Janks, Hilary2016-06-212016-06-212005-03Janks, H. (2005). Deconstruction and reconstruction: Diversity as a productive resource. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 26(1), 31-43. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/015963005000400780159-6306 (Print)1469-3739 (Online)http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20515This article uses critical discourse to show that a series of advertisements by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are premised on a discourse of sameness that constructs difference negatively. This article moves from deconstructing these advertisements to possibilities for reconstruction that show difference as a positive and productive resource.enCritical discourseDeconstructing advertisementsArticle