Version 1
: Received: 19 January 2022 / Approved: 20 January 2022 / Online: 20 January 2022 (10:08:50 CET)
Version 2
: Received: 11 October 2022 / Approved: 13 October 2022 / Online: 13 October 2022 (09:26:33 CEST)
How to cite:
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.v2
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.v2
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.v2
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.v2
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.v2
Abstract
Transformation studies have been leaning towards the more practical aspects of change processes and have not yet dealt sufficiently with their personal and political dimensions. They are arguably constrained in doing so if they are either overly focussed on systems and how to control them or on individualistic values and behaviours. In this study we show how the actually-occurring societal transformations that people face can be usefully approached through the lenses of dialogical sense-making and critical phenomenology. While distinct, these approaches share a concern with aspects missed when transformation is abstracted and alienated from people’s lives; namely people’s lived experiences during times of change, and the conditions of possibility for these experiences. Dialogical sense-making explores how people create meaning around transformations, through interactions with other people, with different lines of arguments, and as part of broader public discourse. Critical phenomenology engages with subjectivity and lived experience, and with the role of foundational as well as socio-culturally dominant yet contingent structures in shaping our waysof perceiving, experiencing and knowing the world. Through a discussion of insights from these approaches, we show how they offer tools that enable new questions about transformative change as it is experienced and made sense of. Situating analyses of tranformation from within a focus on experience brings us closer to understanding the significance of change processes in people’s lives, and allows for an inquiry into the conditions of experience, including transformative experiences.
Keywords
sense making analysis; critical phenomenology; sustainability transformations
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Philosophy
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Stephen Woroniecki
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author