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Item Open Access Between Friendship and Justice: On Lincoln's Political Thought(Informa UK Limited, 2017) Field, PeterReading Aristotle and applying his notion of philia, or political friendship, across 26 centuries sheds significant light into Abraham Lincoln’s career. It is precisely in Lincoln’s embodiment of the Aristotelian notion of friendship that we come to understand his unique greatness. Perhaps he alone of all Americans proved capable of such extraordinary feats as leading the Republican party to victory in 1860, holding the Union together through the secession crisis and four long years of bloody civil war, ending slavery without white backlash, and offering reconciliation with the incredible magnanimity expressed in the ringing phrases of the Second Inaugural address. The basis of Lincoln’s preternatural political genius proved to be his ability to comprehend all sides, a comprehension that can only come from a profound belief in the importance of friendship. Americans, Lincoln argued throughout a terrible war as he had his entire life, were not enemies but friends who shared a commitment to nature and nature’s law as expressed in the Declaration.Item Open Access When the Photojournalist Returns: Exploring Reflexive Moments in Photojournalism(Informa UK Limited, 2015) Matheson, DonaldThis paper concerns the contemporary status of the documentary or news photograph of suffering. Using the paradigmatic case of the return of photojournalists to the scenes of compelling images they have made, it suggests a contemporary need to reconnect them with the lives and voices of those photographed. The paper draws upon theories of photojournalism that emphasize the need to take their connection to the real seriously and describe the civic space they open up between photographers, the photographed and the public. When photojournalists return, the paper suggests, they are confronted with these contemporary expectations of the photograph, expressed as both political and ethical demands. It proposes also that the reflexivity of the return can allow photojournalists to negotiate some of the ethical problems that arise when making photographs of others’ misfortune. In particular, it can transform the return into an act of caring. These points are used to explore ways in which the discourse and further images that surround a powerful image can reconnect audiences with those photographed.Item Open Access Between tides: examining China discourses in Pacific Island news media(2024) Doidge, Mathew; Kelly SThe Indo-Pacific context has gained increasing geopolitical focus over the last decade, and particularly over the last five years as powers such as the United States, Australia, the European Union (and three of its Member States – France, Germany and the Netherlands) have elaborated dedicated Indo-Pacific strategies. Underlying these has been a concern with the actions of China, defined through contested geopolitical discourses on its role as an actor in the region. While this contestation has been given some attention in academic literature, notably absent has been a consideration of the impact on regional states caught between these discursive tides, and particularly of the Pacific Island states (unsurprising, given the focus on the northern maritime arc that predominates in Indo-Pacific research). This article fills this gap through analysis of eight news media outlets (seven local and one regional) covering October–November 2019 and 2022, identifying the main discourses on China in Pacific media and their source, and examining the impact of these on local Pacific reporting. It finds that, notwithstanding the preponderance of ‘Western’ discourses on China’s role in Pacific media through republication of external media reporting, this does not translate into influence over Pacific reporting. Instead, it is Chinese discourses on its role that have the greatest resonance.Item Open Access The Philippines in 2023: Politics, Economy, and Foreign Affairs under Marcos Jr.(University of California Press, 2024) Tan, AlexIn 2023, the Philippines, led by Marcos Jr., confronted a pivotal period marked by intricate diplomatic maneuvers, economic recalibrations, governance reforms, and persistent human rights concerns. The return of the Marcos political dynasty is a significant change in the political landscape, while economic challenges persist despite mixed reports on growth. With a commitment to an independent foreign policy, the Philippines faces a delicate balancing act between the United States and China in a world characterized by shifting power dynamics and strategic complexities.Item Open Access Forum: The Foundations and Future of NPVO Communication Scholarship(SAGE Publications, 2021) Atouba Y; Dempsey SE; Koschmann MA; Kramer MW; McAllum, Kirstie; McNamee LG; Peterson BLItem Open Access Managing imposter syndrome among the “Trophy Kids”: creating teaching practices that develop independence in millennial students(Informa UK Limited, 2016) McAllum KItem Open Access Reflections on a communication journey into professionalism and