Local knowledge in democratic policy making

Nugroho, Kharisma; Carden, Fred; Antlöv, Hans

doi:10.51952/9781447348085.ch003

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“…Local knowledge reflects the community members' worldviews and lived experiences referring to knowledge accumulated over many generations. Research studies from other LMIC, such as Indonesia [10], shore up the benefits of including local knowledge, through community participation and co-creation, in policy design and implementation processes. Some benefits are a decrease in the gap among those designing, implementing, and benefitting from policies, an increase in the fitness of policies, and opportunities for community members to provide more immediate feedback.…”

Section: Levels Of Prevention Strategies and Activitiesmentioning

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Developing a suicide prevention action plan in Kisumu County, Kenya

Ouma,

Frey,

Ganda

et al. 2023

Public Health Challenges

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Suicide prevention is a complex and context‐dependent challenge. About 75% of deaths by suicide occur in low‐ and middle‐income countries; yet, most current suicide prevention strategies build upon data from high‐income countries (HIC). The Kisumu County Government (KCG) in Kenya recognized the need for a suicide prevention action plan. In the absence of a Kenyan national suicide strategy, it also did not solely depend on recommendations from HIC. The KCG therefore convened a multidisciplinary workgroup with stakeholders from various sectors that led the development of the Kisumu County Suicide Prevention Action Plan (KCSPAP). The team utilized a mixed‐method approach (literature review, a desk review of mental health indicators and death certificates, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews) identifying the following: (a) magnitude and variations of suicide cases (higher number of suicide completions compared to attempts; the leading method was organophosphate poisoning though the suicide method often was not specified); (b) protective and risk factors (male gender, being between 19 and 45 years of age, and being married); (c) community perceptions of suicide (taboo topic; associated with negative spirits; community members were divided on suicide decriminalization); (d) potential solutions (need for data collection, awareness creation; scale‐up of traditional and nontraditional mental health approaches). Given the importance of a public health perspective on suicide prevention, the data in the KCSPAP are organized in a public health prevention framework that builds on a data collection framework. The KCSPAP was handed over to the KCG in mid‐2020; different recommendations have been implemented since. The KCSPAP is an example of policymaking based on local knowledge. This homegrown policymaking approach has multiple benefits and can be used by stakeholders locally and in other countries.

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Section: Levels Of Prevention Strategies and Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a suicide prevention action plan in Kisumu County, Kenya

Ouma,

Frey,

Ganda

et al. 2023

Public Health Challenges

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“…By use of cultural and social resources, we are referring to how values and cultural memberships are mobilized in the production of people’s views within a situated context, as well as to how they may be invoked for constructing and negotiating the production of truth claims about what is real and/or in whom to trust. The concept of enacting or performing ( Epstein, 1996 ) publics has been used in studies aiming to understand the potential role of local or contextualized experiential knowledge in policy-making (see Goven and Morris, 2012 ; Nugroho et al, 2018 ), in case studies involving controversies about new science and technologies ( Irwin and Michael, 2003 ; Michael and Brown, 2005 ), or about politicized issues such as biometrics ( Amelung and Machado, 2019 ; Martin and Donovan, 2015 ). These studies show how laypeople relate to science by enacting claims through their own experiences and knowledge in order to constitute alternative stances in relation to institutionally sanctioned, expert scientific narratives.…”

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Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal

Machado,

de Freitas,

Fiske

et al. 2024

Public Underst Sci

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Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performativity, we mean the ways by which participants understand themselves as particular sorts of publics through identification with, and differentiation from, various other actors in matters that are perceived as controversies surrounding science: COVID-19 vaccination, media communication of science, and the interactions between governments and scientists. The criteria used to construct the similarities and differences among publics were heterogeneous and fluid, showing how epistemic beliefs about the nature of, and trust in, scientific knowledge are intermingled with social and cultural memberships embedded in specific contexts and across disparate places.

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“…In its development, indigenous knowledge is included in various scientific disciplines, especially psychology, anthropology, and sociology [9,10]. Studies on indigenous knowledge are related to local community knowledge about plants [11], natural disaster mitigation [12], environmental justice [13], socio-cultural [14], politics, religion [15,16], education [17], and psychology [18]. All of them, if the keyword is taken from indigenous knowledge, then it is related to cognitive knowledge, knowledge of behavior, and knowledge of unique artifacts/products/creations in a particular society.…”

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Women and Javanese Local Psychology: Evidence Through Literature with Indigenous Studies Context

Ahmadi¹,

Yulianto²,

Subekti³

et al. 2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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The current study aims to explore women and treatment in Indonesian literature through the perspective of indigenous studies. This research focuses on two Indonesian novels, namely Olenka by Budi Darma and Para Priyayi by Umar Kayam. The theory used refers to the psychology of literature associated with the context of gender-based indigenous studies in the perspective of language literature, psychology, and socio-culture. The qualitative-interpretive method was used in this study to corroborate verbal data. Four stages were used in data collection techniques: observation, interviews, recording, and photo shooting. The study results showed that local Javanese women in Indonesian literature appear in the form of Javanese women's psychology, which is seen in the depth of soul, tough soul, and simplicity. The local psychology of Javanese women is part of the Javanese indigenous people. In addition, universally, the local psychology of Javanese women in literature has similarities with local psychology in certain societies as a form of the literary archetype.

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Local knowledge in democratic policy making

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Developing a suicide prevention action plan in Kisumu County, Kenya

Developing a suicide prevention action plan in Kisumu County, Kenya

Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal

Women and Javanese Local Psychology: Evidence Through Literature with Indigenous Studies Context

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