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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on February 12, 2009
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp005
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The sociality and geometry of community development practice

Peter Westoby and John Owen

Address for correspondence: Peter Westoby, email: p.westoby{at}uq.edu.au

This article presents a conceptual framework of practice that considers both the ‘sociality’, or disciplined practice, of particular kinds of communication and action that build community for the purposes of developmental work and the corresponding ‘geometry’, or technical dimensions, of that social practice. The framework is presented in four stages, moving from a quintessentially micro-stage of dialogue through to a more structural and geometric model for engaging systems and power relations within a community context. These stages include the sociality of nurturing inter-subjectivity and geometry of dialogue, the sociality of hospitality and geometry of moving from dyads to triads, the sociality of networking and geometry of web weaving and, finally, the sociality of structuring community action and geometry of engaging the horizontal and vertical dimensions.


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