< Issue No. 15 (2020)Article
As If This Is Home
Adamek, Wendi, University of Calgary
Abstract
In Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (2017), economist Kate Raworth calls for the need to recreate or re-recognize ties between economic activities and complex social, biological, and cultural systems. Such reintegration, she argues, is the foundation of a necessary shift from extractive to regenerative systems. In this paper I discuss some of the critical challenges and compelling possibilities that arise when we try to imagine how human self-understanding could be integrated with regenerative practices. Throughout, I focus on co-constitution or mutual causality as a key dynamic that connects Raworth’s "seven ways," Buddhist epistemology, and permaculture practices.