Browsing by Author "Dutta M"

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    Academic-community solidarities in land occupation as an Indigenous claim to health: culturally centered solidarity through voice infrastructures
    (Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-05-25) Elers C; Dutta M; Kaur-Gill S
    In this work, we explore the role of land in Indigenous theorizing about health, embodied in a land occupation that resisted a climate-adaptive development project imposed on the community from the top down by the local government. The proposed development project of building a stop bank on the Oroua River sought to alienate Māori from the remnants of the land. Embedded in and emerging from a culture-centered academic-community-activist partnership, an advisory group of Māori community members om the “margins of the margins” came together to participate in the occupation of the land to claim it as the basis for securing their health. This study describes the occupation and the role of our academic-activist intervention in it, theorizing land occupation as the root of decolonizing health emerging from Indigenous struggles for sovereignty (Tino rangatiratanga). The community advisory group members brought together in a culture-centered intervention, collaborated in partnership with the academic team, generated video narratives that resisted and dismantled the communicative inversions produced by the settler colonial state to perpetuate its extractive interests and produced communicative resources that supported the land occupation led by the broader Whānau. This study concludes by arguing that the culture-centered approach offers a meta-theory for decolonizing health communication by building voice infrastructures that support Indigenous land struggles.
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    Experiences with COVID-19 Among Gig Workers
    (2022-03-15) Salter L; Dutta M
    Currently, little is known about the experiences of gig workers in Aotearoa New Zealand, including the nature and quality of their day-to-day work, or how they have negotiated the disruption and risk brought to bear by the COVID-19 pandemic. Largely erased from the conceptual frameworks examining gig work are the voices of workers. This white paper takes a Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) to gig work, seeking to co-create voice infrastructures in partnership with gig workers, attending to the classed, raced, gendered nature of gig work, and the ways in which the structural characteristics of gig work which ingrain precarity are exacerbated by the pandemic. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with participants who are currently or have recently worked as rideshare or food delivery gig workers, this report argues that platformed work - organised and mediated through an online platform or app, is structurally distinct from traditional forms of work.
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    Lessons from COVID-19 for behavioural and communication interventions to enhance vaccine uptake
    (Springer Nature Limited, 2023-11-24) Lewandowsky S; Schmid P; Habersaat KB; Nielsen SM; Seale H; Betsch C; Böhm R; Geiger M; Craig B; Sunstein C; Sah S; MacDonald NE; Dubé E; Fancourt D; Larson HJ; Jackson C; Mazhnaya A; Dutta M; Fountoulakis KN; Kachkachishvili I; Soveri A; Caserotti M; Őri D; de Girolamo G; Rodriguez-Blazquez C; Falcón M; Romay-Barja M; Forjaz MJ; Blomquist SE; Appelqvist E; Temkina A; Lieberoth A; Harvey TS; Holford D; Fasce A; Van Damme P; Danchin M
    The Covid pandemic has yielded new insights into psychological vaccine acceptance factors. This knowledge serves as a basis for behavioral and communication interventions that can increase vaccination readiness for other diseases.
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    The CODE^ SHIFT model: a data justice framework for collective impact and social transformation
    (Oxford University Press, 2023-12-11) Srividya R; Dutta M
    In this article, we present an alternative framework that resists hegemonic social sciences within data-driven communication theorizing through a culture-centered approach (CCA). Building on the CCA in co-creating voice infrastructures at the margins, we argue that data justice requires transforming interpretive data framings, disrupting the hegemonic registers of knowledge production constituted around data, and working with/through data to challenge the structures of capitalism and colonialism that circulate the practices of exploitation and extraction. We build upon community-engaged projects emergent from the CCA in/with/from the Global South to propose the CODE^SHIFT Model, grounded in principles of equity-mindedness, collective impact, purposiveness, and systemic change. It highlights what data justice looks like in various stages of community-led transformation: identifying pressing social problems; bridging cross-sector coalitions and partnerships; organizing for collective impact activities; and sustaining capacity building. We reframe data as pluriversal, embodied, sacred, sovereign, disruptive, solidarity, and impossibility.