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DESCRIPTION:Degrowth is primarily about transforming current economic and
  social practices to stay within planetary boundaries whilst guaranteein
 g social justice. These transformations involve processes of immense siz
 e and changes of radical intensity (almost instantaneous inversions of s
 ome variables) both on individual and collective levels\, globally and l
 ocally\, and in the physical and the conceptual world. Our mechanistic u
 nderstanding of social change demands the flowless assessment of current
  realities\; a common vision of desired future states\; comprehensive bl
 ueprints\, and clear strategies on how to transform one into the other\;
  as well as able and responsible individual and institutional actors who
  perform the intervention steps. However\, none of this is available in 
 a highly complex\, and arguably entangled system of social interactions 
 and ecological materiality. The lack of such certainties and guiding pri
 nciples makes us face ecological demise and possibly the extinction of o
 ur own species like rabbits in the headlights. Our psychological dragons
  of inaction (as labelled by Gifford) include the lack of perceived beha
 vioural control and perceived program inadequacy whereby we neither beli
 eve that we have an impact on the system as individuals\, nor do we trus
 t collective actions to be successful. To break out of that state\, we n
 eed a paradigm of abrupt changes and the transcendence of the mechanisti
 c constraints of slow causal interaction that has a tried and tested con
 nection to realism and science.  Our research uses conceptual frameworks
  of quantum physics as metaphors to depict the scope and structures of t
 he shift in perception of social transformation that degrowthers must re
 ly on.
URL:https://zagreb.degrowth.net/en/9_int_dg_conf/public/events/43
SUMMARY:Using quantum physics metaphors to understand the entangled natur
 e of social transformation
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LOCATION:9_int_dg_conf - ZV-8-3
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