Towards an adventurous institutional politics: The prefigurative 'as if'and the reposing of what's real

D Cooper - The Sociological Review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Discussion of prefigurative politics typically focuses on the revisioning of means to ends
within grass-roots activities taking shape against or apart from the state. This article takes a …

Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel

T Jack, A Glover - Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Academia, as many other sectors, has faced wide-ranging disruptions due to COVID-19,
with teaching and research activity conducted entirely online in many countries. Before the …

URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

J Pickerill, T Chitewere, N Cornea… - … Journal of Urban …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cities are critical sites for understanding, and potentially ameliorating, the effects of global
ecological change, the climate emergency and natural resource depletion. Contemporary …

[HTML][HTML] Place based transformative learning: a framework to explore consciousness in sustainability initiatives

SR Pisters, H Vihinen, E Figueiredo - Emotion, Space and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on a critical literature review, the article argues that transformative learning (TL) that
fosters a shift in consciousness towards a more ecological approach is an inherently place …

[HTML][HTML] 'Already existing'sustainability experiments: Lessons on water demand, cleanliness practices and climate adaptation from the UK camping music festival

AL Browne, T Jack, R Hitchings - Geoforum, 2019 - Elsevier
Experimentation has become a popular term amongst those interested in fostering more
sustainable social futures. But the ways in which researchers and policy makers have …

New Age and Environment: New Forms of Spirituality and Lifestyle in the Context of Secularization?

T Pinto, H Vilaça - Religions, 2023 - mdpi.com
From the middle of the 20th century, the rise of anthropocentric beliefs partly inherited from
the Abrahamic religions led to a change in mentality about ecosystems. The measurable …

Five challenges for prefiguration research: A sympathetic polemic

EM du Plessis, E Husted - The future is now, 2022 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
This chapter discusses the concept of prefiguration as well as its recent proliferation in
academia and beyond. More specifically, the chapter points to a number of issues with how …

Learning sustainability through enterprise work in ecovillages

L Mychajluk - Studies in Continuing Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
As experiments and models of participatory, sustainable living, ecovillages demonstrate how
to enact just, cooperative, and regenerative economic and social constructs, as alternatives …

Peace education for the Anthropocene? The contribution of regenerative ecology and the ecovillages movement

AM Esteves - Journal of Peace Education, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The security risks posed by the Anthropocene requires peace education strategies aimed at
developing the skills necessary for the emergence of regenerative social forms, based on …

Processes of normative regulation in spaces of “solidarity economy”: a comparative case study analysis

AM Esteves - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This research article addresses the role of processes of normative regulation,
driven by distinct approaches to collective action and underlying narratives of social change …