Transcript: How an Intimate Conversation Can Strengthen the Collective (original) (raw)

Collaboratory Podcast episode "Building Trusting Relationships" - Final Transcript

Collaboratory Podcast, 2022

In this episode of Collaboratory, we explore some of what can enable and constrain collaborative practice at organizational, project and individual levels so that we can lay good foundations for co-creation no matter what scale or sector we’re operating in. This episode features guests, Emma Blomkamp, Michelle Halse, Rebecca McNaught, and Antti Pirinen. Read the full show notes on our website scccp.net/collaboratory/

Chapter Seven: Constructing Group Membership through Talk in the Field

In our day-today lives, we position ourselves in relation to groups of others: we contribute to collaborative projects at work, we root for our favorite sports teams, call our fizzy drinks " soda " or " pop " , and spend more time with certain people than others. Through our communicative contexts and choices we form identifications and memberships, relating with others in constellations that shift, grow, reconfigure and disintegrate over time. Discursive strategies simultaneously seek to produce an authentic valued group identity and build up the sense that the group is, indeed, " a group " —a real, enduring collective with significant meaning for members. Talk is one of the main ways in which people communicate group identity. This chapter considers how discourse is used to manage group membership in talk to and about others, in research subjects' and researchers' communicative practice. A central case study uses examples of transcribed audio-recordings to examine details of discourse that show how participants construct group membership moment-to-moment in interaction. Drawing on experience in discourse analytic research and ethnographically-informed case studies, the chapter discusses a social constructionist perspective on groups, considers methodological contingencies, and focuses on participating in group research, indexing cultural and group identities, and the acts and ethics of membering. Discourse researchers do not always count themselves among the research participants, especially when operating as outsiders to the community under study. Most discourse analysts use video recordings to separate themselves from the participants in the data, and conversation analysts actively try to remove any analysis that is too rooted in their own perspective. However,