We struggle with definition, interpretation and meaning, as we work in English and Ukrainian, never quite sure if we understanding one another. There are advantages in this. We are spared the dangers of thinking perfection is possible and we get on with understanding each other as human beings while not worrying too much about precise explanation and description. We might view our dialogue as an open circle. A few of us engage at the moment but others will come and go, and this is okay.
Control is shared and no one person takes over.
The circle grows from the project and, if strong, will out last any one of us. This leads to civil society as we learn how to treat one another respectfully and joyfully, experience emancipatory learning. The unlearning of dominant oppressive ideologies and discourses and the learning of insurgent, emancipatory ones are central to processes of emancipatory change. Indeed, these factors are simply routine in the current state of knowledge making in the various parts of the action research family influenced by complexity theory and other attempts to explain our world. Complexity theory questions whether long term intended action is possible.