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Symmetrical interactions, shared experiences and dialogical communication
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2023) Peres-Cajías, Guadalupe
This Dissertation set out to understand the role of interpersonal organisational communication processes in making sense of transdisciplinarity in inter-university cooperation programs for development. The study focused on a Bolivian university - Universidad Católica Boliviana- implementing an academic cooperation program (IUC for short) with the Flemish University Cooperation for development (VLIR-UOS) from Belgium. This program encouraged the co-creation of "Transdisciplinary Learning Communities" (TLC for short) to produce knowledge and practices among academic and non-academic stakeholders to answer to local development complex issues. However, the novelty and the challenging nature of this approach to existing structures and ways of functioning within a university context triggered considerable ambiguity that prompted endless discussions about the definition and roll-out of the TLC. Therefore, a sensemaking analysis was conducted to reveal (1) the role of interpersonal organisational communication in co-creating Transdisciplinary Learning Communities that challenge existing structures and ways of functioning within a university context; (2) the role of interpersonal organisational communication in connecting frames of academic and nonacademic stakeholders in order to co-create transdisciplinary answers to complex issues of local development. The research was conducted between 2017 and 2022 through the case study of the Bolivian IUC. It combined first-person action research with an ethnographic approach and applied an abductive strategy of data collection and analysis. Different methods (group discussions, individual semi-structured interviews, participative observation and document analysis) contributed to triangulating the data analysed through the coding and categorizing process. The study was developed in three main stages in different locations in Bolivia followed by a self-reflective analysis. Grounded in this research, interpersonal organisational communication was revealed to be a cornerstone in making sense of transdisciplinarity in inter-university cooperation for development, because of the continuity and the quality of interactions (symmetrical/asymmetrical); the shared experiences conducted by the actors, which not only enhanced the symmetrical interactions but also the sense of becoming more collaborative and trans-passing boundaries; and the dialogical communication, where the diversity of actors and perspectives could be respected and encouraged in order to build shared understandings and collaborative initiatives. Against this backdrop, this work expects to contribute to the reflection and practice of communication to successfully appropriate and co-create a transdisciplinary initiative in future university cooperation programs for development.
A sensemaking perspective on the roll-out of transdisciplinary learning communities in an academic environment from Bolivia
(Universidad Católica Boliviana "'San Pablo". Programa VLIR - UOS., 2021-05-23) Peres-Cajías, Guadalupe; Bauwens, Joke; Craps, Marc; Loots, Gerrit
Through a sensemaking lens, this article investigates the concrete appropriation of the so-called transdisciplinary learning communities-approach (TLC for short) as part of a Flemish–Bolivian university cooperation project for development. The article has its empirical basis in ethnographic research conducted between 2017 and 2020 on four campuses of the Bolivian university UCB. The primary data is the so-called organisational talk, gathered through interviews, participant observations, and meetings with Bolivian university staff members who are the main players involved in the Flemish–Bolivian university cooperation project. The analysis suggests that an informal, horizontal, and symmetrical style of organisational communication between organisational members seems to have a positive impact on the appropriation of TLC, which in turn leads to more successful experiences of cooperation with communities and other external partners in the social environment.
¿Producción de sentido para el cambio social? Una revisión conceptual desde la filosofía a los estudios de organización social
(2019-10) Peres-Cajías, Guadalupe
La producción de sentido ha sido ampliamente discutida en los estudios latinoamericanos de Comunicación Social. Desde que Jesús Martín Barbero presentara su aclamado texto “De los medios a las mediaciones” (1989), el sentido inició una ruta compleja por consolidarse como el objeto de estudio de la Comunicación. Sin embargo, su aplicación se ha limitado principalmente a un área de este campo de saber: los procesos culturales. No obstante, como se presentará en este artículo, es posible aplicar esta categoría para entender y promover procesos de cambio social, por las condiciones teoréticas con las cuales la producción de sentido ha sido desarrollada. Para ello, se presentará una revisión de las bases filosóficas de este concepto (hermenéutica y fenomenología), pasando por los estudios latinoamericanos en comunicación para finalizar con los aportes de los estudios organizacionales y comunitarios. Así ampliar las comprensiones comunes sobre la producción del sentido, en función a nuevos intereses investigativos al responder a la pregunta ¿cómo la producción de sentido se ha relacionado teoréticamente con el cambio social? Making sense has been quite argued in Latin American Studies in Social Communication. Since Jesús Martin Barbero introduced his text “De los medios a las mediaciones” (1989), sense has started a complex and struggled path for being assumed as the object of study in Communication. However, its applicability has been limited to an only area of this domain: cultural process. Nevertheless, as it will be presented in this paper, is possible to apply this category for understand and promote social change process, because of the theoretical conditions within sense making has been developed. In order to do so, it will be presented a review on the philosophical basis of this concept (hermeneutics and phenomenology), going through Latin American studies in Communication, to conclude with the incomes of organizational and communitarian studies. Thus, expand the common understanding about sense making for new research interest by answering to the question: how making sense has been related with social change?

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