Pablo Servigne - Another End of the World is Possible

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2 Title Page ANOTHER END OF THE WORLD IS POSSIBLE Living the collapse (and not merely surviving it) Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens and Gauthier Chapelle Translated by Geoffrey Samuel polity

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Epigraph

6 Acknowledgements

7 Foreword Notes

8 Preface Notes

9 Introduction: Learning to live with it The change in attitude over the last few years Surviving … is that all? A branch of collapsology directed towards inner experience Expanding out to ‘collapsosophy’ Breaking down walls Notes

10 Part One: Recovery 1. Experiencing the impact Living through the disasters Giving people the bad news Notes 2. Regaining our spirits Resilience after disasters Living and dancing with the shadows Notes 3. Moving on Mistrusting optimism Mistrusting hope What about the children? Notes

11 Part Two: New Horizons 4. Integrating other ways of knowing New scientific (in)disciplines Outside the ivory tower Towards a post-normal science Notes 5. Opening to other visions of the world From the universe to the pluriverse The emergence of a pluriversal mycelium Notes 6. Telling other stories ‘Zombie’ stories Stories as weapons for large-scale subversion Stories of times to come Notes Interlude: Entry to collapsosophy Rediscovering connections through ecopsychology Accepting our feminine side through ecofeminism Notes

12 Part Three: Collapsosophy 7. Weaving connections Between humans With ‘other-than-humans’ With deep time With what is beyond us Notes 8. Growing up and settling down Emerging from patho-adolescence Reconciling our masculine and feminine sides Restoring the wild Constituting ‘rough-weather networks’ Notes

13 Conclusion: Apocalypse or ‘happy collapse’? The inner path and the outer effect Survival as the first step Making breaches and holding on to them Notes

14 Afterword Notes

15 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 1 Figure 1Diagram of post-normal science (modified from Jerome R. Ravetz, ‘The post-normal …

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3 Title Page ANOTHER END OF THE WORLD IS POSSIBLE Living the collapse (and not merely surviving it) Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens and Gauthier Chapelle Translated by Geoffrey Samuel polity

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Epigraph

7 Acknowledgements

8 Foreword

9 Preface

10 Introduction: Learning to live with it

11 Begin Reading

12 Conclusion: Apocalypse or ‘happy collapse’?

13 Afterword

14 End User License Agreement

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Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens and Gauthier Chapelle

Translated by Geoffrey Samuel

polity

Originally published in French as Une autre fin du monde est possible: Vivre l’effondrement (et pas seulement y survivre ). Préface de Dominique Bourg. Postface de Cyril Dion. © Editions du Seuil, 2018

This English edition © Polity Press, 2021

Excerpt from Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. Copyright © 1959, 1962, 1984, 1992, 2006 by Viktor E. Frankl. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston

Excerpt from Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig. Copyright © 1969 by Editions de Minuit. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Editions de Minuit

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Names: Servigne, Pablo, author. | Stevens, Raphaël, author. | Chapelle, Gauthier, author. | Samuel, Geoffrey, translator.

Title: Another end of the world is possible : living the collapse (and not merely surviving it) / Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Gauthier Chapelle ; translated by Geoffrey Samuel.

Other titles: Une autre fin du monde est possible. English

Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “How to face the environmental crisis with open eyes and a deeper awareness of what we can do about it”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020023225 (print) | LCCN 2020023226 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509544653 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509544660 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509544677 (epub)