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<p>Hi Deborah,</p>
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<p>There is a lot of writing on talanoa, and I am working on a summary myself--I will be glad to send you a draft if you like! But more immediately, a few key resources besides Don Brenneis' valuable work are:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-Andrew Arno (</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">The World of Talk on a Fijian Island</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">) on Indigenous Fijian talanoa;</span><br>
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<p>-Writings by the Halapua brothers, Winston (a theologian) and Sitiveni (a conflict moderator who worked at the East-West Center in Honolulu and held conflict-resolution sessions in many Pacific states in the 1990s/2000s which he called Talanoa sessions)</p>
<p>-Pacific theologians have written extensively about talanoa, including most prominently Jione Havea, who also runs a series of academic workshops called Talanoa Oceania; see <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/nomoa.com/talanoa/" class="OWAAutoLink">https://sites.google.com/a/nomoa.com/talanoa/</a></p>
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<p>As the links you included suggest, "talanoa" is used kind of like "dialogue" in much political English--it has an optimistic sense of shared difference reaching agreement. The main difference between "talanoa" and "dialogue" is that in some contexts "talanoa"
is characterized as unimportant talk--just casual conversation--and it is often promoted as a uniquely Indigenous Oceanian method, a way of talking collaboratively that defines Pacific cultures.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 18, 2017 1:35:13 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linganth] talanoa at the bonn climate change conference</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word">A quick google found this site: <a href="http://talanoa.com.au" class="">http://talanoa.com.au</a>, 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.
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<div class="">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
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<div class="">On Nov 17, 2017, at 4:14 AM, Deborah Jones <<a href="mailto:jdeborah@umich.edu" class="">jdeborah@umich.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">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.<br class="">
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<a href="https://www.cop23.de/en/delegates/events/program-talanoa-space/" class="">https://www.cop23.de/en/delegates/events/program-talanoa-space/</a><br class="">
<a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=421935" class="">http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=421935</a></div>
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I was of course reminded of Brenneis's classic work on gossip and grog, and wondered if they had any spirits available.
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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.
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