Transformation literacy : pathways to regenerative civilizations / Petra Künkel, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuenkel, Petra, 1956-

Contributor:

Kuenkel, Petra, 1956-

Ragnarsdottir, Kristin Vala, 1954-

Series:

Earth and Environmental Science Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--21st century.

Economic history.

Social change--History--21st century.

Social change.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer Nature 2022

Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations that work for 100% of humanity and the Earth as a whole. With its conceptual foundation of the concept of transformation literacy it enhances the knowledge and capacity of decision-makers, change agents and institutional actors to steward transformations effectively across institutions, societal sectors and nations. Humanity is at crossroads. Resource depletion and exponential emissions that not only cause climate change, but endanger the health of people and planet, call for a decisive turnaround of human civilization. A new and transformative paradigm is emerging that advocates for regenerative civilizations, in which a narrative of systemic health as much as individual and collective vitality guide the interaction of socio-economic-ecological systems. Truly transformative change must go far beyond technical solutions, and instead envision what can be termed ‘a new operating system’ that helps humankind to live well within the planetary boundaries and partner with life’s evolutionary processes. This requires transformations at three different levels: · Mindsets that reconnect with a worldview in which human agency acknowledges its co-evolutionary pathways with each other and the Earth. · Political, social and economic systems that are regenerative and foster the care-taking for Earth life support systems. · Competencies to design and implement effective large-scale transformative change processes at multiple levels with multiple stakeholders. This book provides key ingredients for enhancing transformation literacy from various perspectives around the globe. It connects the emerging practice of stewarding transformative change across business, government institutions and civil society actors with the most promising scientific models and concepts that underpin human action to shape the future collectively in accordance with planetary needs. ;

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

About the Editors

1 Introduction and Conceptual Framing-Transformation Literacy as a Future-Making Skill

1.1 What is Transformation Literacy

1.2 Narratives of Emergency and Emergence

1.3 Levels of Transformation Literacy

References

Part I Mindsets in Service of Wellbeing on a Healthy Planet

2 Setting the Scene: How to Connect with a World as an Interconnected Whole

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Re-Emergence of an Interconnected Worldview

2.2.1 Co-evolution

2.2.2 Quality of Life

2.2.3 Stewardship

2.2.4 Multiple Mindset Shifts

3 The Same Tone, but a New Sound-Understanding the Story of the Soul as Pathway to Regenerative Civilizations

3.1 The Story of the Soul

3.2 The Flow of Consciousness, History, and Mythology

3.3 Archetypes and Their Shadows in Modern Society-Dionysus Versus Apollon

3.4 The Ultimate War-Eros and Thanatos

3.5 GEIST-in-Action-The Co-creative Power of the Mind

3.6 A New Enlightenment

4 Possible Futures

4.1 Emergence from Folly

4.2 The Story of the Global South

4.3 The Separation of Modernity

4.4 Decolonisation

4.5 Intergenerationality

4.6 Pluriverse

4.7 Midwifing Transformation

5 Transformative Literacy as the Ability to Look Forward from Within

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Deceptive Structural Features of Modern Times

