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This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights
into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our
understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with
each other. Drawing on innovative perspectives from widely
different fields, this book explores how metaphor might facilitate
and underpin transformative change towards environmental,
ecological and societal sustainability. It illustrates the ways in
which contemporary metaphors lock us into patterns of thinking,
modes of behaviour, and styles of living that reproduce and
accentuate our current socio-environmental problems. It sets itself
the task of finding new metaphors and myths that might help move us
towards sustainability as societal flourishing. By examining the
use of metaphor in diverse fields such as energy use, the food
system, health care, arts and the humanities, it invites the reader
to reflect on the deep-seated influence of language in general, and
metaphor in particular, in shaping how we understand and act upon
the world. Re-imagining the use of language in framing both the
problems we face and the solutions we devise, this novel
contribution is a vital source of ideas for those aiming to change
how we think and act in pursuit of more sustainable futures.
Demonstrating how a university can, in a very practical and
pragmatic way, be re-envisioned through a transdisciplinary
informed frame, this book shows how through an open and collegiate
spirit of inquiry the most pressing and multifaceted issue of
contemporary societal (un)sustainability can be addressed and
understood in a way that transcends narrow disciplinary work. It
also provides a practical exemplar of how far more meaningful
deliberation, understandings and options for action in relation to
contemporary sustainability-related crises can emerge than could
otherwise be achieved. Indeed it helps demonstrate how only through
a transdisciplinary ethos and approach can real progress be
achieved. The fact that this can be done in parallel to (or perhaps
underneath) the day-to-day business of the university serves to
highlight how even micro seed initiatives can further the process
of breaking down silos and reuniting C.P. Snow's 'two cultures'
after some four centuries of the relentless project of modernity.
While much has been written and talked about with respect to both
sustainability and transdisciplinarity, this book offers a
pragmatic example which hopefully will signpost the ways others
can, will and indeed must follow in our common quest for real
progress.
Demonstrating how a university can, in a very practical and
pragmatic way, be re-envisioned through a transdisciplinary
informed frame, this book shows how through an open and collegiate
spirit of inquiry the most pressing and multifaceted issue of
contemporary societal (un)sustainability can be addressed and
understood in a way that transcends narrow disciplinary work. It
also provides a practical exemplar of how far more meaningful
deliberation, understandings and options for action in relation to
contemporary sustainability-related crises can emerge than could
otherwise be achieved. Indeed it helps demonstrate how only through
a transdisciplinary ethos and approach can real progress be
achieved. The fact that this can be done in parallel to (or perhaps
underneath) the day-to-day business of the university serves to
highlight how even micro seed initiatives can further the process
of breaking down silos and reuniting C.P. Snow's 'two cultures'
after some four centuries of the relentless project of modernity.
While much has been written and talked about with respect to both
sustainability and transdisciplinarity, this book offers a
pragmatic example which hopefully will signpost the ways others
can, will and indeed must follow in our common quest for real
progress.
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