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This book is an introduction to the works of a collective of
academics on social innovation and socio-political transformation.
It offers a critique of the dominance of market-based logics and
extractivism in the age of neoliberalism. Calling for systemic
change, the authors invite the reader to engage in the analysis and
practice of socially innovative initiatives and, by doing so,
contribute to the co-construction of a sustainable,
solidarity-based and regenerative society. This book will not only
be an inspiration for many academics and researchers broadly
interested in social innovation, but also for social movements and
their protagonists challenging the dominance of the status quo. In
addition, it will appeal to policymakers and politicians who want
to appreciate contemporary ways of thinking and gain inspiration on
how to better meet the needs of the communities they serve.
Contributors: L. Albrechts, I. Andre, I. Calvo Mendieta, S.
Cameron, L. Cavola, D. Coimbra de Souza, G. Cotella, A. Da Rosa
Pires, S. De Blust, P.M. Delladetsimas, M. Edwards, B.
Galvan-Lopez, M. Garcia, H. Gulinck, P. Healey, J. Hillier, F.
Hillmann, B. Jessop, M. Kaethler, G. Karametou, C. Kesteloot, A.Z.
Khan, J.-L. Klein, A. Kuhk, M. Loopmans, D. MacCallum, M. Macharia,
A. Martens, F. Martinelli, A. Mehmood, K. Miciukiewicz, E. Midheme,
K. Morgan, E. Morlicchio, F. Moulaert, A. Novy, S. Oosterlynck, A.
Paidakaki, C. Parra, M. Pradel, J. Pratschke, P. Rego, A. Rehman
Cheema, C. Rodrigues, J. Schreurs, R. Segers, L. Servillo, N.-L.
Sum, E. Swyngedouw, C. Tornaghi, P. Van den Broeck, B. Van Dyck, H.
Verschure, T. Werquin, P. Widyatmi Putri
As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change
and biodiversity preservation have become more important, the three
pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy
circles as a framework for analysis and action. However, the issue
of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored
theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote
sustainability, rather than a barrier, is the key to the
development of cultural sustainability. This book explores the
interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of
cultural sustainability. A cultural perspective on environmental
sustainability enables a renewal of sustainability discourse and
practices across rural and urban landscapes, natural and cultural
systems, stressing heterogeneity and complexity. The book focuses
on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a place where
experiences, practices, policies, ideas and knowledge meet, are
negotiated, discussed and resolved. Rather than looking for lost
unities, or an imaginary view of harmonious relationships between
humans and nature based in the past, it explores cases of
interfaces that are context-sensitive and which consciously convey
the problems of scale and time. While calling attention to a
cultural or 'culturalised' view of the sustainability debate, this
book questions the radical nature-culture dualism dominating
positive modern thinking as well as its underlying view of nature
as pre-given and independent from human life.
This book is an introduction to the works of a collective of
academics on social innovation and socio-political transformation.
It offers a critique of the dominance of market-based logics and
extractivism in the age of neoliberalism. Calling for systemic
change, the authors invite the reader to engage in the analysis and
practice of socially innovative initiatives and, by doing so,
contribute to the co-construction of a sustainable,
solidarity-based and regenerative society. This book will not only
be an inspiration for many academics and researchers broadly
interested in social innovation, but also for social movements and
their protagonists challenging the dominance of the status quo. In
addition, it will appeal to policymakers and politicians who want
to appreciate contemporary ways of thinking and gain inspiration on
how to better meet the needs of the communities they serve.
Contributors: L. Albrechts, I. Andre, I. Calvo Mendieta, S.
Cameron, L. Cavola, D. Coimbra de Souza, G. Cotella, A. Da Rosa
Pires, S. De Blust, P.M. Delladetsimas, M. Edwards, B.
Galvan-Lopez, M. Garcia, H. Gulinck, P. Healey, J. Hillier, F.
Hillmann, B. Jessop, M. Kaethler, G. Karametou, C. Kesteloot, A.Z.
Khan, J.-L. Klein, A. Kuhk, M. Loopmans, D. MacCallum, M. Macharia,
A. Martens, F. Martinelli, A. Mehmood, K. Miciukiewicz, E. Midheme,
K. Morgan, E. Morlicchio, F. Moulaert, A. Novy, S. Oosterlynck, A.
Paidakaki, C. Parra, M. Pradel, J. Pratschke, P. Rego, A. Rehman
Cheema, C. Rodrigues, J. Schreurs, R. Segers, L. Servillo, N.-L.
Sum, E. Swyngedouw, C. Tornaghi, P. Van den Broeck, B. Van Dyck, H.
Verschure, T. Werquin, P. Widyatmi Putri
As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change
and biodiversity preservation have become more important, the three
pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy
circles as a framework for analysis and action. However, the issue
of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored
theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote
sustainability, rather than a barrier, is the key to the
development of cultural sustainability. This book explores the
interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of
cultural sustainability. A cultural perspective on environmental
sustainability enables a renewal of sustainability discourse and
practices across rural and urban landscapes, natural and cultural
systems, stressing heterogeneity and complexity. The book focuses
on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a place where
experiences, practices, policies, ideas and knowledge meet, are
negotiated, discussed and resolved. Rather than looking for lost
unities, or an imaginary view of harmonious relationships between
humans and nature based in the past, it explores cases of
interfaces that are context-sensitive and which consciously convey
the problems of scale and time. While calling attention to a
cultural or 'culturalised' view of the sustainability debate, this
book questions the radical nature-culture dualism dominating
positive modern thinking as well as its underlying view of nature
as pre-given and independent from human life.
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