Pascale Taplin
PhD Candidate | Casual Sessional Academic
Pascale Taplin is a PhD candidate at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Pascale is a cultural anthropologist with an interest in conspiracy theories, accelerationism, security, and public participation in Australian democracy.
PhD programme
Supervisor(s) and panel members
Topic title
Topic description
Accelerationist conspiracy theories incorporate far-right and far-left rejections of centrist dialogue and call for the destabilisation of existing systems of political, social and economic order; they exist, are energised, and securitised in opposition to the ‘mainstream’. Positioning accelerationist conspiracy theories as understandable and penetrable social products of the citizen-state relationship provides agency to policymakers who seek to foster more productive public dialogue. Effective exercise of that agency in well-targeted interventions rests on understanding what motivates people to engage with conspiracist accelerationism. My PhD entails research that will develop an empirically grounded understanding of why conspiracist narratives resonate with, and how they persuade, Australian audiences.
In this context I apply ethnographic methods, and an analytical framework informed by anthropological and narrative approaches, to garner insights into how conspiracist citizen / state interactions foster accelerationism.
Publications
Taplin, P. Holland, C. (2023) Sovereign Citizen Rhetoric as Narrative Warfare. Journal of Information Warfare. 22.3:36-46 (https://www.jinfowar.com/)
Taplin, P. Holland, C., Billing, L. (2023) The Sovereign Citizen Superconspiracy: Contemporary Issues in Native Title Anthropology. The Australian Journal of Anthropology http://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12480
Taplin, P. (2023) Contextualising Belief in Conspiracy Theories; A case study in Native Title. Dispute Resolution Journal. https://drr.scholasticahq.com/article/55785-contextualizing-belief-in-co...
Lawes, M., Taplin, P., Bellairs, S., Franklin, D. (2013) A trade-off in stand size effects in the reproductive biology of a declining tropical conifer Callitris intratropica. Plant Ecology. Vol 214 (1) pp 169-174.
Whiteside, T., and Taplin, P., (2010) Semi-automated identification and extraction of Callitris intratropica from Eucalypt dominant savanna. GEOBIA 2010: Geographic object-based image analysis, 29 June - 2 July, Gent, Belgium.
Mailing address
Crawford School of Public Policy
ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
J.G. Crawford Building No. 132
Lennox Crossing
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
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