Planetary Passport Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation
This book explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. The book examines the complex ethical challenges of cl
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Janet McIntyre-Mills
Planetary Passport Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation
Contemporary Systems Thinking Series Editor: Robert L. Flood Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
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Janet McIntyre-Mills
Planetary Passport Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation
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Janet McIntyre-Mills School of Social and Policy Studies Flinders University Adelaide, SA Australia
ISSN 1568-2846 Contemporary Systems Thinking ISBN 978-3-319-58010-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58011-1
ISBN 978-3-319-58011-1
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Preface
‘Planetary Passport: Re-presentation1, Accountability and Re-generation’ explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. To this end I spent time in Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom and Indonesia where the widening gap between rich and poor is evident in Yokohama, Cape Town, Gauteng, Bristol and Jakarta. 2 Most of the chapters for this book were written during a sabbatical and a series of short field trips from 2014 to 2016. The sabbatical enabled me to spend time c
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