Rights

If you are named or quoted here

You can require us to change or remove it. If you are named on this site, quoted on it, or your work is catalogued in the Library, Glossary or Work databases, and you want an entry amended, restricted or taken down, write to us and we will do it. You do not need to justify the request, and we will not ask you to argue for it.

We aim to respond within ten working days and to act within twenty. If we disagree with a characterisation you dispute, our default is to remove it rather than to defend it.

Please reach us at paddyloughman@gmail.com

Interview quotes

The Synthesis carries quotations from interviews, published without attribution. The interviewees are named as a group on the About page.

That combination — a named roster and unattributed quotes — is a real risk: with a short list of names and a short list of quotes, a reader can narrow down who said what. Some of those remarks are candid about funders who are also our funders. If you were interviewed and want a quotation removed, altered, or attributed differently, tell us.

People credited for ideas from interviews

Five entries on this site credit a named person with a concept that came out of an interview rather than a published source: Suzanne Dhaliwal for the undertow metaphor (Undertow), Dave Snowden for street narratives and for part of Micro Narratives, and Leni Velasco for meso narratives (named on both Street Narratives and Meso Narratives).

We have kept these names rather than anonymising them, because they are credits and because attributing ideas to the people who had them is the standard we are trying to hold elsewhere on this site. But that is our judgement, not their consent, and the two are not the same thing.

If you are one of these five and would rather not be named, say so and we will remove it.

Concepts from living traditions

Parts of the Glossary hold concepts belonging to peoples and traditions we are not part of — among them Sankofa (Akan), Wetiko (Algonquian), Wahkohtowin (Cree) and Kapwa (Filipino).

We hold these as a settler-majority, UK-based group working in English, and we are aware that cataloguing a concept is not the same as understanding it, and that a glossary entry fixes in one form something that lives in practice, relationship and obligation.

Two commitments, which we would rather be held to than praised for:

• Attribution to people, not just fields. Every entry drawn from a living tradition should name the tradition and, where there is one, the scholar or knowledge holder whose articulation we are using. Where we cannot, the entry says so.
• Standing to refuse. If you belong to a tradition represented here and you want an entry changed or removed, that is sufficient reason on its own.

AI-assisted content

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Machine-drafted summaries of other people’s work are paraphrases, and paraphrase can misrepresent. If a summary here mis-states your work, see above – the removal-on-request standing applies. Flagged entries carry a visible note on the page itself – “drafted with AI assistance and reviewed before publishing” – linking back here, so the label doesn’t hide in the metadata.

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