Systemic Intervention Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice
This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st Century. It offers a new systems philosophy and methodology, focusing upon the fundamental importance of exploring value and boundary judgeme
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Contemporary Systems Thinking Series Editor: Robert
L. Flood
Monash University Clayton, Victoria, Australia
DESIGNING SOCIAL SYSTEMS IN A CHANGING WORLD Bela H. Banathy GUIDED EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY: A SYSTEMS VIEW Bela H. Banathy. LIBERATING SYSTEMS THEORY Robert L. Flood OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND SYSTEMS The Systems Nature of Operational Research Paul Keys POWER, IDEOLOGY, AND CONTROL John C. Oliga SELF-PRODUCING SYSTEMS Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis John Mingers SOCIOPOLITCAL ECOLOGY Human Systems and Ecological Fields Frederick L. Bates SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice Gerald Midgley SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY FOR THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES Michael C. Jackson
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SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation supported the project reported upon in Chapter 14 of this book, but the material presented in that chapter represents the findings of the author, not necessarily those of the Foundation. ISBN 978-1-4613-6885-4 ISBN 978-1-4615-4201-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-4201-8 ©2000 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers in 2000 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 2000
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Acknowledgments This book is dedicated to a number of important people in my life. My partner, Wendy Gregory, has given me ten years of love, friendship, support and intellectual challenges. I am incredibly fortunate to have a relationship that can provide so much all intertwined together. My daughter, Elizabeth, amazes me every day with her love, curiosity and imagination. I hope that I can make her as proud of me as I already am of her. My friend, Greg Tuck, helped me hone my intellectual skills through many nights of philosophical and political debate as teenagers and in our early twenties, and his friendship is still an important anchor for me. Likewise, my more recent friendship with Alejandro Ochoa-Arias has had a significant influence on my research direction, and continues to do so, even though we live on different continents. Bob Flood and Mike Floyd gave me a 'leg up' onto the academic ladder by taking me on as a research student at City University, and (for me) they were the best kind of supervisors because they had the courage to allow me to follow my own path. Finally, my parents, Doreen and Peter Midgley, always gave me their support-even through eight years of struggle after graduation while I engaged in a series of low-paid and unpaid in
