Part III — Participation · 10

Communities

Part III turns to participation. A community is described as something continuously produced by how people treat each other, not as a structure that exists once it has been declared.

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The question it turns on

What is actually holding this group together?

Concepts in this chapter

  • Participation
  • Belonging
  • Co-currents
  • Culture as practice

Models & concepts →

Thinkers held against it

John Dewey · Edgar Schein · Mary Parker Follett · Peter Senge

The thinkers →

Where the argument is contested

Strong communities exclude. The chapter treats cohesion and openness as a standing trade-off rather than a problem to be solved once.

To sit with

  • What does membership in your organisation actually require of a person?
  • Which shared habit would survive if the structure around it were removed?

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