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This study develops a communicative model of collaboration failure to address one of the key challenges of collaboration theory and practice: the discrepancy between the promise of collaboration and the reality of persistent failure. A theoretical framework is developed based on notions of dialogue, discourse, and coorientation, which informs three key aspects of collaboration: knowledge production, shared identity, and collective agency. This theoretical framework is then combined with analytic themes from an empirical case study of a failed civil society collaboration. Themes of communication practice that constitute collaborative failure are detailed, while also contrasting these with alternative practices that can enable more successful collaboration. Further implications are discussed, specifically in terms of rethinking common collaboration dualisms of structure/process and talk/action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article represents an edited conversation between two practitioners exploring both an ecological-organic approach to community development practice, and the idea of practice as a ‘responsive dance’. The practice ideas have emerged from a dialogical inquiry between the two authors conducted during 2011/2012, augmented by consideration of various literatures. The dialogue involved comparison and contrasting of two development practice frameworks: one the ‘developmental approach’ from a community of practice within South Africa, and another, the ‘dialogical approach’ from a community of practice within Australia. This exchange included conversations and processes of co-writing. The exchange between the two frameworks led to a cross-fertilisation, which we argue has provided exciting new signposts for community development practice. These new signposts are considered in-depth within the promissory reflections, but in a nutshell focus on what we have called organic or ecological community development practice – a way of conceptualizing practice as embodied responsive engagement within a holistic understanding of the social world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the concept of the explicit performative utterances. Negation on the nature of the utterances as statements; Outline of grammatical theory; Consequences of treating explicit performative utterances as statements.