent Waiting: Attempting To Perform The "Good Daughter" And Missing Opportunities To Practice Empathy, Meredith L. Clements 9742145

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

What do you do during the time between receiving a diagnosis and undergoing surgery? What do you do when it is a loved one who receives the diagnosis? What happens during the time spent waiting? A diagnosis can reduce what Frank (2013) calls “diagnostic uncertainty” because it gives the health problem a name –a frame we can use to make sense of an illness. Upon receiving a diagnosis, a period of waiting begins, often introducing new forms of uncertainty. At times, the waiting can be just as devastating as the diagnosis itself. In this narrative, I share my experience as …

Misfits In The Front Of The Classroom: Poetic Narratives Of Teaching With A Hidden Disability, Nicole C. Eugene

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Instructors with a hidden disability may choose to talk with their students about their disability, they may choose to pass as normal, or they may deal with their disability in ways that challenge the binary of showing/hiding. Communication about disabilities occurs in contexts that provide a range of possible cultural values that can work to reinforce an individual’s sense of belonging to a group or organization. To examine how graduate students negotiate their disability or illness in the classroom context, I conducted three interviews with graduate instructors addressing how they communicate their disability in the classes they teach. I learned …

(Re)Defining Transnational Identities Through Diaspora Philanthropy In South Asian Indian Non-Profit Organisations, Noorie Baig

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

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This paper identifies “diaspora philanthropy” as an important dimension to maintaining transnational identities among South Asian Indian Americans. Several South Asian initiatives and organisations promote involvement to the motherland (homeland) as individuals negotiate a sense of belonging in a migrant context. It is important to explore the motivations behind this new type of socio-political activism that is fuelled by a sense of responsibility to the motherland. I examine three non-government, South Asian Indian organisation websites that are shaped by globalisation, as a means explore new trends in diaspora philanthropy. A critical intercultural communication framework is used to explore how …

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