“Plan your Burn, Burn your Plan”: How Decentralization, Storytelling, and Communification Can Support Participatory Practices

Chen, Katherine K.

doi:10.1111/tsq.12115

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“…'Communification' has been described as connecting an individual to a community involving a process of meaning-making through communication of symbols which can arouse strong attachments [76,77]. The forum exhibited evidence of a specific and unique language, credited as important in building solidarities [78].…”

Section: Comparison With Prior Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections in Expatriates and Traveler Networks: Qualitative Study of Peer Interaction in an Online Forum (Preprint)

Crawford¹,

Maycock²,

Tobin³

et al. 2018

Preprint

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Background: In high income countries such as Australia an increasing proportion of HIV diagnoses have been acquired overseas including amongst expatriates and travelers. Australia's national strategies have highlighted the need for public health interventions for priority populations, including men who travel overseas frequently for work or leisure. One approach is to expand efforts to places or spaces where expatriate communities reside. Accordingly, online settings such as forums used by expatriates and travelers may have potential for prevention of HIV or other STIs with those hard to reach through more traditional interventions.

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Section: Comparison With Prior Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections in Expatriates and Traveler Networks: Qualitative Study of Peer Interaction in an Online Forum (Preprint)

Crawford¹,

Maycock²,

Tobin³

et al. 2018

Preprint

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“…As we see from the studies reported in this section, with practice, many of these groups have learned to be much more proficient in their consensus decision‐making practices than they used to be (Leach ). Some of these volunteer‐based groups have grown far larger than was thought possible decades ago, while finding ways to keep their decisional processes local or regional and their volunteer work relations communal (Chen ). The newer groups have managed to attract a much more diverse membership than they had in the 1970s, and some have learned how to build workplace democracy on the basis of diverse perspectives and experiences (Meyers and Vallas 2016).…”

Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Logic of A Co-Operative Economy and Democracy 2.0: Recovering the Possibilities for Autonomy, Creativity, Solidarity, and Common Purpose

Rothschild

2016

The Sociological Quarterly

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Over the past 30 years, the collectivist-democratic form of organization has presented a growing alternative to the bureaucratic form, and it has proliferated, here and around the world. This form is manifest, for example, within micro-credit groups, workers' co-operatives, nongovernmental organizations, advocacy groups, self-help groups, community and municipal initiatives, social movement organizations, and in many nonprofit groups in general. It is most visible in the civil society sector, but demands for deeper participation are also evident in communities and cities, and the search for more involving and less bureaucratic structures has spread into many for-profit firms as well. Building on research on this form of organization, this article develops a model of the decisional processes utilized in such organizations and contrasts these "Democracy 2.0" standards for decision making from the Democracy 1.0 (representative and formal) standards that previously prevailed. Drawing on a new generation of research on these sorts of organizations, this article and this special section discuss: (a) how consensus decisional processes are being made more efficient; (b) how such organizations are now able to scale to fairly large size while still retaining their local and participatory basis; (c) how such organizations are cultivating a more diverse membership and using such diversity to build more democratic forms of governance; (d) how such organizations are combatting ethnoracial and gender inequalities that prevail in the surrounding society; and (e) how emotions are getting infused into the public conversations within these organizations and communities.

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“…Further, research in festivals remains important as behavior and customs found at festivals can be considered exemplary of ceremony and ritual in modern society (Shrum and Kilburn ). There are relatively few sociological studies of festivals or the Burning Man festival itself (but see Adams ; Chen , , , ; Doherty ; Gotham ; Sherry and Kozinets ), however, Burning Man and associated regional burn festivals may provide insight for scholars interested in lifestyle‐based politics because of their relative longevity, counter‐cultural nature, and shared meaning and ideology (Chen ).…”

Section: Introduction and Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Come Back a Better Person”: Identity Construction and Maintenance at a Regional Burn Festival

Austin

Fitzgerald

2018

Sociological Inquiry

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Burn festivals are participatory, non‐commodified festivals based in self‐expression, creativity, and community and are structured in the model of the original Burning Man festival, established in 1986. This study addresses reflexive identity processes among participants within the context of a regional burn festival. Building on prior research addressing identity processes in counter‐cultural social spheres we conceptualize a regional burn festival as a site for identity construction and maintenance. Specifically, we examine participants’ (1) involvement within this culturally subversive community as it may facilitate reflexive identity processes, (2) discursive and interactive negotiations of authenticity and who/what invokes the “spirit” of Burning Man, (3) conceptions of the relevance that this community and its guiding principles hold to participants’ everyday lives, and (4) politicized sensibilities and forms of lifestyle‐based action. Further, we specify the mechanisms through which identity is formed and elucidate the tensions involved in maintaining consistency between one's beliefs and actions while participating in festivals and living in the day‐to‐day “default” world.

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“Plan your Burn, Burn your Plan”: How Decentralization, Storytelling, and Communification Can Support Participatory Practices

Cited by 29 publications

References 60 publications

Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections in Expatriates and Traveler Networks: Qualitative Study of Peer Interaction in an Online Forum (Preprint)

Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections in Expatriates and Traveler Networks: Qualitative Study of Peer Interaction in an Online Forum (Preprint)

The Logic of A Co-Operative Economy and Democracy 2.0: Recovering the Possibilities for Autonomy, Creativity, Solidarity, and Common Purpose

“I Come Back a Better Person”: Identity Construction and Maintenance at a Regional Burn Festival

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