This article contributes to the Communication Studies’ literature on cultural dialogue, based on challenges we faced when putting theory into practice in community-based research courses and local social justice struggles. Specifically, we attempt to elaborate theories of cultural dialogue on/in the streets—considering how Cultural Studies, Critical Intercultural Communication, Critical Pedagogy, and Performance Studies work synergistically to illuminate particular aspects of the process of applied cultural dialogue in new ways. As we engaged in discussions on race and immigration in Aurora, Colorado, our experience required us to theorize particular aspects of the process of dialogue in new ways. This article contains voices of multiple authors in conversation and addresses the negotiations of dialogue, identity, and power. Ultimately we address dialogue writ large as process that combines shared experiences in different yet connected sites of education, community conflict, and cultural differences.
AlexanderB. K. (2005). Critically analyzing pedagogical interactions as performance. In AlexanderB. K.AndersonG. L.GallegosB. P. (Eds.), Performance theories in education: Power, pedagogy, and the politics of identity (pp. 62-74). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.
2.
AlexanderB. K.AndersonG. L.GallegosB. P. (Eds.). (2005) Performance theories in education: Power, pedagogy, and the politics of identity. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
3.
AlexanderB. K.WarrenJ. T. (2002). The materiality of bodies: Critical reflections on pedagogy, politics, and positionality. Communication Quarterly, 50, 328-343.
4.
AnzalduaG. (1987). Borderlands: The new Mestiza. San Francisco, CA: Aunte Lute Press.
5.
ArnettR. (2004). A dialogic ethic “between” Buber and Levinas: A responsive ethical “I”. In AndersonR.BaxterL. A.CissnaK. N. (Eds.), Dialogue: Theorizing difference in communication studies (pp. 75-90). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
6.
BolerM. (1999). Feeling power: Emotions and education. New York, NY: Routledge.
7.
BroomeB.CareyC.De La GarzaS. A.MartinJ. N.MorrisR. (2005). “In the thick of things”: A dialogue about the activist turn in intercultural communication. In StarostaW. J.ChenG.-M. (Eds.), Taking stock in intercultural communication: Where to now? International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Vol. 28 (pp. 145-175). Washington, DC: National Communication Association.
8.
BrownJ.IsaacsD.The World Café Community. (2001). The world café: Living knowledge through conversations that matter. Systems Thinker, 12(5), 1-5.
ChawlaD. (2008). Poetic arrivals and departures: Bodying the ethnographic field in verse. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(2), Art. 24. Retrieved from http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802248
11.
ChoS. (2006). On language of possibility: Revisiting critical pedagogy. In RossattoC. A.AllenR. L.PruynM. (Eds.), Reinventing critical pedagogy (pp. 125-141). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
12.
ChubbuckS. M. (2004). Whiteness enacted, Whiteness disrupted: The complexity of personal congruence. American Educational Research Journal, 41, 301-333.
13.
ChubbuckS. M.ZembylasM. (2008). The emotional ambivalence of socially just teaching: A case study of a novice urban schoolteacher. American Educational Research Journal, 45, 274-318.
14.
ConquergoodD. (1985). Performance as a moral act: Ethical dimensions of the ethnography of performance. Literature in Performance, 5, 1-13.
15.
ConquergoodD. (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Towards a critical cultural politics. Communication Monographs, 58, 179-94.
16.
ConquergoodD. (1992). Fabricating culture: The textile art of Hmong refugee women. In FineE. C.SpeerJ. H. (Eds.), Performance, culture and identity (pp. 207-248). Westport, CT: Praeger.
17.
ConquergoodD. (2002). Performance studies: Interventions and radical research. Drama Review, 46, 145-156.
18.
CooksL. (2001). From distance and uncertainty to research and pedagogy in the borderlands: Implications for the future of intercultural communication. Communication Theory, 11, 339-351.
19.
CooksL. (2003). Pedagogy, performance, and positionality: Teaching about whiteness in interracial communication. Communication Education, 52, 245-257.
20.
CooksL.WarrenJ. T. (2011). SomeBodies(’) in school: Introduction. Text and Performance Quarterly, 31, 211-216.
21.
DenzinN. (2003). Performance ethnography: Critical pedagogy and the politics of culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
22.
DenzinN. (2009). Critical pedagogy and democratic life or a radical democratic pedagogy. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 9, 379-397.
23.
DenzinN. K.LincolnY. S.SmithL. T. (2008). The handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies. Los Angeles, CA: SAGE.
24.
FassettD. L.WarrenJ. T. (2007). Critical communication pedagogy. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
FisherW. R. (1984). Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument. Communication Monographs, 51, 1-22.
27.
FreireP.MacedoD. P. (1995). A dialogue: Culture, language, and race. Harvard Educational Review, 65, 377-402.
28.
FriereP. (1973). Education for critical consciousness. New York: Seabury.
29.
FoucaultM. (1980). Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.
30.
GirouxH. A. (1992). Border crossings: Cultural workers and the politics of education. New York, NY: Routledge.
