Regenerating Land, Regenerating Self: Towards a Care-full Regeneration Cycle of Inner-Outer Transformation
(2023) HEKM51 20231Department of Human Geography
Human Ecology
- Abstract
- The world needs rapid transformation if we are to shift towards more just and regenerative socio-ecological futures. In merging scholarly fields of transformation studies, regeneration and ethics of care this thesis explores the connection between inner-outer regeneration through the in-depth study of a transformative caring process. With a focus on lived experience and affects, this study conducted qualitative, ethnographic research at the place-based level of a land regeneration project in southern Spain. As such it finds that outer engagement in land regeneration (care-giving) not only regeneratively affects practitioners’ inner worlds of well-being but also impacts their values and thinking around how to be, think and act with and in... (More)
- The world needs rapid transformation if we are to shift towards more just and regenerative socio-ecological futures. In merging scholarly fields of transformation studies, regeneration and ethics of care this thesis explores the connection between inner-outer regeneration through the in-depth study of a transformative caring process. With a focus on lived experience and affects, this study conducted qualitative, ethnographic research at the place-based level of a land regeneration project in southern Spain. As such it finds that outer engagement in land regeneration (care-giving) not only regeneratively affects practitioners’ inner worlds of well-being but also impacts their values and thinking around how to be, think and act with and in the world (care-receiving). Such regenerative capacities hold transformative potential for envisioning and enacting new socionatural relations. It introduces a novel framework of a ‘care-full regeneration cycle’ to discuss the transformative potential of the reciprocal caring process studied in place. With findings linked to emergence, reciprocity and self-organization the study contributes to a relational turn within sustainability transformations. (Less)
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- author
- Wessel, Clara LU and Könen, Rahel LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- HEKM51 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Land Regeneration, Inner-outer Transformation, Ethics of Care, Regenerative Sustainability Transformations, Affirmative Political Ecology, Relational Turn, Care-full Regeneration Cycle, Emergence
- language
- English
- id
- 9134340
- date added to LUP
- 2023-09-18 16:19:29
- date last changed
- 2023-11-22 14:25:11
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