Who gets to determine the rules within a community? What would the punishment be if anyone happens to disregard the rules? These are just some of the questions I'll need to tackle with my project on claims-making. But first, let's look at that phrase again: 'claims-making'.
'Claims' suggests that a hierarchy of power has been established to oversee the rest of the community.
In this case the 'making' part symbolizes a set of rules, instructions, norms, etc. that are being established by the center/those in power. Once established, they are carried out to the rest of the community and declared part of everyday life.
Going into this project I think it'll be interesting to see whether there was an established structure with how the responses in the e-mail list were written, who or what actions were ridiculed by members of the community and whether there was one individual with a voice of 'reason' or multiple ones.
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