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Theorizing [dis]engagement, voice and silence in a community-based forest management organization
Dissertation Abstract:
This study examined engagement, disengagement, voice, and silence in the Community Forestry Program-Beneficiaries Association (CFP-BA), a community- based forest resource management organization, in Biliran Province, Philippines. Using Grounded Theory Analysis on the informants’ narrations of their experiences in their organization, it was found that engagement in the organization was expressed either actively or passively. Active engagement may be in the form of being involved in supervising activities for the organization, initiating projects, and making decisions for the organization. Passive engagement, on the other hand, is expressed by merely establishing presence in the organization. Likewise, disengagement from the organization was manifested either actively or passively.
Members’ engagement and disengagement were influenced by personal and communicative affordances. Voice and silence were communicative affordances members exercise to negotiate their agencies in the organization.
An alternative theoretical framework on the influences of personal and communicative affordances on members’ engagement and disengagement within community-based forest management organizations, was proposed.