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Cite as: Dervin, B., & Huesca, R. (1997). Reaching for the communicating in participatory communication: A meta-theoretical analysis. Journal of International Communication, 4 (2), 46-74.
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The paper as presented below is a pre-publication version of the published article; as such, it does not reflect any last minute editing changes, nor does it provide pagination markers or corrected references. This paper is an extension of three other works:

1. Dervin, B. (1994). Information<-->democracy: An examination of underlying assumptions. Journal of American Society for Information Science, 45 (6), 369-385.
2. Dervin, B. & Huesca, R. (2001). The participatory communication for development narrative: An examination of meta-theoretic assumptions and their impacts. In: R. Jacobson & J. Servaes (Eds.). Theoretical approaches to participatory communication. (pp. 169-210). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
3. Huesca, R. & Dervin, B. (1994). Theory and practice in Latin American alternative communication research. Journal of Communication, 44 (4), 53-73.

ABSTRACT:
In this paper, the authors examine the relations between basic ontological and epistemological assumptions and understanding of participation, communication, and development. In a first section, they explore the diversity of the participatory communication literature by focusing on a particularly rich subset of research—that emerging from Latin America. In a second section, they describe six separate and distinct intellectual clusters in terms of their epistemological and ontological assumptions regarding power and participation. They see the first five of these clusters as historically developmental but constrained by either totalizing assumptions or artificial dualisms. They call for implementation of the sixth cluster based on communitarian, recursive, and dialogic assumptions.

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