Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation : : Transdisciplinary Perspectives.

• Author: Hughes, Ian.
• TeilnehmendeR: Byrne, Edmond.; Mullally, Gerard.; Sage, Colin.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Chapter 1: Metaphor, transformation, and transdisciplinarity
• The language of transformation
• The importance of metaphor
• Properties of metaphors
• Metaphors draw on our physicality
• Metaphors are embedded in shared cultural contexts
• Metaphors influence our social reality and our perception of the natural world
• Metaphors can suggest specific modes of action
• Metaphors can enhance or inhibit effective communication
• Minding our language
• Metaphor and structure of the volume
• Transformation: The role of language
• Overview of chapters
• Metaphors of reason
• Myths and metaphors of unreason
• Metaphor, myth, and mind
• Metaphors of creativity and practice
• Conclusion: Language as catalyst for sustainable, transformative change
• References
• Part I: Metaphors of reason
• Chapter 2: Metaphors of technological change
• Introduction
• Metaphors and the unintended consequences of technology
• Metaphors of technological change
• Technological fix
• Technological determinism
• Technological dialogue
• Technological momentum
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 3: Nitrogen, planetary boundaries, and the metabolic rift: Using metaphor for dietary transitions towards a safe operating space
• Introduction
• The Metabolic Rift: Forms of ecological rupture
• Planetary boundaries
• Nitrogen and the Global Food System
• Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 4: Alchemical and cyborgian imaginings in technoscientific discourse relating to holistic turns in food processing and personalised nutrition
• Introduction
• Theoretical background
• Structural linguistics and the science of signs
• Structuralism and culinary signification.
• Psychoanalysis of technoscience
• Cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphor
• Literary analysis and defamiliarisation
• Cyborg imaginings for sustainable diets
• The factory as rational ideal
• Panoptic diets and molecularised discourse
• The cyborg as a (strange) holistic turn
• Food and non-food
• Alchemical imaginings for sustainable processing
• Alchemy and modern science
• Finding unity in chaos
• Waste-free but wasteful
• The dynamics of sustainable food discourse
• Metaphors as roadmaps for discovery
• Introduction to Lacan's four discourses
• Discourse analysis: The return to Holism
• Discourse of the university
• Discourse of the analyst
• Discourse of the hysteric
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 5: Carbon budgets: A metaphor to bridge the science-policy interface on climate change action
• Introduction
• Global context
• Carbon budgets as an instrument of equitable climate action
• Irish context
• What can I do? Figure out your carbon budget!
• Notes
• References
• Part II: Myths and metaphors of unreason
• Chapter 6: Why the metaphor of complementary dualism, and metaphor itself, are foundational to achieving sustainability
• Complementary dualism and sustainability narratives
• The foundational value of metaphor in general
• Sustainable salvation through myth, metaphor, and the sacred?
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 7: Myth beyond metaphor: Myths in transition
• Introduction
• Mythopoesis and the Myth Gap
• Rationality and the death of myth
• Communicating science
• Unreal reality and the role of stories
• The positive myth
• Goethe's Faust as mythopoesis
• Mythopoesis or Mythoanastaino?
• Oedipal theme
• Conclusion: The potential for consolidating Myth and Science
• Bibliography
• Chapter 8: The hare and the tortoise: Metaphorical lessons around sustainability.
• Narrative one: Environmentalism as a social movement
• Narrative two: Climate change - An expert's opinion
• Narrative three: Niche versus mainstreaming
• Narrative four: A maturing civilisation
• Closing discussion
• Acknowledgement
• References
• Part III: Metaphor, myth, and mind
• Chapter 9: Myth, metaphor, and parable in the psychoanalytic concept of development
• Environmental sustainability, sustainable development, and psychology
• The story of development in psychoanalysis
• Life stages, internal objects, and states of mind
• The myth of Narcissus - Early omnipotence to separation
• The myth of Oedipus - From omnipotent control to relationship
• The diverging paths of early development: Healthy and unhealthy narcissism
• Latency
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• A parable of psychic development
• Reimagining sustainability
• Development as an ongoing creative process that is never complete
• The necessity of overcoming infantile narcissism
• Recognising the sacred
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Chapter 10: The elusive target: Towards an understanding of the metaphors about dementia and sustainability
• The dementia conundrum
• Metaphors of dementia and sustainability
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 11: The shamanic dream as a metaphor of transformative change
• Dreams, indigenous peoples, and indigenous knowledge
• Eco-cosmologies and shamanic dreams
• Amazonia
• Anthropogenic forests of Amazonia
• Amerindian ontologies
• The Yanomami
• Brazilian indigenous Amazonia
• Davi Kopenawa: Yanomami spokesman and the "Dalai Lama" of the rainforest
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Part IV: Metaphors of creativity and practice
• Chapter 12: Joyce's arches/arcs/arks: Portals as metaphors of transition from the antediluvian Anthropocene
• Metaphor and metanoia
• James Joyce's portals of discovery.
• The parallax power of portals
• Joyce's education and his model for how to live the good life
• Maieutics, mimesis, and educating for transition
• Conclusion: At the vestibule of hell
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 13: Patterns of interference: The ethics of diffraction in Mike McCormack's solar bones
• Introduction
• The metaphor of diffraction
• Mike McCormack's Solar Bones
• Science and literature
• Time and space
• Environmental/personal crises
• Living with the chaos
• Hauntings, interruptions
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 14: The Rain Box: Raining on the radio and other stories
• Introduction
• Notes on Blindness (2016)
• Rain Room (2012)
• Difficult Joys (1995)
• (Jools Gilson, Difficult Joys, 1995)
• The Lios (2004)
• The Knitting Map (2005)
• Irish words for rain: The Rain Box (2017)
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index.