The power of not understanding: the meeting of conflicting identities

Article Abstract:

Attempts to establish dialogue between conflicting identities usually focus on mutual understanding and the common, while downplaying the elements of the conflict and ignoring the element of otherness, which is especially important for conflicts in which the other is opposite of the self. This article suggests real dialogue requires that the parties first acknowledge this otherness as the distance between them. Thus, the ability to not understand, rather than the ability to understand the other, is posited as crucial to the dialogic process. The author argues that only when the parties relinquish their previous understanding can dialogue address the nucleus of the opposition and conflict, and mobilize relations between the parties within the dialogic framework. Examples are given of attempts at dialogue, one by a group representing the religious and secular Israeli populations and one by a group representing Jews and Arabs in Israel, with their encounters described and analyzed in terms of the possibilities of understanding. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Psychological aspects, Analysis, Communication, Communications, Social conflict, Interpersonal conflict, Culture conflict, Cultural conflict

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Mc-identities: food and the familial citizen

Article Abstract:

The privatization of food and its distribution may interfere with the rights of citizens. As the number of privately-owned food franchises continues to rise, governments disengage themselves from the responsibility of food distribution, forcing the citizen into the privatized sphere. Food franchises such as McDonald's therefore absolve governments from maintaining standards of living for their citizens.

Food industry, Influence, McDonald's Corp., Privatization, Privatization (Business), MCD

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A literary examination of electronic meeting system use in everyday organizational life

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Electronic meeting systems (EMS) technology offers new ways to affect group process and task performance. Meeting dynamics characterized by the "Mad Tea Party" scene from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' by Lewis Carroll, the play 'Twelve Angry Men,' and the biblical account of the Last Supper are discussed in light of EMS.

Innovations, Meetings, Criticism and interpretation, Alice in Wonderland (Novel), Twelve Angry Men (Play), Last Supper, Carroll, Lewis

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