Pacific Women, HIV, and Me: A Positioned Critical Poetic Inquiry

Redman-MacLaren, Michelle

doi:10.1177/1077800420934141

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“…For the last decade, my family and I have also been privileged to live and work in neighboring PNG. It has been in PNG that I have seen the power of story to explicate, extract, and amplify formal research findings, including in my own PhD research with women exploring HIV prevention options (Redman-MacLaren, 2020). My concern with the scientific space, what I have observed happening when we use traditional scientific methods, is that we risk objectifying people.…”

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We Story: Decoloniality in Practice and Theory

Mafile’o

Kokinai

Redman-MacLaren

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Western research and education draw heavily on evidence-based approaches underpinned by positivism. Reliance on this scientific approach informs what is to be counted, measured, and tested—what can be “known.” In our experience, evidence generated using this approach does not always bring the most useful outcomes in our diverse, naturalistic settings. In fact, often the proffered solution can distance and dehumanize the very people expected to be beneficiaries. In this article, we, as researchers and educators from different cultural and professional backgrounds in the “post-colonial” South Pacific, pose an alternative to this Western approach. We engage in a story saturated process akin to collaborative auto-ethnography. We first undertake a process of owning our stories, critically reflecting upon ourselves and how we approach evidence. In the context of values-driven, dialogical relationships, we experiment with intersectionality, interdisciplinarity, and experiences of time and space to critically explore our practice and experience of decoloniality and transformation. Then, through sharing our stories, we critically reflect upon creative, culturally relevant practices. These stories include using poetry in social work education and health research, cake art, and social work storytelling. We acknowledge cultural story forms, collaboration, and performance in a higher education setting. These experiences lead to creating new stories. We share examples of change; we “talk up” to and challenge rationalist, evidence-based approaches in our respective professional spaces. We examine relationality and Indigenous epistemology underpinning our use of story. We present the power of story as a process of transformation toward decoloniality of theory and practice.

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Section: Sharing Our Storiesmentioning

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We Story: Decoloniality in Practice and Theory

Mafile’o

Kokinai

Redman-MacLaren

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Personality Cult or a Mere Matter of Popularity?

Sundahl

2022

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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This paper introduces a theoretical model for distinguishing between mere popularity and personality cults as there currently is an inflated use of the personality cult concept, especially in news media, attaching it to significantly different phenomena. The model is based on Weber’s concept of charismatic authority and consists of three parameters, widespread symbolic elevation, resilience and religious parallels, covering a representational and social practice dimension. Both dimensions are needed to constitute a personality cult. Trump, Putin and Ardern are used as examples of the model’s ability to distinguish between cult and non-cult phenomena. The comparison shows that only Trump and Putin have a cult on both dimensions. Mere popular politicians like Ardern are more comparable to celebrities as these do not have the same authority and power over the followers as leaders with a personality cult – despite potentially showing some cultlike tendencies on the representational dimension. Popular politicians are thus especially characterised by lacking the key social practice aspect of personality cults. As they might still exhibit some cultlike characteristics, the different phenomena are best perceived as being on a continuum ranging from mere admiration or popularity to a personality cult.

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