Partitioning the Participation Population Space in Reaching a Mutual Agreement

• In Event: 2134 - The Nature and Import of Participation in Social Interaction

Abstract

Analyzing the video-recordings of monthly meetings held by a group of residents from the town issued a Fukushima-related evacuation order in 2011 that was finally lifted in 2014, I explore the practices by which these residents partition their participation population space to manage the distributions of entitlements to speak of particular things. Drawing on Sacks’ idea of membership categorization devices, an analytic framework is provided in which some aspects of what has been discussed under the rubric of epistemics and deontics are rearranged.

Author

• Aug Nishizaka, Chiba University