organizing(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2024) McAllum, Kirstie; Barbour , Joshua B.; Fox , Stephanie; Matte , FrédérikMuch research in the field of communication studies has evidenced a 'performative turn' in how it views professionalism, professionals, and the professions. This special issue, Opening up the meanings of 'the professional', professional organizations, and professionalism in communication studies, documents this process and lays out a research agenda in and from communication studies that can inform scholarship on professionalism and organizing. In addition to mapping out and contextualizing the multiple, contested meanings of professionalism, particularly in novel or 'non-standard' contexts, it shows how workers enact, negotiate, reify, and resist the meanings of professionalism in both aspirational and exclusionary ways. When we shift the focus from professional experts (and the institutional apparatus that protects their status, autonomy, and authority) to expertise, as Ashcraft suggests in her contribution to this special issue, scholarly analysis needs to account for an entire network of actors, ideas, instruments, and forms of organizing that allow for successful-or failed-performances of expertise and understand that those performances rest on economies of difference. Economies of difference are distinctions among the sorts of work, workers, and working that wield political power in that they implicate social structures and dictate how specialized expertise is and can be deployed and recognized. Economies of difference create and benefit from inequities. The articles in this special issue offer empirical and conceptual windows into the contested and messy performance of professionalism, how it serves as a resource for some and a constraint for others, and how its contemporary meaning is potentially disrupted.Item Open Access Refugee resettlement volunteers as (inter)cultural mediators?(Informa UK Limited, 2020) McAllum, KirstieItem Open Access Subverting the Marxist paradigm: Vaccination discourse in New Zealand's mainstream and alternative online media(Informa UK Limited, 2012) Kenix, Linda JeanNew Zealand ranks 33rd out of 35 developed countries for rate of immunizations. The low rate of immunizations in New Zealand could be attributed to many factors, however, the information in available and accessible media must also be considered as a potential barrier to vaccination. This study examines the mediated discourse in a sample of New Zealand’s alternative and mainstream online media within the framework of Marxist ideology. The praxis and theory of Marxism within the production of alternative media, much like vaccination campaigns, depends upon egalitarian, community-minded ideals. One might expect to find a Marxist ideology throughout pro-vaccination discourse and within alternative media, which have been found to depend upon these same egalitarian ideologies. While Marxist thought depends heavily on communal belief systems, it also serves as a framework to denounce corporate power. This research will examine whether the organizational norms and practices of an institution might be circumvented when the possibility of denouncing a core oppositional ideology, such as anti-corporatism, arises. In doing so, this research will explore the occasional conflicting nexus between the ideology of an issue and the ideology of a medium.Item Open Access A converging image? Commercialism and the visual identity of alternative and mainstream news websites(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2013) Kenix, Linda JeanVisual imagery, while largely overlooked in mass communication research, is central to how organizations represent themselves, make meaning, create identities, and communicate with the rest of the world. This research explores visual differences between alternative and mainstream news websites along the conceptual categorization of deviance. More deviant groups have historically represented themselves through alternative media with themes of confrontation and challenge, often through violent or sexualized imagery. However, online communication is now largely commercialized and commodified in order to professionalize a consumerist aesthetic that can attract mass audiences and return a profit. This research explores the visual communication of both alternative and mainstream media in an online environment where the whole world is watching. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.Item Open Access On Canaries, Icebergs and the public sphere. The pragmatic compromise of religious pluralism.