Debashish Munshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 98789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debashish Munshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debashish |
| FAMILY NAME | Munshi |
| SIGNATURE | MUNSHI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7032-3468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reimagining “Public” Outreach on Environmental Issues: Interrogating the Hegemonic Foundations of Public Engagement/Participation/Relations
Public outreach is now ubiquitous in environmental decision-making processes. However, institutionally-led engagement often retains power in the hands of the elite to decide the agenda and process. This creates a disconnect between the goal of strengthening democratic processes and actual outcomes, perpetuating inequalities between colonizing elites and Indigenous peoples in addressing environmental crises. We argue that public outreach for bette…
He Rau Ringa: A Te Tiriti-led democratic imaginary for ethnic communities in Aotearoa
The idea of democracy as a system of governance "of the people, by the people, for the people" (Lincoln, 1863) has been tainted by the skewed structures of representation that systematically shut out minority and subaltern groups from being part of what is constituted as "the people."Most recently, this has been exacerbated by the rise of populism in different parts of the world where democracy has been hijacked by majoritarian groups claiming to…
Culture and politics in overlapping frames for the future: Multi-dimensional activist organizing and communicating on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand
Responding to climate change requires us to reimagine not only our future on a planet that is rapidly changing, but also how we organize to create political change. The climate movement and those involved in climate activism frame action on climate change in a diverse manner, articulating multiple possibilities for, and means to achieve, a different society. This article explores the ways in which activist groups in Aotearoa New Zealand work with…
Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South
Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South
Cultures in the laboratory: Mapping similarities and differences between Māori and non-Māori in engaging with gene-editing technologies in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Public engagement on rapidly advancing gene-editing technologies requires attention not merely to science and economics, but also to culture. In focusing on the similarities and differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives on new and emerging genetic technologies, this article reports on a national survey in Aotearoa New Zealand among a stratified random sample of an equal number of Māori and non-Māori participants. Identifying …
Narrating the anxious market: In Search of Alternatives During Global Crises
In this virtual roundtable, the editors of the special issue convened a discussion between three leading scholars in the fields of critical communication studies, CCT and marketing, to explore the roles, challenges and tensions that arise from the engagement of consumption and markets at the juncture of global crises. In the eclectic conversation, they critically probe the power imbalances in market narratives between the centre and the margin at…
The cultural politics of climate change adaptation: An analysis of the tourism sector in Aotearoa New Zealand
A huge number of climate change adaptation projects are underway to manage risk and minimise vulnerability for communities and businesses. Yet, adaptation processes are often ineffective because of deeply entrenched structures of power and different value systems leading to conflicting priorities for action. This paper draws on the notion of cultural politics to understand climate change adaptation in the tourism sector of Aotearoa New Zealand, a…
Centering Culture in Public Engagement on Climate Change
Much of the communication efforts on climate change has focused on disseminating scientific projections of climate change to galvanize people into responding to the physical, natural, and biological changes being wrought on the planet by human actions. Yet, this dominant approach of public engagement has been limited because groups of people experience climate change in different ways and have very different approaches to respond to its impacts a…
Public Relations and Sustainable Citizenship: Representing the Unrepresented
"This book examines how public relations might re-imagine itself as an instrument of "sustainable citizenship" by exploring alternative models of representing and building relationships with and among marginalised publics that disrupt the standard discourses of public relations. It argues that public relations needs to situate itself in the larger context of citizenship, the values and ethics that inform it and the attitudes and behaviours that c…
Climate Futures: Re-Imagining Global Climate Justice
Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos. Seeking better explanations of the underlying causes and consequences of climate change, and mapping strategies toward a better future, o…
Postcolonial Approaches
Postcolonial approaches provide an alternative way of looking at mainstream constructs and processes of organization and organizing. Drawing on the work of literary and cultural studies scholars as well as that of novelists, artists, and activists who resisted colonization and imperialism, postcolonial approaches interrogate the overt and covert colonialist tendencies in contemporary organizations. This entry outlines the insights gained from pos…
Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development
Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the g…
Redesigning the architecture of policy-making: Engaging with Māori on nanotechnology in New Zealand
Although there is an extensive literature on public engagement on the use of new and emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, there is little evidence of the participation of marginalised indigenous communities in processes of such engagement. How do particular cultural values and worldviews shape the perceptions of new technologies among such indigenous peoples? This article addresses this question through an analysis of the deliberations o…
Public engagement for environmental sustainability in a technological age: Introduction to a symposium
Expanding critical space: Public intellectuals, public relations, and an “outsider” contribution
Sustainable citizenship as a methodology for engagement: Navigating environmental, economic, and technological rationalities
Sustainable citizenship for a technological world: Negotiating Deliberative Dialectics
Incorporating the notion of sustainability is the biggest challenge for citizenship in a technological era. Existing conceptions of citizenship have not been able to grapple with compounded ecological, economic, cultural, and moral threats facing modern technology-infused societies. Nor has increased public participation, engagement, and dialogue resolved polarized positions on issues such as what constitutes quality of life or what is meant by t…
Denial and Distancing in Discourses of Development: Shadow of the ‘Third World’ in New Zealand
Anxieties about development in New Zealand show up in a deep-rooted fear of the ‘Third World’ in the country. We examine how the term ‘Third World’ is deployed in media discourses in economic, social and environmental contexts and how this deployment results in a ‘discursive distancing’ from anything associated with the ‘Third World’. Such distancing demonstrates a fragile national identity that struggles with the contradictions between the natio…
Communecation: A rhizomatic tale of participatory technology, postcoloniality and professional community
This article explores the authors’ experiences in creating and participating with(in) a virtual conference organized as an experimental virtual network. These experiences demonstrate how physically co-located and virtual conferencing practices acting in tandem provide a greater opportunity for the inclusion of both diverse perspectives and participants in professional communities. Using insights from postcolonial theory, the article examines how …
On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions
Introduction: From the Edges of Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Part 1: Refusing Representations of Development 1. October 17, 1961 Moustafa Bayoumi 2. Ode to Quasheba: Resistance Rituals Among Higgler Women in Jamaica Hume N. Johnson 3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal: Gendered Developments in Bangkok Ara Wilson 4. Dancing on the Edge: Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change Kum-Kum Bh…
Reconfiguring Public Relations: Ecology, Equity and Enterprise
Introduction: The case for Reconfiguration 1. Before and After Public Relations Excellence: Re-Framing Theory and Global Developments 2. Changing the Settings: Requisite Varieties 3. Connecting the Posts 4. Planet as Stakeholder 5: Resituating Identities 6. Theoretical Black Holes 7. Decolonizing Public Relations 8: Science and Edge-Happening Events 9. Promotional Culture 10. Constructing Freedom: 9/11's New World Order 11. Revaluing Intangibles:…
A map of the nanoworld: Sizing up the science, politics, and business of the infinitesimal
Tense Borders: Culture, Identity, and Anxiety in New Zealand's Interweaving Discourses of Immigration and Genetic Modification
Immigration and genetic modification (GM) are two contentious sociocultural issues that have attracted considerable academic, political, and public attention in New Zealand. Although seemingly disparate, the discourses around the two issues share common anxieties about the protection and breaching of a range of boundaries, particularly national, cultural, political, and genetic ones. This article argues that the issues of immigration and GM epito…
Tense Borders: Culture, Identity, and Anxiety in New Zealand's Interweaving Discourses of Immigration and Genetic Modification
Immigration and genetic modification (GM) are two contentious sociocultural issues that have attracted considerable academic, political, and public attention in New Zealand. Although seemingly disparate, the discourses around the two issues share common anxieties about the protection and breaching of a range of boundaries, particularly national, cultural, political, and genetic ones. This article argues that the issues of immigration and GM epito…
A map of the nanoworld: Sizing up the science, politics, and business of the infinitesimal
Sustainable citizenship for a technological world: Negotiating Deliberative Dialectics
Incorporating the notion of sustainability is the biggest challenge for citizenship in a technological era. Existing conceptions of citizenship have not been able to grapple with compounded ecological, economic, cultural, and moral threats facing modern technology-infused societies. Nor has increased public participation, engagement, and dialogue resolved polarized positions on issues such as what constitutes quality of life or what is meant by t…
Postcolonial Approaches
