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Radical, Dominant and Emerging…

I’ve just come from a lecture given by the Center for Sustainable Development, as part of its Sustainable Development and the Movement for Social Justice lecture series by Andrew Jamison of Aalborg University in Denmark. He uses a distinction of Raymond Williams to come up with these categories for the cognitive praxis in relation to responses to global justice.

Residual Dominant Emerging
Key Sites Local/national Global/

transnational

Hybrid
Forms of action Popular Commercial Exemplary
Resistance Facilitation Mobilization
Forms of knowledge Factual/way Managerial Situated
Sources of knowledge Traditions Professional Experience
Disciplines Expertise Examples
Examples Religion Transparency International Carter Center

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