(2023) Grimshaw, M.The return of religion in western society has resulted in the expression of what is often termed post secular socio-politics, closely linked to increasingly pluralistic societies that result from globalization. While the public sphere has, in the West, tended to follow a ‘WASP’- derived model of post-Westphalian secular public sphere and the privatization of religion, this model is increasingly under critique and complaint. How might pluralism and the expression of religion be re-thought and re-encountered? This paper, engaging with the work of Ulrich Beck (2004) on “realistic cosmopolitanism” argues for a more localised, urbanised approach and understanding. The public sphere is actually a series of everyday pragmatic engagements and experiences that require a more nuanced evaluation. Critiquing the utopian agendas of much cosmopolitan theory, this paper asks two questions: Firstly, what can the return of religion tell us about late modern society? Secondly, what changes may be necessary to re-engage (with) pluralistic public spheres – and societies? Arising in response to the increasing discussion and debate as how societies can seek to engage with growing religious pluralism, using the central metaphors of ‘the iceberg’ and ‘the canary’ as hermeneutic tools, undertaken within a wider Taubesean hermeneutical reading, it argues for a rethought, pragmatic cosmopolitics that is intermestic; that is, both international and domestic in focus and response.Item Open Access Meanings of Organizational Volunteering: Diverse Volunteer Pathways(SAGE Publications, 2014) McAllum, KirstieDespite the practical need to cultivate individuals' engagement with nonprofit organizations and theoretical interest in volunteerism across multiple disciplines and perspectives, the conceptual boundaries of volunteering remain vague. Although definitions from the literature emphasize free will, lack of financial gain, and benefit to others, they do not consider how volunteers might integrate, negotiate, or reject these meanings when the demands of freedom and contribution collide. This study adopts a hybrid phenomenological perspective to explore what organizational volunteering meant to volunteers themselves. The findings show that the meanings that participants gave to volunteering were both agentic and relational and that volunteers negotiated agency and relationality in a dynamic way. The article discusses the theoretical implications for how researchers define organizational volunteering and the meaning of work in nonstandard work environments, as well as the practical implications for volunteer management. © The Author(s) 2013.Item Open Access Language (in)competency, communication strategies, and the development of an international academic teacher identity: becoming an audible minority(Informa UK Limited, 2017) McAllum KDespite universities’ enthusiasm for internationalization, international academic mobility requires considerable institutional and cultural adjustment in terms of teaching and supervision styles, research expectations, and departmental relationships. Although language competency underpins these practices, research on international academics has neglected the impact of language proficiency on professional identity. This article uses autoethnography to document conversations about language ability during my first two years as an academic in a French-language university. My responses to language-related comments evolved over time, reflecting how I positioned myself as a linguistic–or audible–minority, vis-à-vis the linguistic majority. Using cultural phenomenology, the findings highlight the interactional, unstable nature of international academic identities and the importance of positive collective support for international academics who shift from majority to minority linguistic status.Item Open Access Team Care for the Care Team: A Scoping Review of the Relational Dimensions of Collaboration in Healthcare Contexts(Informa UK Limited, 2024) Fox S; McAllum, Kirstie; Ginoux LExamining team care for the care team, this scoping literature review highlights the relational and compassionate dimensions of collaboration and teamwork that can alleviate healthcare worker suffering and promote well-being in challenging contexts of care. Its goal is to provide greater conceptual clarity about team care and examine the contextual dimensions regarding the needs and facilitators of team care. Analysis of the 48 retained texts identified three broad types of communicative practice that constitute team care: sharing; supporting; and leading with compassion. The environmental conditions facilitating team care included a caring team culture and specific and accessible organizational supports. These results are crystallized into a conceptual model of team care that situates team care within a system of team and organizational needs and anticipated outcomes. Gaps in the literature are noted and avenues for future research are suggested.Item Open Access “I Only Tell Them the Good Parts:” How Relational Others Influence Paid Careworkers’ Descriptions of Their Work as Meaningful(SAGE Publications, 2024) McAllum, Kirstie; Elvira MM; Villamor Martin MThe occupational images associated with paid care work for older adults range from a job carried out by earthly angels to a form of stigmatized dirty work: This ambiguity makes maintaining a committed long-term care workforce challenging. Encouraging careworkers to view their work as meaningful has been touted as a potential solution. Moving beyond a purely subjective approach to meaningfulness, we explore how careworkers construe their work as meaningful and how relational others influence