Work organisations face demanding challenges, such as expectations to be creative, innovative, agile, competitive, efficient and adept at using employees’ knowledge while understanding and taking care of employees’ wellbeing. Organisations are actively implementing new ICT systems and environments because they seem to increase the effectiveness of interaction and collaboration, workplace learni...

Speakers who engage in the joint activity of a conversation tend to align their utterances with those of their interlocutors by reusing, reinterpreting, hence playing with co-present linguistic material. One dimension of alignment is the activation of resonance, as recently developed within the model of ‘dialogic syntax’ (Du Bois, 2001). When speakers establish cross-turn parallelisms in the fo...

This research paper addresses secularization from both political and religious perspectives. One of its manifestations in the political sphere is that of globalization that can lead to alienation within society; and in the United Kingdom this is exemplified by Brexit. Within the religious sphere secularization is usually couched in oppositional terms. This paper reclaims the original use ...

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 429 I. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CAPACITY BUILDING ...................................................... 433 II. A DIALOGIC APPROACH TO CAPACITY BUILDING .............................................. 439 III. BUILDING THE RULE OF LAW ....................................

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...