5.2.1 Relations Either Vertical or Agonistic

5.2.2 Agents as Rational Subjects

5.3 Arendt's Alternative Conceptual Matrix

5.3.1 Agents as Relational Selves

5.3.2 Relations Embracing Emergence, Adaptation and Cooperation

5.4 Why Arendt's Conceptual Matrix can Boost Transformative Literacies

5.4.1 Shifting Underlying Implicit Assumptions have Concrete Consequences

5.4.2 New Standpoint: From Within and Among Peers.

5.4.3 New Meaning of Identity, Freedom and Power

5.4.4 Amor Mundi: Daring Confidence and Trust in Plurality and Natality

5.5 Conclusion: Meaning as a Compass of Transformative Literacies

6 Chinese Cultural Treasures as Contributions to a Mindset of Interconnectedness for Global Transformations

6.1 Opening Reflections

6.2 Introduction

6.3 The Three Different Chinese Contributions to a Global Culture

6.3.1 Harmony-Belief: The Culture Grounded upon the Goodness of Human Nature

6.3.2 Relationships from a Perspective of Complexity and Ambiguity

6.3.3 The role of emotions: Volatility cultivates resilience

6.4 Outlook: Implications for Sustainability and Global Civilization

7 The Systems Aliveness Approach-Shifting Mindsets from Navigating Emergency to Stewarding Wellbeing on a Healthy Planet

7.1 Introduction: Life as a Reference Point

7.2 Partnering with Life

7.3 An Emerging Trend to Refocus on Purpose

7.4 The Systems Aliveness Approach

7.4.1 Principle 1: Generativity

7.4.2 Principle 2: Containment

7.4.3 Principle 3: Novelty

7.4.4 Principle 4: Consciousness

7.4.5 Principle 5: Interconnectedness

7.4.6 Principle 6: Wholeness

7.5 A Stewardship Architecture for Transformation Literacy

7.6 Conclusion: Transformation Literacy Means Stewarding Systems Aliveness

Part II Systems that Enable and Safeguard Wellbeing on a Healthy Planet

8 Setting the Scene: Viewing the World as Interconnected Systems

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Systems

8.2.1 The Earth System

8.2.2 The Economic System

8.2.3 The Financial System

8.2.4 The Education System

8.2.5 The Innovation System

8.2.6 Other Systems

9 Everything is Connected-Envisioning How a Regenerative World Looks Like

9.1 Introduction: The Importance of Visioning.

9.2 Sustainable World Future Visioning

9.3 Sustainable Economy

9.3.1 Wellbeing Economy

9.3.2 Regenerative Economy in Service of Life

9.3.3 Doughnut Economy and Beyond

9.3.4 Action Plan for Installing a New Economy Based on Degrowth

9.4 Beyond the Economy-Visioning Other Sustainable Systems

9.4.1 Sustainable Natural- and Food Systems

9.4.2 Sustainable Communities and WellBeing

10 Managing Forestry in a Sustainable Manner: The Importance of System Analysis

10.1 Introduction

10.2 A Livelihood Perspective

10.3 New Challenges

10.4 Forest Management in Perspective-Sweden as an Example

10.4.1 Forestry and Livelihoods

10.4.2 A Revised Forest Strategy

10.5 Scale Conflicts and Future Tensions

10.5.1 Global and Regional Scale Influence

10.5.2 The Landscape Scale

10.5.3 Potential Local Conflicts Between Different Aspects of Sustainability Objectives

10.5.4 Potential Conflicts Between Forest owner's Livelihood and Interests of National and International Objectives

10.5.5 The Relationship Between Trust, Cooperation and Local Legitimacy in Forest Management

10.6 Future Strategic Challenges Call for a Systems Perspective on Sustainable Forest Management

10.7 Conclusions

11 Sustainable Community Transformation Process. The Role of Capacity Building in Sumba, Indonesia

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Methods

11.3 The SII Capacity-Building Program for NGOs in Sumba, 2014-2015

11.4 The NGO Projects

11.5 Six years Later

11.5.1 Story from Trouce Landukara (Sandika, East Sumba)

11.5.2 Story from Imelda Sulis (Donders, East Sumba)

11.5.3 Story from Yulius Opang (Pelita Sumba Foundation)

11.6 The Lessons and Conclusion

12 Toward Transformation to a Well-Being Economy in an African Country: A Case Study from Namibia

12.1 Introduction.

12.2 Approaches to Shifting Namibian Society Toward a Well-Being Economy

12.2.1 Survey to Measure Progress

12.2.2 Interviews and Focus Group Discussions

12.2.3 Co-Constructing Community Well-Being Bottom up

12.2.4 Communication, Networking and Awareness-Public Support

12.2.5 Influencing High-Level Decision-Making

12.3 Results

12.4 Conclusions

13 A Not-For-Profit Economy for a Regenerative Sustainable World

13.1 Introduction

13.2 The Institutional Building Blocks of the Economy

13.2.1 Relationship-To-Profit is a Legal Dimension of Business

13.2.2 The Informal Dimensions of Relationship-To-Profit

13.3 The System Dynamics of Relationship-To-Profit

13.3.1 The For-Profit Economy is Unsustainable

13.3.2 A Not-For-Profit Economy Provides a Basis for Sustainability

13.4 A Regenerative Not-For-Profit Economy

13.5 Transformation Pathways

13.6 Conclusion

14 Politics, Systems Thinking and Building the Wellbeing Economy: The Example of Wales

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Welsh History and the Changing UK

14.2.1 Leading the Early Industrial Revolution

14.2.2 Agriculture

14.2.3 Fishing and Coastal

14.2.4 Culture and Religion

14.2.5 The 'Modern' Economy

14.2.6 Devolution and Brexit

14.3 The Foundations of the Wellbeing Economy in Wales

14.3.1 Does Wales Have a Culture of Equality?

14.3.2 Innovative Organisations

14.3.3 The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act

14.3.4 WEAll Cymru and Advocacy

14.4 Analysis of Generic Elements

14.4.1 Wellbeing Economy Can Help to Support a Vision for a Different Future

14.4.2 Wellbeing Economy as Distinctive is not Necessarily Strong on Environment

14.4.3 Leveraging Existing Green Shoots and Creating Alliances

14.4.4 Addressing the Particular Make-Up and Problems of Specific Areas.

14.4.5 Working Across Regions and Sectors for a Wellbeing Economy

14.4.6 Joined-Up Action and Systems Thinking Across Scales

14.5 Conclusions

Part III Stewarding Transformations Towards Wellbeing and a Healthy Planet

15 Setting the Scene: How to Enhance the Knowledge and Practice of Transformation Literacy

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Trajectories Toward Transformative Systems Change

15.3 The Stewardship Task as a Patterned Transformation Approach

15.3.1 Collective Stewardship

15.3.2 Visionary Multiplicity

15.3.3 Network Leverage

15.4 Multiple Transformative Approaches

16 Turning Mindshifts into Transformation Leadership

16.1 Mindshift: The Hidden Truth of Evolution

16.1.1 Making the Case for Truth

16.1.2 The Integral Model: A Theory of Everything

16.1.3 The Complexity of Transformation

16.1.4 Intelligence is Not One

16.2 Why Growing Up Needs Waking Up

16.3 Conclusions for Transformation Literacy

17 Models of Change: Strategies to Make the Socio-ecological Transformation a Success

17.1 Introduction: Challenges

17.2 How Can the Necessary Changes Succeed?

17.2.1 Core Skills

17.2.2 Central Process Elements

17.2.3 Entire Process and Consistently using Success Factors

17.3 Conclusion: Using Success Factors and Building Up Skills

18 Red Snow-When the Climate Bleeds: A Nordic Art and Science Project Aimed at Overcoming Climate Apathy Through Collaboration Between Artists and Scientists

18.1 Introduction

18.2 The Purpose of the Project "Red Snow-When the Climate Bleeds"

18.3 The Project's Choreography

18.4 Effects of the Collaboration Between Art and Science in the "Red Snow" Project

18.5 Why and How to Establish a Fruitful Collaboration Between Science and Art?.

18.6 How We Are Affected by Visual Art, Music and Dance.

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ISBN:

9783030932541

3030932540

OCLC:

1302998814