50 Days to Save the PlanetSustainable Development

➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture

My global perspective

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50 Days to Save the PlanetSustainable Development

If Capitalist take cont r ol it will become an extension of Auster ity

If Socialist take cont r ol it will become inclusive and none exploitat ive social just ice.

➔ The Final Frontier

What is to be done and Who's going to do it?

A World divided by Wars, Water, Waste & Want

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Harvey – book title

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Control & ResistanceReproduction & Transformation

● The sociology of organisational life● A reflection of social reality

● 'Social' Activities● 'Social' Relationships

PBOG

CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Processes

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Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...How do you define 'social' relationships?A 'relationship' is a quality which can be stated only of two or more entities together where each refers to the other, not of some single thing. 'Social' relationships are where some entity recognized as being 'social' that is people, organisations or societies, are constantly in interaction with each other at some level or another

Relationships may be physical, biological, social or cultural.

Example Physical: Cup and Saucer... Biological: Bird and an egg... Social: Husband and Wife... or Home and Work... Cultural: A noun and a verb

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Relationships

Activities carried on in relationships

A relationship is an interaction between two people... a husband and a wife is a home relationship … a boss and a worker is a work relationship an interrelationship strictly speaking is a relationship between two relationships

A relationship between two relationships:...eg relationships in the home between husband and wife and relationships at work between a boss and a worker

Interrelationships are therefore relationships between relationships... a woman as a worker at work and the woman as a wife at home

By extension intra-relationships is an activity carried on within a relationship for example the wife having sex with the husband but not with her boss that would be extra-relationships...

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● Collaboration● Transcendence● Historical overview

● Owners● Controllers● Producers

➔ Symbols ~ what's going on symbolically?➔ Politics ~ what's going on politically?➔ Structure ~ what's going on structurally?➔ Human Resources ~ what is going on from this perspective?

CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Aspects

Reframing Organisations

The Class Struggle

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● Rio 1992● Agenda 21

● Rio+ 20● Grassroots activism

● Health & Well-being ~ Eduction & Employment● Housing & Built Environment ~ Transport & Infrastructure● Natural Environment ~ National Security ~ Taxation & Funding● Energy Production, Distribution & Consumption● Economy ~ Waste Management

BUSINESS CAPTURE ~ Self- Regulation ~ Neo-liberalism

United Nations United Nations

Sustainable Communities

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1 - Transnational corporations

2 - The transnational capitalist class

3 - The culture-ideology of consumerism

The transnational capitalist class and the discourse of globalization

1 - The discourses of national competitiveness

2 - Sustainable Development to further the interests of global capital.

3 - Globalization

1 - Owners and Controllers of Transnational Corporations and their local affiliates

2 - Globalizing bureaucrats and politicians

3 - Globalizing professionals

4 - Consumerist elites (merchants and media)

The transnational capitalist class and its four fractions

Global system theory - the three building blocks

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● Bail out of the banks● QE Fiscal stimulus

➔ Human Rights➔ Health & Safety legislation➔ Employment rights➔ Pensions & welfare benefits➔ Public Services➔ Quality Service Providers➔ National Health Service➔ Sustainable supply chain➔ Audits & Auditors

● Personalisation● Financialisation● Privatisation● Marketisation

The Age of Austerity

Business Capture

Diminishing AccountabilityAttack on...

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National Democratic State

Interventionist State

Constitutional State

Territorial State

State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology

➔ Dispossession ➔ Disinvestment➔ Destabilisation➔ De-politicisation

➔ Dis-empowerment

● REVOLUTION

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Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...

The State Intended or unintended consequences

Unintended consequences

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“Information does not necessarily lead to increased awareness, and increased awareness does not necessarily lead to action. Information provision, whether through advertisements, leaflets or labelling, must be backed up by other approaches”.”

Demos & Green Alliance, 2003

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“Although thought maybe seen by some as subjective, it is the actions one takes by using ones own definition of the situation and the social relationships between the interactions of the participants and how others respond to the actions taken, which create socially real consequences”Clive Burgess 13th July 2005

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50 Days to Save the PlanetSustainable Development

➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture

My global perspective

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