Michael Harvey

Utopia in the Anthropocene

A Change Plan for a Sustainable and Equitable World

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Produktbeschreibung

Utopia in the Anthropocene takes a cross-disciplinary approach to analyse our current world problems, identify the key resistance to change and take the reader step-by-step towards a more sustainable, equitable, and rewarding world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780367614843
• ISBN-10: 0367614847
• Artikelnr.: 60009631

Autorenporträt

Michael Harvey is a London-based organizational psychologist and leadership coach with extensive experience in personal and organizational change. A former literary academic and entrepreneur, he¿s also a trained psychotherapist and author of Interactional Coaching (2012) and Interactional Leadership (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The case for utopia
Part One: The burning platform
Chapter 1: The Anthropocene crisis: change mismanaged
Part Two: The growthist world system
Chapter 2: The goals and values behind our 'mad' world plan - and who's
behind it
Chapter 3: What keeps the system going? The economics, business and
politics of growthism
Chapter 4: The wealth fallacy: the psychology and culture of growthism
Chapter 5: The worst case scenario: dystopia in the Anthropocene
Part Three: The change plan: 12 steps towards a people-planet utopia
Chapter 6: Step 1. Define the utopian vision (the SEWP model)
Chapter 7: Step 2. Set goals and clarify values
Chapter 8: Step 3. Support an ecological revolution in economics
Chapter 9: Step 4. Put wellbeing and community first
Chapter 10: Step 5. Build a circular democracy (and champion the
transvaluation of politics)
Chapter 11: Step 6. Embrace utopian internationalism
Chapter 12: Step 7. Help to grow post-growth enterprises
Chapter 13: Step 8. Manage yourself to utopia (by democratizing leadership
and other organizational practices)
Chapter 14: Step 9. Put psychology to work on transforming our values
Chapter 15: Step 10. Learn from the utopian imagination
Chapter 16: Step 11. Think and act like a utopian
Chapter 17: Step 12 Take heart from history
Part Four: Conclusion
Chapter 18: Make the choice: utopia versus Dystopia
References
Index