Postcolonial approaches provide an alternative way of looking at mainstream constructs and processes of organization and organizing. Drawing on the work of literary and cultural studies scholars as well as that of novelists, artists, and activists who resisted colonization and imperialism, postcolonial approaches interrogate the overt and covert colonialist tendencies in contemporary organizations. This entry outlines the insights gained from pos…
Communecation: A rhizomatic tale of participatory technology, postcoloniality and professional community
This article explores the authors’ experiences in creating and participating with(in) a virtual conference organized as an experimental virtual network. These experiences demonstrate how physically co-located and virtual conferencing practices acting in tandem provide a greater opportunity for the inclusion of both diverse perspectives and participants in professional communities. Using insights from postcolonial theory, the article examines how …
Narrating the anxious market: In Search of Alternatives During Global Crises
In this virtual roundtable, the editors of the special issue convened a discussion between three leading scholars in the fields of critical communication studies, CCT and marketing, to explore the roles, challenges and tensions that arise from the engagement of consumption and markets at the juncture of global crises. In the eclectic conversation, they critically probe the power imbalances in market narratives between the centre and the margin at…
Sustainable citizenship as a methodology for engagement: Navigating environmental, economic, and technological rationalities
Tense Borders: Culture, Identity, and Anxiety in New Zealand's Interweaving Discourses of Immigration and Genetic Modification
Immigration and genetic modification (GM) are two contentious sociocultural issues that have attracted considerable academic, political, and public attention in New Zealand. Although seemingly disparate, the discourses around the two issues share common anxieties about the protection and breaching of a range of boundaries, particularly national, cultural, political, and genetic ones. This article argues that the issues of immigration and GM epito…
Reconfiguring Public Relations: Ecology, Equity and Enterprise
Introduction: The case for Reconfiguration 1. Before and After Public Relations Excellence: Re-Framing Theory and Global Developments 2. Changing the Settings: Requisite Varieties 3. Connecting the Posts 4. Planet as Stakeholder 5: Resituating Identities 6. Theoretical Black Holes 7. Decolonizing Public Relations 8: Science and Edge-Happening Events 9. Promotional Culture 10. Constructing Freedom: 9/11's New World Order 11. Revaluing Intangibles:…
A map of the nanoworld: Sizing up the science, politics, and business of the infinitesimal
On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions
Introduction: From the Edges of Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Part 1: Refusing Representations of Development 1. October 17, 1961 Moustafa Bayoumi 2. Ode to Quasheba: Resistance Rituals Among Higgler Women in Jamaica Hume N. Johnson 3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal: Gendered Developments in Bangkok Ara Wilson 4. Dancing on the Edge: Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change Kum-Kum Bh…
Communecation: A rhizomatic tale of participatory technology, postcoloniality and professional community
This article explores the authors’ experiences in creating and participating with(in) a virtual conference organized as an experimental virtual network. These experiences demonstrate how physically co-located and virtual conferencing practices acting in tandem provide a greater opportunity for the inclusion of both diverse perspectives and participants in professional communities. Using insights from postcolonial theory, the article examines how …
Denial and Distancing in Discourses of Development: Shadow of the ‘Third World’ in New Zealand
Anxieties about development in New Zealand show up in a deep-rooted fear of the ‘Third World’ in the country. We examine how the term ‘Third World’ is deployed in media discourses in economic, social and environmental contexts and how this deployment results in a ‘discursive distancing’ from anything associated with the ‘Third World’. Such distancing demonstrates a fragile national identity that struggles with the contradictions between the natio…
Sustainable citizenship for a technological world: Negotiating Deliberative Dialectics
Incorporating the notion of sustainability is the biggest challenge for citizenship in a technological era. Existing conceptions of citizenship have not been able to grapple with compounded ecological, economic, cultural, and moral threats facing modern technology-infused societies. Nor has increased public participation, engagement, and dialogue resolved polarized positions on issues such as what constitutes quality of life or what is meant by t…
Expanding critical space: Public intellectuals, public relations, and an “outsider” contribution
Sustainable citizenship as a methodology for engagement: Navigating environmental, economic, and technological rationalities
Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development
Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the g…
Redesigning the architecture of policy-making: Engaging with Māori on nanotechnology in New Zealand
Although there is an extensive literature on public engagement on the use of new and emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, there is little evidence of the participation of marginalised indigenous communities in processes of such engagement. How do particular cultural values and worldviews shape the perceptions of new technologies among such indigenous peoples? This article addresses this question through an analysis of the deliberations o…
