Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:12:06 -0400
Subject: posts-collage of agreement




back to the basics - accountability and responsibility in relation to "real"
contexts within unequal power structur(ing)s...

Danny
>So - as a communications-oriented person, I'd probably pick up on the
>"Audiences" aspect: not just in terms of who's reading the discourse, but
>who the discourse is *accountable* to. Who are the stakeholders? Whose lives
>are being affected? Who could you explain the work to and get them to agree
>that it made a difference?

>But even though I don't (and can't) "share the same
>risks" as the people I work with on community projects, I think there is a
>sense of "solidarity" and common purpose which can be built through being
>accountable.

Mar

>the theory/practice binary is bogus....the issue is, in 
>my opinion, how this "binary" works on the ground(s)..so that the "field 
>adjustments" become important and integral parts of any theory/practice 
>dialectic.  This requires incredible amounts of work...because the 
>relationship is reflexive...foregrounded by the participants and 
>backgrounded by the context...(or vice versa depending upon the perspective)
>a problem is of course that the number of variables in the field of inquiry 
>becomes immense....and a bloody lot of work....like reflexive ethnography 
>for ever

and thanks Thomas for sharing the URL.

r
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