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Pbog 50 days to save the planet oct 2012
This document discusses sustainable development and the need to save the planet within 50 days. It addresses a divided world with issues around war, water, waste, and inequality. It examines whether capitalism or socialism could better address these problems and take control of sustainable development. It also discusses social relationships and interactions between people and organizations, and how these impact social and political structures.
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- 2. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development A World divided by Wars, Water, Waste & Want ➔ The Final Frontier If Capit alist t ake cont r ol it will becom e an ext ension of Aust er it y If Socialist t ake cont r ol it will becom e inclusive and none exploit at ive social j ust ice. Clive Burgess 2012 What is to be done and Who's going to do it? Harvey – book title Clive Burgess ©2012
- 3. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Processes Control & Resistance Reproduction & Transformation ● 'Social' Activities ● 'Social' Relationships Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004 PBOG ● The sociology of organisational life ● A reflection of social reality Clive Burgess 2007 2011 Clive Burgess ©2012
- 4. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development 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 Clive Burgess 2010 Clive Burgess ©2012
- 5. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development 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... Clive Burgess 2010 Clive Burgess ©2012
- 6. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development CONFLICT ~ dialectic relationships ~ Aspects ● Collaboration The Class Struggle ● Transcendence ● Owners ● Historical overview ● Controllers Colin Burgess 1984 2001 2004 2012 ● Producers Reframing Organisations ➔ 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? Clive Burgess ©2012
- 7. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development United Nations United Nations ● Rio 1992 ● Rio+ 20 ● Agenda 21 ● Grassroots activism Sustainable Communities ● 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 Clive Burgess 2009 Clive Burgess ©2012
- 8. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development Global system theory - the three building blocks 1 - Transnational corporations 2 - The transnational capitalist class 3 - The culture-ideology of consumerism The transnational capitalist class and its four fractions 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 the discourse of globalization 1 - The discourses of national competitiveness 2 - Sustainable Development to further the interests of global capital. 3 - Globalization Sklair 2000 Clive Burgess ©2012
- 9. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development The Age of Austerity Diminishing Accountability Attack on... ● Bail out of the banks ➔ Human Rights ● QE Fiscal stimulus ➔ Health & Safety legislation Business Capture ➔ Employment rights ➔ Pensions & welfare benefits ● Personalisation ➔ Public Services ● Financialisation ➔ Quality Service Providers ● Privatisation ➔ National Health Service ● Marketisation ➔ Sustainable supply chain Whitfield 2012 ➔ Audits & Auditors Clive Burgess ©2012
- 10. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships... Intended or unintended consequences The State ➔ Dispossession National Democratic State ➔ Disinvestment Interventionist State ➔ Destabilisation Constitutional State ➔ De-politicisation Territorial State ➔ Dis-empowerment Unintended consequences ● REVOLUTION Clive Burgess ©2012
- 11. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development “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 Clive Burgess ©2012
- 12. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development “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 Clive Burgess ©2012
- 13. 50 Days toSave the Planet Sustainable Development A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012 My global perspective ➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture Clive Burgess ©2012 Thank You for your time & energy still more to do Clive Live...