Journal article
Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.20(1), pp.55-68
2015
Abstract
This paper investigates how the myth/metaphor layer of Inayatullah's Causal Layered Analysis is formed, using an embodied cognitive approach. The very way we experience the world, move in it, interact within it and orient our body to our environment generates patterns and concepts that form as metaphors. Language is saturated in metaphor. As we interact together shared metaphors connect together to emerge and take shape as myths. These are the building blocks of Inayatullah's world viewlayer. The worldview that emerges from social interactions of a group of people form a particular arrangement of interlinking elements from the myth/metaphor layer. The worldview informs the systemic layer, which in turn informs the litany of everyday life. Any particular worldview is therefore only ever one within many possible ways of interlinking the mythic and epistemic elements. It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming our particular worldview is the best, or even the only true worldview. CLA helps us to avoid this problem as it problematises the present and find new metaphors to enable us to envision alternative and preferred futures.
Details
- Title
- Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
- Authors
- Victor MacGill (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Publication details
- Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.20(1), pp.55-68
- Publisher
- Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University
- Date published
- 2015
- DOI
- 10.6531/JFS.2015.20(1).A55
- ISSN
- 1027-6084; 1027-6084
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2015 Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449263602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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