Abstract

Collaborative governance within natural resource management relies on dialogical forums where people can negotiate complex issues through conversations. In this paper, we investigate situations where procedural frames around these discussions are negotiated in the conversations between its participants in a corpus from five different natural resource management contexts. We present how frame discussions are initiated, how actors express that actions are not aligned with the frames, and finally, how these openings of discourse about the frames are interactively managed, maintained, and closed. We argue norms of inclusiveness, consensus, and performance shape the interaction and hamper the joint investigation of the frames, and undermine the entire justification of the collaborative processes and the core quality of dialogical conversations.

Keywords

collaborative process; dialogue; procedural frame; natural resource management; negotiation

Published in

Language and dialogue
2023, Volume: 13, number: 2, pages: 200 - 228

SLU Authors

• Hallgren, Lars

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Bergeå, Hanna

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Montgomerie, Emily

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Westberg, Lotten

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Information Systems, Social aspects


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00147.hal

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/128441