Papers by Mary Jane Collier
Culture and Gender: Effects on Assertive Behavior and Communication Competence
Annals of the International Communication Association, 1986
Transforming Communication about Culture: Critical New Directions
Transforming Communication about Culture: Critical New Directions, 2002
Acknowledgements Transforming Communication About Culture: An Introduction - M.J. Collier 1. Japa... more Acknowledgements Transforming Communication About Culture: An Introduction - M.J. Collier 1. Japanese-ness, Whiteness, and the "Other" in Japan's Internationalization - E. Fujimoto 2. From "Orphan of Asia" to "Moses Coming Out of Egypt": A Metaphorical Analysis of the Transformation of Taiwan's Political Identity - H.C. Chang 3. Gender, (Inter)Nationl(alization), and Culture: Implications of the Privatization of Television in India - S. Malhotra & R.D. Crabtree 4. Indian Press's Response to International Satellite Television in India: A Textual Analysis - A. Roy 5. The Language of Honor (izzat) and Shame (sharm): National and Gender Identities in Apna Ghar (Our Home) - K.E. Supriya 6. Queering the Nation: Diasporic Cinema and Media Definitions of Indian Femininity - S. Moorti 7. Targeting the Latino Vote in 2000, Part 1: The Construction of Latinos and Latino Issues - M. Schiffman & F.A. Subervi-Velez 8. Traveling Identities in Joking Performances: Peril and Play in an Arab-American Community - K.D. Hay & S.L. Kline 9. Dialogue on the Edges: Ferment in Communication and Culture - M.J. Collier et al Author Index Subject Index About the Editor About the Contributors
Bridging Divergent Diversity Standpoints & Ideologies
The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review, 2010
An Intercultural Peacebuilding Framework: Extending the Conversation through a Focus on Connections
Communicating Differences, 2016
I am grateful to Sudeshna Roy for the opportunity to expand an earlier conversation about intercu... more I am grateful to Sudeshna Roy for the opportunity to expand an earlier conversation about intercultural communication and peacebuilding that Benjamin Broome and I began some years ago. We offered our first articulation of a framework for intercultural peacebuilding in Broome and Collier (2012). We continue to believe there is great potential for scholars interested in culture and communication to contribute to peacebuilding scholarship and practice. In this chapter, with Ben’s encouragement and support, I build on that conversation. Below, I first conceptualize intercultural communication and describe its centrality in peacebuilding. Next, I introduce a case study and situated examples of my work with an international nongovernmental organization, International Peace Initiatives (IPI). I concentrate on several IPI projects with which I have been involved over the years in order to better illustrate the value of incorporating a framework with multiple dimensions, different contextual frames, and diverse perspectives on culture and communication into peacebuilding work.
Intercultural Alliances: Critical Transformation
... Poststructuralism Debates in Filipino and Filipino American Struggles for Identity 249 S. Lil... more ... Poststructuralism Debates in Filipino and Filipino American Struggles for Identity 249 S. LilyMendoza 11. Intercultural Alliances: A Cyberdialogue Among Scholar-Practitioners 279 Brenda J. Allen Benjamin J. Broome Tricia S. Jones Victoria Chen Mary Jane Collier Author ...
Constituting cultural difference through discourse
Constituting cultural difference through discourse COLLIER J.
ABSTRACT. This paper is an attempt to reconcile the gap between our practical and theoretical kno... more ABSTRACT. This paper is an attempt to reconcile the gap between our practical and theoretical knowledge. The authors begin by briefly describing and critiquing the traditional conceptualiza-tions of democratic disagreement: conflicts of interest and conflicts of ...
Women's Studies in Communication, 2016
This study identifies an emergent framework for situated feminist peacebuilding based on intervie... more This study identifies an emergent framework for situated feminist peacebuilding based on interviews with representatives of communitybased organizations in Kenya. We offer situated examples and firsthand accounts of how these women navigate different challenging spaces, wrestle with the relationships between macro-, meso-, and microcontextual factors, and negotiate agency-and systems-level change within patriarchal and politically changing contexts. We also demonstrate the necessity for international collaborators to apply critical reflexivity throughout all phases of research praxis. Our analysis has important implications for studying feminist peacebuilding situated in Kenya in particular, as well as for analyzing agency, structural and systemic change, patriarchy, the navigation of intersectional cultural differences, and intercultural relations more generally.
