Engaging “Others” in Civic Engagement through Ethnography of Communication

Townsend, Rebecca M.

doi:10.1080/00909882.2013.782420

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“…Ethnography, as a research approach, recognises the value, beauty and complexity of human experiences and interactions placed in a situational context (Atkinson, 2017; Gullion, 2018). It allows the dynamic capture and analysis of societal discourses, shared practices, discussions and disputes as they develop (Juris and Khasnabish, 2014; Townsend, 2013). Ethnographic methodology also permits the acknowledgement of a multiplicity of viewpoints and the nuances between different perspectives expressed by opinion holders.…”

Section: Ethnographic Setting Methodology and Research Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

Goncharenko

2022

AAAJ

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PurposeThis study aims to analyse how the collective processing of the #MeToo legacy in the form of community discourses and activism conceptualises organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work and enhances the development of new accountability instruments.Design/methodology/approachThe study draws on social movement theory and the intellectual problematics of accountability, together with the empirical insights from two research engagement projects established and facilitated by the author.FindingsThe study reveals multiple dimensions of how post-#MeToo community activism impacted the conceptualisation of organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work. The movement enhanced discourses prompting a new societal sense of accountability for sexual wrongdoings. This in turn facilitated public demands for accountability that pressured organisations to respond. The accountability crisis created an opportunity for community activists to influence understanding of organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work and to propose new accountability instruments advancing harassment reporting technology, as well as an enhancing the behavioural consciousness and self-assessment of individuals.Originality/valueThe study addresses a topic of social importance in analysing how community activism arising from a social movement has transformed accountability demands and thus both advanced the conceptualisation of organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work and established socially desirable practices for it. The study contributes to theory by revealing the emancipatory potential of community activism to influence organisational accountability practices and to propose new instruments at a moment of organisational hesitation and crisis of accountability.

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Section: Ethnographic Setting Methodology and Research Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

Goncharenko

2022

AAAJ

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“…This hybrid discourse-content analysis supports the idea that the analysis of informal documents can complement other research methods and data (Hutchins and Stormer 2013) such as participant-observation, interviews, and public hearing transcripts (or resource management plans) in order to excavate place identity and the processes through which it is formed. This multiperspectival approach mixes quantitative and qualitative data (Feltham-King and Macleod 2016) but is also methodologically informed by an ethnographic sensibility (Altheide 1987, Anderson 2012, Townsend 2013, Scholl et al 2014. The point is to sift through numeric and narrative data to interrogate the privileging of science, its use in economic strategy, and the way it is implicated in social constructions of marine space and peoples.…”

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Branding Wakatobi: marine development and legitimation by science

Tam¹

2019

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Marine protected areas (MPAs) serve as a potential defense against marine degradation, meeting the conflicting priorities and needs of multiple actors. Biodiversity, conservation, and ecotourism constitute a triad of sustainability tropes in tropical MPAs that intersect with and reinterpret local histories of marine interaction, subsistence, and commercial extraction. Science is implicated in this production of resource space, with the state and other actors conscripting science to legitimate particular visions of sustainability. A content and discourse analysis of science-based communication instruments about Wakatobi National Park in Indonesia reveals a process of place branding an MPA as unique biological-economic resource space. Legitimation of science privileges scientific knowledge to promote neoliberal development as economic sustainability. Legitimation by science produces an MPA identity of a paradise of marine biodiversity worthy of conservation as ecological sustainability. And, the construction and absence of local human subjects affects their role as constrained agents in resource space. The result is weak social sustainability.

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“…Thus, cultural discourses may provide inventional resources for developing public participation processes that build from cultural practices. This possibility suggests that cultural knowledge is not simply a matter of minimizing cultural clashes, but instead extends the possibility of drawing on cultural knowledge to design public participation from locally-relevant forms of strategic action (Sprain & Boromisza-Habashi, 2013;Townsend, 2013). Cultural discourses are valuable inputs because designing meaningful public engagement is a deceptively difficult task.…”

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Cultural Discourses of Public Engagement: Insights for Energy System Transformation

Reinig

Sprain

2016

Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

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Our case study explores the public's roles in energy transition by examining public participation processes and their meanings in Boulder's Energy Future. Drawing on Cultural Discourse Analysis (Carbaugh, 2007b) as an analytical framework, we investigate discourses of public participation active in city council meetings as resources for generating insights about how to design more meaningful engagement practices. Our analysis traces meanings attached to attending and speaking at city council meetings, emailing council, outreach and education efforts, task force service, and voting. These practices and meanings provide insights for designing future public participation as well as theorizing public participation in energy governance.

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Engaging “Others” in Civic Engagement through Ethnography of Communication

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

Branding Wakatobi: marine development and legitimation by science

Cultural Discourses of Public Engagement: Insights for Energy System Transformation

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