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: Received: 11 October 2022 / Approved: 13 October 2022 / Online: 13 October 2022 (09:26:33 CEST)
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Woroniecki, S.; Wibeck, V.; Zeiler, K.; Linnér, B. Dethroning the Planetary Perspective: Dealing with Actually-Occurring Transformations Using Dialogical Sense-Making and Critical Phenomenology. Preprints2022, 2022010293. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0293.v1
Woroniecki, S.; Wibeck, V.; Zeiler, K.; Linnér, B. Dethroning the Planetary Perspective: Dealing with Actually-Occurring Transformations Using Dialogical Sense-Making and Critical Phenomenology. Preprints 2022, 2022010293. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0293.v1
Woroniecki, S.; Wibeck, V.; Zeiler, K.; Linnér, B. Dethroning the Planetary Perspective: Dealing with Actually-Occurring Transformations Using Dialogical Sense-Making and Critical Phenomenology. Preprints2022, 2022010293. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0293.v1
APA Style
Woroniecki, S., Wibeck, V., Zeiler, K., & Linnér, B. (2022). Dethroning the Planetary Perspective: Dealing with Actually-Occurring Transformations Using Dialogical Sense-Making and Critical Phenomenology. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0293.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Woroniecki, S., Kristin Zeiler and Björn-Ola Linnér. 2022 "Dethroning the Planetary Perspective: Dealing with Actually-Occurring Transformations Using Dialogical Sense-Making and Critical Phenomenology" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0293.v1
Abstract
Transformation studies lean towards the more practical aspects of change processes and are not yet dealing adequately with their personal and political dimensions. They are arguably constrained in doing so in their current stances, either fixated on systems and how to control them or on individualistic values and behaviours. In this study we show the range of actually-occurring societal transformations that people face can be usefully approached through a combination of dialogical sense-making and critical phenomenology. While distinct, these approaches share a concern with experience and meaning-making, concerns which are often neglected when societal transformation becomes abstracted and alienated from people’s lives. The two approaches reveal how societal transformational change is situated, shared, embodied and laden with diverse meanings. Dialogical sense-making expands the theorisation of the experiential, personal and political dimensions of transformation and shows how the practical dimension of change is always personal and political. Critical phenomenology addresses how the experience of transformation help shape subjectivity, as a lived relation to the world, and sheds light on taken-for-granted, lived norms about bodies and transformative change. Drawing together the three spheres of transformation – the practical, personal, and political - allows a fuller grasp of the complexity in which new worlds may emerge. Through a discussion of insights from these approaches, we develop a language and framework to understand how people interact with change processes. This development allows new questions about transformative change, based on a reframing of transformations that brings them closer to people’s lives. Together these approaches broaden and deepen social-science and humanities contributions to transformation studies and sustainability science.
Keywords
sense making analysis; critical phenomenology; sustainability transformations;
Subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
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