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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.
Drawing on innovative perspectives from widely different fields, this book explores how metaphor might facilitate and underpin transformative change towards environmental, ecological and societal sustainability. It illustrates the ways in which contemporary metaphors lock us into patterns of thinking, modes of behaviour, and styles of living that reproduce and accentuate our current socio-environmental problems. It sets itself the task of finding new metaphors and myths that might help move us towards sustainability as societal flourishing. By examining the use of metaphor in diverse fields such as energy use, the food system, health care, arts and the humanities, it invites the reader to reflect on the deep-seated influence of language in general, and metaphor in particular, in shaping how we understand and act upon the world.
Re-imagining the use of language in framing both the problems we face and the solutions we devise, this novel contribution is a vital source of ideas for those aiming to change how we think and act in pursuit of more sustainable futures.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
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
