Places and People: Rhetorical Constructions of “Community” in a Canadian Environmental Risk Assessment

Spoel, Philippa; Hoed, Rebecca Carruthers Den

doi:10.1080/17524032.2013.850108

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“…The problem with this approach, when striving for engagement, is reflected in Spoel and Den Hoed's critique of community engagement when they write "the risk assessment context indicates the continuing presence of authoritative technical-regulatory framings", which relegates "citizen groups to a downstream, reactive response to a phenomenon already problematized, investigated, and mitigated in terms of 'expert' risk constructs" (p.282). 4 Wynne explains that starting with an issue already defined in terms of risk assumes that people are only concerned with "instrumental consequences, and not also crucially about what human purposes are driving science and innovation in the first place" (p.67). 2 The notion of an injury being an 'instrumental consequence' is a simplified and not totally fair assessment of how injury prevention research is carried out, but the critique can be applied to much of what goes on in the field because it is calling out the taken-for-granted beliefs and assumptions of how injury prevention research should be done.…”

Section: Prefigured Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving engagement in injury and violence prevention research

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2019

Inj Prev

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This paper examines the idea of engaged research and the ways it is conceived and applied in injury and violence prevention. To achieve meaningful engagement, I argue that efforts should be directed to relationships with the people who will be impacted by injury prevention interventions rather than to professional practitioners. Additionally, I call for researchers to avoid predefining injury problems prior to engaging with the people it is intended to affect. Prefiguring problems circumscribes the possibilities for engagement with individuals who do not value risk as a determining factor in problem definition and cuts off and devalues other ways of knowing.

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Section: Prefigured Problemsmentioning

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Achieving engagement in injury and violence prevention research

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2019

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“…And by extension, because communities collaboratively construct places, talk about settings can reveal nuances in community conflict and cooperation. Spoel and Den Hoed (2014), for example, found contrasting visions of Northern Ontario (paradise vs. contamination) in the rhetoric of groups competing over proper responses to mining. In this study I assume a similar perspective, presuming that the purposeful use of language can reveal unspoken assumptions about the nature and value of place and indicate how those assumptions empower or impede social action.…”

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confidence: 99%

Speaking of Place

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2016

Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

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Environmental communicators highlight the importance of local voices and concerns in naturalresource planning, but others argue that the provincialism of place-based discourse can undermine the common good. How do participants speak of place in a public process and to what end? To answer these question, the author analyzed transcripts from thirty public discussions on water use. Findings indicated a discrete orientation toward the environment, as people compared one place to another and failed to mention natural or social connections between locales. The author suggests ways to improve public participation in light of the findings.

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“…Therefore, to chart the image clusters of descriptive words and phrases used within and across our participants' accounts is to provide insight into the complex, dynamic ways in which they understand "verification" as an integral aspect of their professional practices and identities (Gulbrandsen, 2010;Spoel & Den Hoed, 2014). As Burke (1957) …”

Section: Data Collection and Methods Of Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%