Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation

Ian Hughes is Senior Research Fellow at the MaREI SFI Research Centre for Energy Climate and Marine. His research interests are in deep institutional innovation sustainability and human development. He is author of Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy, and contributing author to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Edmond Byrne is Chair Professor of Process and Chemical Engineering at University College Cork. His research interests include transdisciplinary approaches around sustainability. He chairs the 10th Engineering Education for Sustainable Development conference (EESD2021) and co-edited Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability published by Routledge in 2017. Gerard Mullally lectures in Sociology at University College Cork, specializing in environment, community, climate, energy and sustainable development. He leads ‘Imagining 2050’ at UCC’s Environmental Research Institute, a transdisciplinary research consortium which engages with civic society using innovative approaches, to explore and co-develop future visions of, and pathways to, a low carbon and climate resilient future. He co-edited Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability. Colin Sage is an independent scholar based in Portugal who works on the interconnections of food systems, environment, and prospects for greater civic engagement around food. He is the author of Environment and Food, 2012; and co-editor of four books, including Food System Transformations: Social Movements, Local Economies, Collaborative Networks, 2021; and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability, 2017.

1. Metaphor, Transformation and Transdisciplinarity Part 1: Metaphors of Reason 2. Metaphors of Technological Change 3. Nitrogen, Planetary Boundaries, and the Metabolic Rift: Using Metaphor for Dietary Transitions Toward a Safe Operating Space 4. Alchemical and Cyborgian Imaginings in Technoscientific Discourse on Holistic Turns in Food Processing and Personalised Nutrition 5. Carbon Budgets: A Metaphor to Bridge the Science – Policy Interface on Climate Change Action Part 2: Myths and Metaphors of Unreason 6. Why the Metaphor of Complementary Dualism, and Metaphor Itself, are Foundational to Achieving Sustainability 7. Myth Beyond Metaphor: Myths in Transition 8. The Hare and the Tortoise; Metaphorical Lessons Around Sustainability Part 3: Metaphor, Myth and Mind 9. Myth, Metaphor and Parable in the Psychoanalytic Concept of Development 10. The Elusive Target: Towards an Understanding of the Metaphors About Dementia and Sustainability 11. The Shamanic Dream as a Metaphor of Transformative Change Part 4: Metaphors of Creativity and Practice 12. Joyce’s Arches / Arcs / Arks: Portals as Metaphors of Transition from the Antediluvian Anthropocene 13. Patterns of Interference: The Ethics of Diffraction in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones 14. The Rain Box: Raining on the Radio and Other Stories