Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367698553 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 264 str.

Ian Hughes; Edmond Byrne; Gerard Mullally

Opis

This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with each other.

Spis treści

1. Metaphor, Transformation and Transdisciplinarity  Part 1: Metaphors of Reason  2. Metaphors of Technological Change  3. Nitrogen, Planetary Boundaries, and the Metabolic Rift: Using Metaphor for Dietary Transitions Toward a Safe Operating Space  4. Alchemical and Cyborgian Imaginings in Technoscientific Discourse on Holistic Turns in Food Processing and Personalised Nutrition  5. Carbon Budgets: A Metaphor to Bridge the Science – Policy Interface on Climate Change Action  Part 2: Myths and Metaphors of Unreason  6. Why the Metaphor of Complementary Dualism, and Metaphor Itself, are Foundational to Achieving Sustainability  7. Myth Beyond Metaphor: Myths in Transition  8. The Hare and the Tortoise; Metaphorical Lessons Around Sustainability  Part 3: Metaphor, Myth and Mind  9. Myth, Metaphor and Parable in the Psychoanalytic Concept of Development  10. The Elusive Target: Towards an Understanding of the Metaphors About Dementia and Sustainability  11. The Shamanic Dream as a Metaphor of Transformative Change  Part 4: Metaphors of Creativity and Practice  12. Joyce’s Arches / Arcs / Arks: Portals as Metaphors of Transition from the Antediluvian Anthropocene  13. Patterns of Interference: The Ethics of Diffraction in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones  14. The Rain Box: Raining on the Radio and Other Stories