Rumour and Politics

Coast, David; Fox, Jo

doi:10.1111/hic3.12234

Cited by 29 publications

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“…The professionals prescribe the human needs of others, such as those related to health, and cater to them (Illich, 1978). Professionalism may also smuggle in a hierarchy of knowledge, where the content and process of knowledge production by the marginalized may be branded as 'rumours' to be discredited or omitted (see Coast & Fox, 2015). Gossip, for instance, used to refer to female friendships, but after centuries of purposeful pacification of female resistance, it has been branded as the talk of those who do not possess the ability for rational discourse, nor access to the right kind of knowledge and information (Federici, 2018).…”

Section: Outsider Puppeteermentioning

confidence: 99%

Puppeteering as a metaphor for unpacking power in participatory action research on climate change and health

Meriläinen

Kelman

Peters

et al. 2021

Climate and Development

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The health impacts of climate change are distributed inequitably, with marginalized communities typically facing the direst consequences. However, the concerns of the marginalized remain comparatively invisible in research, policy and practice. Participatory action research (PAR) has the potential to centre these concerns, but due to unequal power relations among research participants, the approaches often fall short of their emancipatory ideals. To unpack how power influences the dynamics of representation in PAR, this paper presents an analytical framework using the metaphor of 'puppeteering'. Puppeteering is a metaphor for how a researcher-activist resonates and catalyses both the voices (ventriloquism) and actions (marionetting) of a marginalized community. Two questions and continuums are central to the framework. First, who and where the puppeteer is (insider and outsider agents). Second, what puppeteering is (action and research; radical and managerial). Examples from climate change and health research provide illustrations and contextualizations throughout. A key complication for applying PAR to address the health impacts of climate change is that for marginalized communities, climate change typically remains a few layers removed from the determinants of health. The community's priorities may be at odds with a research and action agenda framed in terms of climate change and health.

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Section: Outsider Puppeteermentioning

confidence: 99%

Puppeteering as a metaphor for unpacking power in participatory action research on climate change and health

Meriläinen

Kelman

Peters

et al. 2021

Climate and Development

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“…If we stamp out all uncertain rumors, then we will in many cases lose the flag-bearers of beliefs that turn out to be true. Finally, there has historically be a political dimension to rumor, with rumor being a lever of power not just for the political elite but also for the masses [12]. While the approach of preventing all rumors regardless of veracity would certainly have upsides, to stem all rumors would also be to prevent an outlet for informal news, to restrict our ability for collective sensemaking about the world, to undercut expressions of anxiety, and to remove an axis of political power from the disenfranchised.…”

Section: Preventing Rumoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping Rumors in Proportion

Krafft

Spiro

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The study of rumors has garnered wider attention as regulators and researchers turn towards problems of misinformation on social media. One goal has been to discover and implement mechanisms that promote healthy information ecosystems. Classically defined as regarding ambiguous situations, rumors pose the unique difficulty of intrinsic uncertainty around their veracity. Further complicating matters, rumors can serve the public when they do spread valuable true information. To address these challenges, we develop an approach that reifies "rumor proportions" as central to the theory of systems for managing rumors. We use this lens to advocate for systems that, rather than aiming to stifle rumors entirely or aiming to stop only false rumors, aim to prevent rumors from growing out of proportion relative to normative benchmark representations of intrinsic uncertainty.

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“…To fully appreciate the dramatic shift in public opinion regarding the proposed marine park, it is important to understand how historical, structural, and ecological conditions have coalesced in a political ecology of news, rumor, gossip, and scandal in the Cook Islands. Scholars typically distinguish between "news" and "rumor," with the latter referring to information that cannot be verified or is later determined to be false (Coast and Fox 2015;Stewart and Strathern 2004;White 1994). "Gossip" is often distinguished from rumor in terms of topic and scale, both temporal and social, meaning that gossip is usually directed toward the behavior of individuals within a relatively small social group, while rumor can be spread sequentially throughout larger social networks and is concerned with events that are more broadly salient (Coast and Fox 2015;Stewart and Strathern 2004;White 1994).…”

Section: News Rumor Gossip Scandal and Public Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

"What Now, Fishgate?": Scandal, Marae Moana, and Nation Making in the Cook Islands

Durbin¹

2018

The Contemporary Pacific

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In less than two decades, large marine protected areas have become an increasingly important strategy in attempts to sustain ocean life threatened by climate change, overfishing, marine pollution, and other impacts (Toonen and others 2013; Wilhelm and others 2014). Proponents claim that over 80 percent of all protected marine space now exists within large areas that measure in the hundreds of thousands to millions of square kilometers (Toonen and others 2013). Pacific Island countries have been global leaders in this movement to design ocean stewardship at scale and have used these achievements as evidence that Small Island Developing States are better thought of as Large Ocean States (Maclellan 2012). Pacific Island leaders such as President Anote Tong of Kiribati and Prime Minister Henry Puna of the Cook Islands have made political and moral declarations about the global significance of their nations' extensive marine territorial rights and cultural heritage of sustainability. These claims are evocative of Epeli Hau'ofa's well-known critiques of Pacific regional development paradigms and his argument that Pacific Islands are not small or isolated by the ocean but rather connected through it and the expansive practices of its residents (Hau'ofa 1994). However, despite the growing importance of large marine protected areas within and beyond Oceania, almost no scholarship exists about the particular cultural, social, and political processes through which they emerge. 1 In this ethnographic essay, I explore the inception of the Cook Islands Marine Park, a proposal to develop an approximately one-million-squarekilometer mixed-use marine protected area in the southern half of the Cook Islands exclusive economic zone (eez). 2 I begin to paint a clearer picture of what large-scale marine management means and what it can

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Rumour and Politics

Cited by 29 publications

References 35 publications

Puppeteering as a metaphor for unpacking power in participatory action research on climate change and health

Puppeteering as a metaphor for unpacking power in participatory action research on climate change and health

Keeping Rumors in Proportion

"What Now, Fishgate?": Scandal, Marae Moana, and Nation Making in the Cook Islands

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