P2P-F March 16, 2011
If you have a general interest in how different people see things differently - or if you have e specific interest in climate change and various opinions about it then the following may be of interest.
I have copied an email below, from Michel Bauwens, which ends like this:
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I strongly recommend the book he edited with Marco Verweij: “Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions” published by Palgrave.
It is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to alleviate pressing social ills so often derail, and how effective, efficient and broadly accepted solutions to social problems can be found.
It takes its cue from the idea that our endlessly changing and complex social worlds consist of ceaseless interactions between four organising, justifying and perceiving social relations. Each time one of these perspectives is excluded from collective decision-making, governance failure inevitably result. Successful solutions are therefore creative combinations of four opposing ways of organising and thinking. The book shows the force of these theoretically sophisticated, yet simple and practical ideas for a number of pressing issues from around the World.
To introduce you to the matter, you might follow the link hereafter. It will lead you to what is substantially the first chapter of the book: https://mercury.smu.edu.sg/rsrchpubupload/3224/SMUPreprint.pdf
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I did follow the link - and it has influenced my thinking
Pamela
From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>
Date: 16 March 2011 06:10
Subject: [P2P-F] prince of networks and grid group theory
To: p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org>
Cc: Andy Robinson <ldxar1@gmail.com>, "Paul B. Hartzog" <paulbhartzog@gmail.com>, Jussi.Parikka@anglia.ac.uk
Dear friends,
I have a question: should I read Prince of Networks, a biography of Bruno Latour, as perhaps constitutive of p2p-oriented theorizing? So the question really is: should I know more about Latour?
I have only found a version which seems not copy-able or even printable, see http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_780980544060_Prince_of_Networks.pdf , can this be hacked or has anyone access to another version?
My second question is for Paul: could you have a look at the theory and book mentioned below? Comments would be very welcome,
Michel
This brings me to the subject of a theory - it sails mainly under the name Cultural Theory but also Theory of Plural Rationality, Grid-Group Theory, Theory of Socio-Cultural Viability and even Neo-Durkheimian Institutional Theory - of which the foundations were lead by Mary Douglas, and courageously further developed by her followers, the leading researcher of which is Michael Thompson.
I strongly recommend the book he edited with Marco Verweij: “Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions” published by Palgrave.
It is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to alleviate pressing social ills so often derail, and how effective, efficient and broadly accepted solutions to social problems can be found.
It takes its cue from the idea that our endlessly changing and complex social worlds consist of ceaseless interactions between four organising, justifying and perceiving social relations. Each time one of these perspectives is excluded from collective decision-making, governance failure inevitably result. Successful solutions are therefore creative combinations of four opposing ways of organising and thinking. The book shows the force of these theoretically sophisticated, yet simple and practical ideas for a number of pressing issues from around the World.
To introduce you to the matter, you might follow the link hereafter. It will lead you to what is substantially the first chapter of the book: https://mercury.smu.edu.sg/rsrchpubupload/3224/SMUPreprint.pdf