Abstract
Triggered by the explanatory power of the paradigm of “homo semioticus”—as it is presented in this book—this essay explores the hypothesis whether insights from ‘Semiotic Cultural Psychological Theory’ and ‘Earth System Sciences’ may be related. To this end, this essay discusses features of complex-adaptive socio-ecological systems and examines how people’s predispositions (affective sense-making) may relate to evidence, insights or concepts that are used in ‘Earth System Sciences’. Examples may be ‘global warming’ (evidence), ‘anthropogenic global change’ (insight), or the ‘human niche’ (concept). Similarly, the different ‘symbolic universes’ presented in this book are interpreted regarding possible attitudes of human agents towards such evidence, insights or concepts.
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E.g., see above: ‘ordered universe’, ‘interpersonal bound’, ‘caring society’, ‘niche of belongingness’, and ‘others’ ‘world’ (cf. § 4).
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Bohle, M. (2019). “Homo Semioticus” Migrating Out of Area?. In: Salvatore, S., Fini, V., Mannarini, T., Valsiner, J., Veltri, G. (eds) Symbolic Universes in Time of (Post)Crisis. Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19497-0_11
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