December+7,+2011+Meeting

Action Items: All – respond to next meeting time question – is 1/31/11 at 2:00 pm EST ok? All – begin a summary review of your disciplinary literatures (below) for the concept of reciprocity – generate a list of articles you feel we should consider. Record them on the spreadsheet in dropbox All – contribute suggestions of methods we can use to structure the review All – add to the list of interest questions Lina – establish a dropbox for the group so that articles, writing, and questions/methods lists can be shared. Post an article spreadsheet – two columns: one for citation and one for notes on how reciprocity is being defined Brandon and Patti – consider sharing what you’ve written on this topic to this point Sarah – skim past issues of MJCSL & JHEO Barbara – skim past Advances volume Lina – send request out to Graduate Student Network Patti – ask colleagues for alternate sources of literature Sarah – arrange the conference call for our next meeting

12/7 Conversation Overview: 1) We introduced ourselves and described our interest in reciprocity as a concept to review 2) Request: if any of us have written anything pertaining to reciprocity or mutuality please consider sharing that with the group if you feel it’s appropriate to circulate amongst this small network. 3) Brandon, who has written a chapter on deconstructing mutuality, does not believe that a review such as this exists for reciprocity within the community engagement literature. He believes that this review could help to form an effective or coherent interpretation of reciprocity for the community engagement field. 4) Patti asked, at what stage do we involve John Saltmarsh and Matt Hartley to get their input? Lina suggested that once we’ve worked together for a while and firmed up our conceptions and understanding of the project we might consider creating a space (virtual or face to face) to invite some critical friends to be thought partners on aspects of the review. For instance, perhaps there is a conference coming up at which we could convene a forum to discuss the questions of reclamation or power structures (see questions below) so that we can move the work forward and generate interest in the outcomes of the project. 5) Per methods to guide the review, two have been suggested so far. We intend to keep this open for a while: a. Michel Foucault’s Genealogical Method  b. Rhetorical Analysis  6) We have begun to generate questions that interest us. We will keep this list running as we move forward until we’re at a stage that we can select from among these the questions that will inform our review: a. What types of power relations are produced by talking about reciprocity as it is currently manifest in the Community Engagement literature? b. What patterns of change can be observed in the use of the concept of reciprocity? For example, these could include temporal changes, ideological shifts or formations, and changes in conceptual clarity. c. Does the concept of reciprocity need to be reclaimed? How could the concept of reciprocity be clarified to support the next generation of engagement? d. How is reciprocity used as an object of knowledge in multiple disciplinary lenses? How does the concept of reciprocity manifest in various disciplinary literatures? e. In what ways are mutuality and reciprocity conflated? How are the terms distinct from one another? 7) We agreed that we will take the search for relevant literature apart by divvying up disciplinary directions (other search offers are noted): a. Lina: sociology and education (post to Graduate Student List to ask students to reply with one or two seminal works from their fields)  b. Barbara: higher education leadership and policy (skim past issues of Advances volumes)  c. Sarah: higher education policy, organizational governance, economics (skim MJCSL and JHEO)  d. Brandon: political and social theory  e. Patti: gaming theory, ecology (will ask colleagues for suggestions of alternate literatures such as rhetoric and psychology)  8) Next meeting: Monday, January 31 st, Sarah has volunteered to host conference call. a. Need time – is 2:00 pm ok? That would accommodate the difference between Oxford UK and EST.