New scholarly publication on Planetary consciousness and European citizenship

I have published a chapter entitled Planet-centric knowledge as a Mechanism for Combating Environmental and Climate Challenges in the EU context (in co-authorship with M. Makarovič). The paper is published in the edited volume: Extending the Idea of Environment: New Perspectives and Tools for a New Knowledge, Fabio D’Andrea (ed.), published by Vernon Press. https://vernonpress.com/book/2247. https://vernonpress.com/book/2247.

In the chapter, we address novel paths of how to adapt into the new ways of thinking and acting in relation to the environmental challenges. We argue that there is a need for a bottom-up civic change, but framed within proper institutional, structural, and cultural settings. We suggest a redefined concept of European citizenship, which is seen as a crucial building block of a new European social imaginary. For that purpose, we distinguish between narrative-affectual and performative aspects of citizenship, which we intertwine with the planet-centric awareness. Planet-centric awareness refers to individuals, societal values, and related actions in shaping the societies, and it is closely related to the emergence of planetary consciousness. The latter is considered terms of the enhanced awareness of the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, implying the sustainable interdependence of human societies with the natural world. The planetary consciousness is therefore seen as a mechanism for establishing new ways of connecting humans to each other, of connecting them to technology and connecting them to the other living beings and the natural aspects. of our planet.