careworkers’ ability to speak about meaningfulness. Others’ messages matter, although their importance depends on relational others’ knowledge of care tasks and involvement in the care relationship. By documenting how others’ accounts both enhance and compromise careworkers’ ability to speak about meaningfulness and moments of meaninglessness, our study identifies sources of meaningfulness for careworkers, a socially essential workforce under-examined by meaningful work research, and extends meaningful work research in contexts where relationships are central to occupational identity.Item Open Access Māori elders’ perspectives of end-of-life family care: whānau carers as knowledge holders, weavers, and navigators(SAGE Publications, 2022) Simpson ML; McAllum, Kirstie; Oetzel J; Berryman K; Reddy RBackground: There is growing interest in palliative care within Indigenous communities, and within Aotearoa New Zealand, of the significant role that Māori (Indigenous people) families play in caring for older relatives. This study explored the centrality of culture in how Māori extended families (whānau) in Aotearoa New Zealand interpret and enact family-based care roles within the Māori world (Te Ao Māori). Methods: Applying Māori-centered and community-based participatory research principles, we examined 17 interviews with older Māori who shared experiences of palliative care for a partner or family member. The thematic analysis used a cultural-discursive framework incorporating Māori principles of wellbeing and values expressed within the care relationship. Results: The findings centered on three whānau roles in palliative care: whānau as (1) Holders and protectors of Māori knowledge; (2) Weavers of spiritual connection; and (3) Navigators in different worlds. Conclusion: The study problematizes the notion of a single ‘primary caregiver’, privileges whānau as an inter-woven relational, dynamic care network, and encourages health professionals to recognize the cultural embeddedness of dominant approaches to palliative care.Item Open Access A comparative tale of two methods: how thematic and narrative analyses author the data story differently(Informa UK Limited, 2019) McAllum K, Kirstie; Fox S; Simpson M; Unson CItem Open Access Communicating compassion in organizations: a conceptual review(Frontiers Media SA, 2023) McAllum, Kirstie; Fox S; Ford JL; Roeder ACThis article explores the theoretical terrain surrounding compassion in organizational settings to clarify how conceptually (dis)similar concepts like social support, team care, and organizational compassion manifest different agentic perspectives on compassion. Toward this end, we articulate a working definition of compassion and suggest that a communicative frame focused on intersubjective sense-making and interpretation can deepen our understanding of who is responsible for care and compassion within organizations. Existing research on this subject considers who or what provides compassion—individuals, teams, policies—and how compassion can assuage suffering and promote individual and organizational flourishing. Extending this work, we document core dimensions of each form of compassion for greater conceptual clarity and precision, proposing a metaphor for each. Finally, we reflect on the implications of each type of compassion for resilience and the ways current notions of compassion typify the rationality/emotionality duality and gendered nature of emotion work in organizations.Item Open Access The positive impact of othering in voluntourism: The role of the relational other in becoming another self(Informa UK Limited, 2017) McAllum, Kirstie; Zahra AItem Open Access Committing to refugee resettlement volunteering: Attaching, detaching and displacing organizational ties(SAGE Publications, 2018) McAllum, KirstieAs members of local host communities, volunteers play an important role in effective long-term refugee resettlement. This study investigated the nature of volunteer commitment by organizational volunteers who were assigned a front-line role in organizing material assistance and providing information about cultural practices for newly arrived refugees. Using interview data from volunteers, organizational representatives, and organizational recruitment and training documents, the study found that volunteers’ commitment was structured by the presence and absence of volunteer coordinators, the organization’s clients and volunteers’ significant others. While insufficient ties to the organization or strong, competing ties from significant others led volunteers to detach themselves from the organization, overly strong affective ties with refugees displaced organizational ties, leading to volunteers’ organizational exit. This study problematizes an individual-centric, psychological notion of commitment; instead, it situates commitment as a collective communicative process whereby relevant stakeholders negotiate the relationships that tie them together. It thus expands the range of voices present in decisions about commitment and provides new data on how organizational and relational others impact sustainable volunteer management.