Afterword:In Search of a Polyphony of Voices
Abstract
Kirsten J.Broadfoot Colorado State University DebashishMunshi University of Waikato irst of all, we would like to sincerely thank Dennis Mumby and Cynthia FStohl for their most gracious and constructive response to our essay. In the true spirit of a dialogue, they have engaged with the points we raise about the current state of organizational communication studies and have created the space for a wider, more open, and more inclusive conversation on the subject. We could not have chosen better partners in our endeavor to extend this conversation across continents with our many colleagues whom we so rarely see or from whom we so rarely hear. Before we collaboratively reach out to a wider community of global scholars working in varied contexts of organizing and communicating, however, we would like to clarify some points. Our first clarification relates to the overall purpose of our original essay and indeed this forum. As artic- ulated by Mumby and Stohl, we desire polyvocality and hybridity. In fact, we not only desire it but insist on it. This insistence stems from our inter- actions with students in our diverse classrooms and also from bearing wit- ness at recent conferences to some heated exchanges