Hegel is quite restrictive in what she considers to be collaboration. This might be due to the fact that she is trying to advocate a specific type of improvised collaboration but, at least at certain times, she seems to let this strain of collaboration stand for/define collaboration more broadly.
Hegel’s understanding of collaboration can be surmised by taking a look at what she defines it against in the following quote:
“Historically, we do fieldwork alone rather than in teams, and although we are in conversation through publications and peer review, these forms of engagement are, temporally speaking, not improvisational. When we gather at campus talks and annual conferences and listen to one another’s papers, we often participate in Q&A sessions following the presentations. The Q&A is spontaneous and responsive—is this a kind of peer-to-peer, collaborative improvisation? According to the “yes, and” principle, no. We use the Q&A to constitute our own authority (for instance, in the too-common monologic style of questioning). We don’t typically agree (“yes!”) and jump aboard the analytic train of our colleagues (“and”), spontaneously entering into dialogue in a spirit of collaborative analysis.”
