[Linganth] talanoa at the bonn climate change conference

[Alexander King]

A quick google found this site: http://talanoa.com.au <http://talanoa.com.au/>, where all the stories and gossip are about climate change. The site is consciously trans-pacific and makes me think that that the use in Bonn comes out of South Pacific political discourse aimed at Anglophone audiences. The site's owner/editor seems to have been trained in marketing but shifted to political activism.

Such a use certainly parallels other indigenous political discourses that foreground traditional modes of storytelling as political testimony to a Euro(American) political elite, e.g. Cruikshank’s _Do Glaciers Listen_, but also lots of stuff from Alaska and the Amazon.

Alex

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> On Nov 17, 2017, at 4:14 AM, Deborah Jones <jdeborah at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> My partner who works in renewable energy just asked me if I knew what talanoa was, and how it was being used at the Bonn Climate Change Conference.
> 
> https://www.cop23.de/en/delegates/events/program-talanoa-space/ <https://www.cop23.de/en/delegates/events/program-talanoa-space/>
> http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=421935 <http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=421935>
> https://twitter.com/hashtag/talanoa <https://twitter.com/hashtag/talanoa>
> 
> I was of course reminded of Brenneis's classic work on gossip and grog, and wondered if they had any spirits available. 
> 
> In all seriousness, however, has anyone written about this recent adoption/promotion of talanoa (or something vaguely talanoa-like) in international and/or diplomatic settings? I'd love to read an article on such a topic. 
> 
> Perhaps colleagues in Pacific Studies might have some ideas?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Deborah Jones
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