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Over the last 12 years, I have been involved in Community OR activities with a variety of community organisations (COs) in Venezuela (e.g., Ochoa-Arias, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000). As part of this work I have been studying community action using the inquiring framework of Interpretive Systemology: a systems approach that focuses on disclosing different possi-ble interpretations of phenomena, exploring the grounds for these possi-ble as an aspect of the inquiry. For more details of the philosophy and methodology of Interpretive Systemology see, for example, Fuenmayor (1991a-c); L¨®pez-Garay (1991); Fuenmayor et al (1991); and Ochoa-Arias (1996).
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Ochoa-Arias, A.E. (2004). An Interpretive Systemic Exploration of Community Action in Venezuela. In: Midgley, G., Ochoa-Arias, A. (eds) Community Operational Research. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8911-6_12
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