Public engagement for environmental sustainability in a technological age: Introduction to a symposium
Postcolonial Approaches
Postcolonial approaches provide an alternative way of looking at mainstream constructs and processes of organization and organizing. Drawing on the work of literary and cultural studies scholars as well as that of novelists, artists, and activists who resisted colonization and imperialism, postcolonial approaches interrogate the overt and covert colonialist tendencies in contemporary organizations. This entry outlines the insights gained from pos…
Climate Futures: Re-Imagining Global Climate Justice
Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos. Seeking better explanations of the underlying causes and consequences of climate change, and mapping strategies toward a better future, o…
Centering Culture in Public Engagement on Climate Change
Much of the communication efforts on climate change has focused on disseminating scientific projections of climate change to galvanize people into responding to the physical, natural, and biological changes being wrought on the planet by human actions. Yet, this dominant approach of public engagement has been limited because groups of people experience climate change in different ways and have very different approaches to respond to its impacts a…
Public Relations and Sustainable Citizenship: Representing the Unrepresented
"This book examines how public relations might re-imagine itself as an instrument of "sustainable citizenship" by exploring alternative models of representing and building relationships with and among marginalised publics that disrupt the standard discourses of public relations. It argues that public relations needs to situate itself in the larger context of citizenship, the values and ethics that inform it and the attitudes and behaviours that c…
The cultural politics of climate change adaptation: An analysis of the tourism sector in Aotearoa New Zealand
A huge number of climate change adaptation projects are underway to manage risk and minimise vulnerability for communities and businesses. Yet, adaptation processes are often ineffective because of deeply entrenched structures of power and different value systems leading to conflicting priorities for action. This paper draws on the notion of cultural politics to understand climate change adaptation in the tourism sector of Aotearoa New Zealand, a…
Cultures in the laboratory: Mapping similarities and differences between Māori and non-Māori in engaging with gene-editing technologies in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Public engagement on rapidly advancing gene-editing technologies requires attention not merely to science and economics, but also to culture. In focusing on the similarities and differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives on new and emerging genetic technologies, this article reports on a national survey in Aotearoa New Zealand among a stratified random sample of an equal number of Māori and non-Māori participants. Identifying …
Narrating the anxious market: In Search of Alternatives During Global Crises
In this virtual roundtable, the editors of the special issue convened a discussion between three leading scholars in the fields of critical communication studies, CCT and marketing, to explore the roles, challenges and tensions that arise from the engagement of consumption and markets at the juncture of global crises. In the eclectic conversation, they critically probe the power imbalances in market narratives between the centre and the margin at…
Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South
Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South
Culture and politics in overlapping frames for the future: Multi-dimensional activist organizing and communicating on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand
Responding to climate change requires us to reimagine not only our future on a planet that is rapidly changing, but also how we organize to create political change. The climate movement and those involved in climate activism frame action on climate change in a diverse manner, articulating multiple possibilities for, and means to achieve, a different society. This article explores the ways in which activist groups in Aotearoa New Zealand work with…
Reimagining “Public” Outreach on Environmental Issues: Interrogating the Hegemonic Foundations of Public Engagement/Participation/Relations
Public outreach is now ubiquitous in environmental decision-making processes. However, institutionally-led engagement often retains power in the hands of the elite to decide the agenda and process. This creates a disconnect between the goal of strengthening democratic processes and actual outcomes, perpetuating inequalities between colonizing elites and Indigenous peoples in addressing environmental crises. We argue that public outreach for bette…
He Rau Ringa: A Te Tiriti-led democratic imaginary for ethnic communities in Aotearoa
The idea of democracy as a system of governance "of the people, by the people, for the people" (Lincoln, 1863) has been tainted by the skewed structures of representation that systematically shut out minority and subaltern groups from being part of what is constituted as "the people."Most recently, this has been exacerbated by the rise of populism in different parts of the world where democracy has been hijacked by majoritarian groups claiming to…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (11 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)