31.
GirouxH. A. (1997). Pedagogy and the politics of hope: Theory, culture, and schooling. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
32.
GoffmanE. (1967). Interaction ritual. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
33.
GrossbergL. (2006) Does cultural studies have futures? Should it? (Or what’s the matter with New York?): Cultural studies, contexts and conjunctures. Cultural Studies, 20(1), 1-32.
34.
Haig-BrownC. (2001). Continuing collaborative knowledge production: Knowing when where why and how. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 22(1), 19-32.
35.
HalualaniR. T.MendozaS. L.DrzewieckaJ. A. (2009). “Critical” junctures in intercultural communication studies: A review. Review of Communication, 9(1), 17-35.
36.
hooksb. (1990). Yearning: Race, gender, and cultural politics. Boston, MA: South End Press.
37.
hooksb. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York, NY: Routledge.
38.
JohnsonJ. R.BhattA. J. (2003). Gendered and racialized identities and alliances in the classroom: Formations in/of resistive space. Communication Education, 52, 230-244.
39.
LeonardoZ. (2008). Reading Whiteness: Antiracist pedagogy against White racial knowledge. In AyersW.QuinnT.StovallD. (Eds.), Handbook of social justice in education (pp. 231-248). New York, NY: Routledge.
MartinJ. N.NakayamaT. K. (2007). Intercultural communication in contexts (4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
42.
MartinJ. N.NakayamaT. K. (2009). Intercultural communication in contexts (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
43.
McLarenP. (1998). Life in schools: An introduction to critical pedagogy in the foundation of education. New York, NY: Longman.
44.
McPhailM. L. (2004). Race and the (im)possibility of dialogue. In AndersonR.BaxterL. A.CissnaK. N. (Eds.), Dialogue: Theorizing difference in communication studies (pp. 209-224). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
45.
MohantyS. P. (1989). Us and them: On the philosophical bases of political criticism. Yale Journal of Criticism, 2(2), 1-33.
46.
MoragaC.AnzalduaG. (1983) This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color. New York, NY: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.
47.
OliverK. (2001). Witnessing: Beyond recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
48.
O’ReilleyM. (1998). Radical presence: Teaching as contemplative practice. New York, NY: Boynton.
49.
PeliasR. J. (1991). Empathy and the ethics of entitlement. Theatre Research International, 16, 142-152.
50.
PollockD. (2006). New directions in performance ethnography. Text & Performance Ethnography, 26, 325-329.
51.
PollockD. (2010a). Doorjambs and the promise of engaged scholarship. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 96, 462-468.
52.
PollockD. (2010b). Performance is a collision course. International Review of Qualitative Research, 3, 203-206.
53.
RoweA. C. (2005). Belonging: Toward a feminist politics of relation. NWSA Journal, 17(2), 15-46.
54.
ShomeR. (2006). Space matters: The politics and practice of space. Communication Theory, 13, 39-56.
55.
ShotterJ.McNameeS. (2004). Dialogue, creativity, & change. In AndersonR.BaxterL. A.CissnaK. N. (Eds.), Dialogue: Theorizing difference in communication studies (pp. 91-104). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
56.
SimpsonJ. S. (2008). “What do they think of us?” The pedagogical practices of cross-cultural communication, misrecognition, and hope. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1, 181-201.
57.
SommervilleM.PerkinsT. (2003). Border work in the contact zone: Thinking indigenous/non-indigenous collaboration spatially. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 24, 253-266.
UrrietaL.Jr. (2005). “Playing the game” versus “selling out”: Chicanas and Chicanos relationship to Whitestream schools. In AlexanderB. K.AndersonG. L.GallegosB. P. (Eds.), Performance theories in education: Power, pedagogy, and the politics of identity (pp. 173-196). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
61.
WarrenJ. T. (2003). Performing purity: Whiteness, pedagogy, and the reconstitution of power. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
62.
WarrenJ. T. (2008). Performing difference: Repetition in context. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1, 290-308.
63.
WillinkK. (2008). “Economy & pedagogy: Laboring to learn in Camden County, North Carolina.” Communication andCritical/Cultural Studies, 5, 64-86.
64.
WoodJ. T. (2004). Forward: Entering into dialogue. In AndersonR.BaxterL. A.CissnaK. N. (Eds.) Dialogue: Theorizing difference in communication studies (pp. xv-xxiii). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
65.
YepG. A. (2007). Pedagogy of the opaque: The subject of whiteness in communication and diversity courses. In CooksL. M.SimpsonJ. S. (Eds.), Whiteness, pedagogy, performance: Dis/placing race (pp. 87-110). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
66.
ZieglerM. F.PaulusT. M.WoodsideM. (2006). This course is helping us all arrive at new viewpoints, isn’t it? Making meaning through dialogue in a blended environment. Journal of Transformative Education, 4, 302-319.
67.
ZsoharA. (2009, November 11). Bridging fences: Local problems, local solutions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 95th Annual Convention, Chicago Hilton & Towers, Chicago, IL.
