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AO. Geographic distance.

AO: The analysts note the challenges of being in different geographic locations.

ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Howe, Cymene and Takaragawa, Stephanie. "Surprise." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1173-surprise

AO. importance of "multi-partner" and "knowing each other"

AO: Multi-partner rather than multi-stakeholder in order to highlight the sense of shared commitment necessary for the relationships described. “Multi-partner collaborations consist

NANO: What traits does the analyst believe make a good collaborator? Is the analyst interested in how the collaboration stabilizes or how it fails or shifts?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Leigh Star, Susan. “This Is Not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 35, no. 5 (September 2010): 601–17.

Abstract: There are three components to boundary objects as outlined in the original 1989 article. Interpretive flexibility, the structure of informatic and work
process needs and arrangements, and, finally, the dynamic between illstructured
and more tailored uses of the objects. Much of...Read more

Takaragawa, Stephanie and Howe, Cymene. "Failure." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1174-failure

AO. communities of practice and high "transaction costs" for collaborative synthesis

AO: Multi-partner rather than multi-stakeholder in order to highlight the sense of shared commitment necessary for the relationships described. “Multi-partner collaborations consist

EPISTEMIC CULTURES: (How) are epistemic cultures said to shape collaboration at this stage of the research process?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Querying Collaboration in Data Analysis

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Gorman, Michael E. “Levels of Expertise and Trading Zones: A Framework for Multidisciplinary Collaboration.” Social Studies of Science 32, no. 5–6 (December 2002): 933–38.

Michael Gorman discusses the utility of the concepts "boundary objects" and "trading zones" in the study of collaborations across differing levels of expertise.Read more

AO. untethered pot of seed funding + testing of various leadership styles

AO: The analysts describe a rolling pot of money that was available to support emergent ideas. The ideas were assessed collaboratively by a steering committee with representation

MESO: (How) are power relations said to shape the dynamics of collaboration at this research stage? What organizations are said to shape collaborations?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

McDonald, Fiona, Cantarella, Luke and Murphy, Keith M. "Responsibility." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1178-responsibility

Galison, Peter. Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Peter Galison looks a the collaborative practices of microphysicists to develop his theory of "trading zones". Read more

AO. Linking does not equal or mean collaboration.

AO: Early efforts by IDRC learned that linking and sharing information did not necessarily translate into collaboration and synthesis (3). Analyses found the “importance of

PRACTICES: What “best practices” does the analyst believe make for improved collaboration?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

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