Join us for a discussion hosted by Mark Swilling on Chapter 2: Ukama: emerging metatheories for the twenty-first century, the third of the webinar series based on Prof Mark Swilling’s new book The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World on 8 April 2021 at 4pm SAST.
Chapter 2 is about our emerging relational conception of the world, and how this translates into a radical politics of the commons by way of incremental actions. This provides the basis for constructing relational theories of economy and governance. Chapter 2 describes the process of conceptual breakdown and synthesis, giving rise to new ways of seeing our world and the crises we face. If there is a word that can best sum up the emergent way of seeing the world, it would be the African notion of ‘Ukama’, meaning relatedness or relationality. And if there is a phrase that sums up how we go about changing the world that flows from this emergent relational perspective, it would be ‘radical incrementalism’.