TY - JOUR
T1 - Transformative pragmatism: How a diversity of Leitbilder is harnessed for rural transformation in Réiden, Luxembourg
AU - Doerr, Jan-Tobias
AU - Taylor Aiken, Gerald
PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - This article attempts to further a geographical theory of socio‐ecological transformation. Understanding transformation has previously focused on regions, places, networks, or individual and collective spatialities as the unit of analysis pushing change. This article, by contrast, outlines the pragmatic function that individually and collectively held beliefs, goals, and purposes have. We call these guiding visions Leitbilder, and outline how they act as guiding lights, lodestars, that motivate, temper, and contain different people, groups, and initiatives. Where academic work exists here it is often voluntaristic, elective, focused on intentional, opt‐in communities and so tends towards studies of “usual suspects.” This paper by contrast, addresses those preforming radical environmentalist behavior, beyond a conscious or elective identity of being environmental. We do so by outlining the case of Réiden, Luxembourg.
AB - This article attempts to further a geographical theory of socio‐ecological transformation. Understanding transformation has previously focused on regions, places, networks, or individual and collective spatialities as the unit of analysis pushing change. This article, by contrast, outlines the pragmatic function that individually and collectively held beliefs, goals, and purposes have. We call these guiding visions Leitbilder, and outline how they act as guiding lights, lodestars, that motivate, temper, and contain different people, groups, and initiatives. Where academic work exists here it is often voluntaristic, elective, focused on intentional, opt‐in communities and so tends towards studies of “usual suspects.” This paper by contrast, addresses those preforming radical environmentalist behavior, beyond a conscious or elective identity of being environmental. We do so by outlining the case of Réiden, Luxembourg.
KW - community
KW - permaculture
KW - place-making
KW - practice
KW - pragmatic ethics
KW - Q-Method
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/79d9745b-684f-3c04-b20a-68438680c73e/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102828736&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1932
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1932
M3 - Article
SN - 1756-932X
VL - 31
SP - 237
EP - 248
JO - Environmental Policy and Governance
JF - Environmental Policy and Governance
IS - 3
ER -