Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
by adrienne maree brown
Recommended by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Politics, Personal Development, and Social Sciences.
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical selfhelp, societyhelp, and planethelp designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of evermutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against suc...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Politics, Personal Development, and Social Sciences.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
“Q: If you could recommend one book on #EnvironmentalJustice or ocean sustainability, what would it be A: #EmergentStrategy by @adriennemaree.”
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