Please add: [Re]generative imaginaries: Cultivating cultures of possibility for a healthy planet with arts-based practices

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* Title: [Re]generative imaginaries: Cultivating cultures of possibility for a healthy planet with arts-based practices

* Author(s) name(s): Kelli Rose Pearson

* ISBN (or ASIN): 9789465106816

* Publisher: Wageningen University

* Publication Date Year: 2025

* Publication Date Month: June

* Publication Date Day: 4

* Page count: 316

* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): ebook

* Description: How can societies ground themselves in cultures that sustain and enrich planetary life systems? Beyond efforts to minimize harm, the goal of regenerative sustainability is to support the well-being of people, other species, and entire ecosystems. To move toward this goal, recent research highlights how the inner dimensions—such as emotions, values, and ways of perceiving and making sense of the world—can contribute to cultural shifts and ultimately influence behavior. Within sustainability studies, the growing appreciation for the role of imagination, meaning-making, and culture comes with calls for a ‘humanistic’ or ‘artistic’ turn. It also points to the need for tangible ways to access and influence these inner dimensions. Creative and arts-based practices are one path: they can help individuals and groups imagine alternative futures, surface assumptions, and engage transformation through emotional, symbolic, and experiential modes.
In this framing, imaginative leadership cultivates the conditions where transformation can take root, supporting agency, connection, and renewal—much like a forest ecologist who listens and tends, working with the living dynamics of a system rather than trying to control them.

* Language (for non-English books): English

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