Integrationism: Roy Harris’ artspeak, artistic creativity, and human diversity in the age of globalization

Abstract

This study provides a perspective on how Roy Harris’s work especially integrationism can be used beyond linguistics and communication studies toward fields of studies such as social and public policies and related fields. This study proposes that integrationism should also address issues related to the fields of global studies, sustainable development, and other related fields. It argues that the influence of integrationism on linguistics and communication analysis should be expanded to social and public policies to foster epistemic equity, diversity, and other intercultural values across academic disciplines and professional practices across the world. We address the question: How can integrationism promote artistic creativity, human diversity, and sustainable development for all in the age of globalization? In conclusion, we argue that applying an integrationism approach in social and public policies may promote what I am calling existential justice, existential literacy, and sustainable transformational interculturality. Hence, scholars, students, and professionals in different disciplines and careers may enjoy human, cultural, and epistemic diversity in all its creativity as they acquire competence in existential justice, existential literacy, and sustainable transformational interculturality.