[Xmca-l] Re: Community Psychology

[mike cole]

I forgot about Inglod, Larry. Of course!
Can you pick out a parallel passage from his work.
The rope metaphor also has an interesting affinity to the use of the
pathways metaphor to describe ontogenetic development.

mike

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Lplarry <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike,
> This book seems to be focused specifically on the theme of the discussion
> as it is unfolding.
> Ingold's metaphor of rope as particular lines of carrying on together I
> read as questioning another metaphor of *totality* which carries on with
> notions of parts and wholes that articulate together or joint together into
> a context of totality.
> The existence of these parts that exist as substance which joint together
> coincidently.
>
> The rope metaphor is challenging this nice packaged *totality* metaphor
> where the parts fit together or are articulated with nothing left out.
> Your question asking what exists as excess beyond the boundary marking
> (naming) of activity setting may be reflected upon as parts or lines of
> inquiry.
>
> Parts carrying on or travelling within totality/wholes
> Lines carrying on within ropes
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "mike cole" <mcole@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: ‎2016-‎03-‎21 12:22 PM
> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Community Psychology
>
> Trying to follow through on each of the concepts, Cliff.
>
> In this connection, I notice that you use the term "activity setting" which
> you attribute to Vygotsky. The book I took the McDermott materials from is
> called "Understanding Practice: Perspectives on activity and context. In
> that book, in the discussions among authors, Engestrom is led to declare
> that "the activity is the context."
>
> So my mind is spinning around what an activity setting might refer to over
> and above "activity." And then there is the question of how your use of the
> term context and the word setting relate to each other. And all of this is
> presumably closely linked to the discussion on text/context.
>
> Interesting to revisit old topics from new perspectives.
>
> mike
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Cliff O'Donnell <cliffo@hawaii.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Mike. Attached is the manuscript for my 2012 article with Roland.
> > In it we discuss how we are using the concepts of context, culture, and
> > intersubjectivity.
> > Note that context is expressed in one of the goals of community
> psychology
> > by its professional organization,
> > the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA):
> > ‘'to promote theory development and research that increases
> > our understanding of human behavior in context’'
> > (SCRA 2010 )."
> >
> > After discussing the many meanings of culture, we used the definition as
> > the "shared meanings of people, developed through their history
> > and activities." Also in our discussion of intersubjectivity, we noted
> > "intersubjectivity does not imply uniformity. Diversity may be a shared
> > value,
> > agreement about process may allow frequent conflict, and there will
> always
> > be differences among people in their skills, thoughts, experience, and
> > emotions. In
> > addition, activity settings are dynamic; their characteristics are in
> flux
> > and, therefore, the intersubjectivity of their participants change over
> > time (O’Donnell et al.
> > 1993, p. 507)."
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mar 20, 2016, at 8:26 AM, mike cole wrote:
> >
> > Alfredo's comments sent me looking for background material on the CC side
> >> of Roland and Cliff's article.
> >>
> >> There is an article by Seymour as part of a special issue of MCA a while
> >> ago. It seems not to have attraced the notice it deserves.Attached.
> >> Also attached is a recent summary of Community Psychology and
> Intervention
> >> research which seemed like promising background and perhaps a source of
> >> additional ideas, since intervention is what so many us do
> professionally.
> >>
> >> Myself, I have been thinking about why Roland and Cliff identified
> >> secondary intersubjectivity as a key common principle.
> >>
> >> mike
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an
> >> object
> >> that creates history. Ernst Boesch
> >> <Revisiting the Creating of Settings.pdf><communitypsych.pdf>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an object
> that creates history. Ernst Boesch
>



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It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an object
that creates history. Ernst Boesch