RESILIENCE, COMMUNITY ACTION AND SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION People, Place, Practice, Power, Politics and Possibility in Transition, 2017
Subjective ideas and intersubjective stories or narratives are intricately linked with the ‘objec... more Subjective ideas and intersubjective stories or narratives are intricately linked with the ‘objective’ world. They can be a source of vision, innovation, creativity and flourishing progress – and a source of mental barriers, strategic power or even forceful domination. Drawing on Karl Polanyi and Antonio Gramsci this paper discusses why bringing the idea of "social myths" and hegemony of worldviews into concepts like the Multi-Level-Perspective on social transformation will provide significant insights into drivers as well as barriers of regime changes. It also shows that transformation of a system needs to go hand in hand with a paradigm shift as the latter influences the purpose that the given system is pursuing as much as the views around how this purpose might best be served.
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In our discussions with funders, climate experts and consultants, we found that many interpretations of the terms Transformational Change and Paradigm Shift exist, along some confusion about how these link up to or differ from established concepts like sustainable development.
We have collected some “frequently asked questions” from two
workshops with practitioners from GIZ and other international development agencies and developed answers in a practice-oriented, yet strongly science-based manner, addressing climate change practitioners rather than scientists already deeply involved in transition research.
Of course they represent just one possible interpretation, which is the one of a complex system view. We do find, however, that this view gains significant traction in the transformation literature.
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In our discussions with funders, climate experts and consultants, we found that many interpretations of the terms Transformational Change and Paradigm Shift exist, along some confusion about how these link up to or differ from established concepts like sustainable development.
We have collected some “frequently asked questions” from two
workshops with practitioners from GIZ and other international development agencies and developed answers in a practice-oriented, yet strongly science-based manner, addressing climate change practitioners rather than scientists already deeply involved in transition research.
Of course they represent just one possible interpretation, which is the one of a complex system view. We do find, however, that this view gains significant traction in the transformation literature.