Revisiting Whiteness Pedagogy: Examining the Discursive Practices of Diverse Students in an Intercultural Communication and Conflict Course
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
A Call for Critical Reflexivity: Reflections on Research with Nongovernmental and Nonprofit Organizations in Zimbabwe and Kenya
Western Journal of Communication, 2016
A theoretically grounded framework for critical reflexivity relevant to international (and nation... more A theoretically grounded framework for critical reflexivity relevant to international (and national and local) research with nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations is applied in two case studies in Zimbabwe and Kenya. We illustrate four moves in critically reflexive research praxis: 1) acknowledging historical, economic, social, and political contextual structures; 2) negotiating contextually contingent identifications, representations, and positionalities; 3) problematizing power relations, status hierarchies, and agency; and 4) assessing outcomes, differential benefits and consequences. We discuss how these critically reflexive moves are dances with difference, reflect convergent and divergent political itineraries, and implicate de-colonizing knowledge processes and productions.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 2018
In this essay, we write about our collaborative experiences with faculty mentoring/allying relati... more In this essay, we write about our collaborative experiences with faculty mentoring/allying relationships using autoethnography. From two different locations of academic faculty standing, we articulate that faculty mentoring/allying relationships can be sites of critical intercultural communication praxis in which differences informed by historical and existing power relations are productively discussed and acknowledged. However, these are easier to talk about than to practice. Thus, we share our continuing struggle to complicate the notion of faculty mentoring/allying and offer our experiences as complex, fluid, multiple, and contextual productions and constitutions of differences.
Critically reflexive dialogue and praxis: Academic/practitioner reflections throughout a formative evaluation of Circles®USA
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2016
ABSTRACT Reflections about the use of critically reflexive praxis by academic/practitioners are o... more ABSTRACT Reflections about the use of critically reflexive praxis by academic/practitioners are offered based on a case study of a formative evaluation of Circles® USA, a nonprofit organization coordinating initiatives across the U.S. working to move families out of poverty. Critically reflexive praxis is theorized as featuring several themes including acknowledging different levels of context, critical dialogue with collaborators, engaging cultural difference and intersectionalities, problematizing power relations and relationships among researchers and collaborators, and occurring throughout the research project. Examples of critical dialogic reflexivity and navigating common tensions that emerge throughout such community engagement projects are detailed during three phases: planning and design; fieldwork and interviews; and outcomes, applications, and implications.
Communication about cultural identity differences matters for nonprofits
Communication Currents, Apr 1, 2012
Reflections about the use of critically reflexive praxis by academic/
practitioners are offered b... more Reflections about the use of critically reflexive praxis by academic/
practitioners are offered based on a case study of a formative
evaluation of Circles® USA, a nonprofit organization coordinating
initiatives across the U.S. working to move families out of poverty.
Critically reflexive praxis is theorized as featuring several themes
including acknowledging different levels of context, critical
dialogue with collaborators, engaging cultural difference and
intersectionalities, problematizing power relations and relationships
among researchers and collaborators, and occurring throughout the
research project. Examples of critical dialogic reflexivity and
navigating common tensions that emerge throughout such
community engagement projects are detailed during three phases:
planning and design; fieldwork and interviews; and outcomes,
applications, and implications.
Competent communication in intercultural unequal status advisement contexts
Howard Journal of Communications, 1988
Page 1. Competent Communication in Intercultural Unequal Status Advisement Contexts Mary Jane Col... more Page 1. Competent Communication in Intercultural Unequal Status Advisement Contexts Mary Jane Collier Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive Los Angeles, CA 90032 ...
WSCA 2006 Presidential Address: Cultural Positioning, Dialogic Reflexivity, and Transformative/third Spaces
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10570310600992046, Oct 1, 2006
A comparison of conversations among and between domestic culture groups: How intra‐ and intercultural competencies vary
Communication Quarterly, 1988
... that rules for conversing with members of one's own group are different from rules f... more ... that rules for conversing with members of one's own group are different from rules for intercultural conversations--with the general exception of Mexican Americans. (JK). Abstractor: N/A. Reference Count: N/A. Note: N/A. Identifiers: Communication Patterns; Communication Styles ...
Partnering for Anti-Poverty Praxis in Circles ® USA: Applications of Critical Dialogic Reflexivity
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2015
Dialogue on the Edges: Ferment in Communication and Culture
Transforming Communication about Culture: Critical New Directions, 2002
(2002) Collier et al. Transforming Communication About Culture International and Intercultural Co... more (2002) Collier et al. Transforming Communication About Culture International and Intercultural Communication Annual. Read by researchers in: 100% Social Sciences. Transforming Communication About Culture includes thought-provoking contributions about the ways in which ...
Intercultural communication competence: Continuing challenges and critical directions
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2015
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practitioners are offered based on a case study of a formative
evaluation of Circles® USA, a nonprofit organization coordinating
initiatives across the U.S. working to move families out of poverty.
Critically reflexive praxis is theorized as featuring several themes
including acknowledging different levels of context, critical
dialogue with collaborators, engaging cultural difference and
intersectionalities, problematizing power relations and relationships
among researchers and collaborators, and occurring throughout the
research project. Examples of critical dialogic reflexivity and
navigating common tensions that emerge throughout such
community engagement projects are detailed during three phases:
planning and design; fieldwork and interviews; and outcomes,
applications, and implications.