Cultures of Transition and Sustainability Culture after Capitalism
Contending that culture lies at the root of our current planetary and civilizational crisis, this book uniquely explores the nature of the specifically cultural dimensions of that crisis and how culture relates to the areas of politics, policy, economics,
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JOHN CLAMMER
Cultures of Transition and Sustainability
John Clammer
Cultures of Transition and Sustainability Culture after Capitalism
John Clammer United Nations University Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-1-137-53222-0 ISBN 978-1-137-52033-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52033-3
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PREFACE
The genesis of this book lies primarily in three sources. One has been my personal concern, like many other concerned citizens, with the rapidly deteriorating state of the world, even compared with what we remember from our own childhoods; and the parallel concern that so many of our political leaders and public intellectuals are failing to face up to—the fact that we really do face a planetary crisis of unprecedented proportions. The second source has been the trajectory of my own work, which has long been engaged with issues of culture and development and which has more specifically turned to that flower of cultures—the arts, a neglected topic in development circles. The third has been my work as a teacher and researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainability at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo where, unlike in many more conventional universities, issues of sustainability are our daily concern. The book is not expecting to provide the answers, but to stimulate discourse by reconfiguring debates about sustainability when looked at from a specifically cultural angle. It seeks to encourage the addressing of sustainability as our major collective experiment, and indeed, as an adventure of creativity and the spirit, and to suggest new syntheses and patterns of holistic thinking that have not yet received enough attention. A small part of
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