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Regenerating Land, Regenerating Self: Towards a Care-full Regeneration Cycle of Inner-Outer Transformation

Könen, Rahel LU and Wessel, Clara LU (2024) HEKM51 20231
Department 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
Könen, Rahel LU and Wessel, Clara LU
supervisor
organization
course
HEKM51 20231
year
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
9141981
date added to LUP
2024-02-14 09:53:46
date last changed
2024-02-14 09:53:46
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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Könen, Rahel and Wessel, Clara}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Regenerating Land, Regenerating Self: Towards a Care-full Regeneration Cycle of Inner-Outer Transformation}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}