Ragnhild Utheim 
Soft Science Sustainability [EPUB ebook] 
Educating for Otherwise Futures

The central role of education in responding to climate change is noted by stakeholders of all kinds. Yet for education to act as a vehicle of change it must become more holistic, inclusive, critically reflexive, and transformative. Most critically, it must transcend the grip of Western hegemonic reasoning—of modern colonial habits of seeing, perceiving, relating, and structuring—as the only legitimate means of making sense of life and the earth we inhabit together. Because drivers of climate change involve multidimensional, intersecting anthropogenic processes that are at once global and local in scope and are often intimately personal in ways difficult to discern directly, educating to sustain the future will require competencies that exist beyond science and technological innovation. In
Soft Science Sustainability, Ragnhild Utheim uses social cartography to explore the metacognitive, psychosocial, intercultural, collaborative, and interactive systems dimensions of what it means to sustain our common future together. The
3C cartography examines the less tangible human behaviors, thoughts and emotions, worldviews, interdependencies, complexities, and dynamic adaptability that factor into climate change and its threats to human and other-than-human life on earth.

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction The World Is Our Neighborhood



1. Educating for Otherwise Futures



2. Contemplative Criticality and Unlearning: Toward Anticolonial Sustainability



3. Compassionate Collaboration: Survival of the Kindest



4. Comprehensive Complexity: Systems, Uncertainty, and Not Knowing



5. Otherwise Imaginaries: Beloved Sustainable Community



Notes

Bibliography

Index

关于作者

Ragnhild Utheim is Associate Professor and Director of the School of Liberal Studies at Purchase College, The State University of New York.