Join us for a discussion hosted by Mark Swilling on Chapter 1: Change in the Age of Sustainability, the second of the webinar series based on Prof Mark Swilling’s new book The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World on 18 February 2021 at 4pm SAST.

Chapter 1 opens with key questions about transition and presents a personal vantage point resulting from the accumulation of Mark’s life experiences. It also articulates his axiological point of departure – the thymotics of the relational self. The argument of the book unfolds in four parts. Part 1 – which includes this chapter – essentially elaborates on the points of departure for this book, namely a summary of the personal and conceptual framing of the arguments that follow in subsequent chapters. 

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Join us as we continue our journey through the pages of The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World.
 
The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World provides an interpretation of the global economic and ecological crisis from a distinct African perspective. Drawing on a relational epistemology and ontology that emerges from the intersection between contemporary Sub-Saharan African philosophy and western post-humanism, Swilling traverses a vast terrain in order to illustrate his argument that there are multiple transitions already underway at the global, national and loc