<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><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. Cruikshankâs _Do Glaciers Listen_, but also lots of stuff from Alaska and the Amazon.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alex</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><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><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><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=""><br class=""><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><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/talanoa" class="">https://twitter.com/hashtag/talanoa</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I was of course reminded of Brenneis's classic work on gossip and grog, and wondered if they had any spirits available. <br class=""><br class=""></div>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. <br class=""><br class=""></div>Perhaps colleagues in Pacific Studies might have some ideas?<br class=""><br class=""></div>Many thanks,<br class=""><br class=""></div>Deborah Jones<br class=""></div>
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