Destiny, Enclosure, or Life-Coherent Development?
A Maturana-Informed Governance Analysis of the Proposed Special Sustainability Zone in NevisBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length5h 29m
About this audiobook
Destiny, Enclosure, or Life-Coherent Development? examines the proposed Destiny Special Sustainability Zone in Nevis through a Maturana-informed life-coherent framework.
Rather than treating the project only as a question of investment, jobs, tourism, or infrastructure, Dr. Bichara Sahely asks what any development must protect in order to be truly developmental: land, water, law, ecology, culture, public trust, democratic participation, local ownership, public health, and future generations.
This audiobook does not reject development. It calls for development to be transparent, lawful, ecologically grounded, democratically deliberated, locally beneficial, and intergenerationally accountable.
At its heart, it asks: who authors the destiny of Nevis?
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length5 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2About This Audio Edition
3A Note to the Listener
4Preface
51. Introduction: Destiny as a Test Case for Small-Island Futures
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62. Methodology and Source Limitations
73. The Public Record: What Is Known, Claimed, and Still Undisclosed
83.1 The legislative framework
93.2 Official government and Nevis Island Administration representations
103.3 Developer representations
113.4 Civil-society and professional concerns
123.5 Media reporting and comparative interpretation
133.6 What remains undisclosed
143.7 Provisional finding
154. The Special Sustainability Zone Framework in Law and Governance
164.1 Development Agreements as the core legal instrument
174.2 The breadth of “Zone Governance”
184.3 The “notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment” clause
194.4 Conditions precedent: useful but insufficient
204.5 Exclusive development rights and transferability
214.6 Concessions, exemptions, and hidden fiscal cost
224.7 Dispute resolution, investment protection, and democratic policy space
234.8 Courts, public authority, and constitutional non-transferability
244.9 Environmental approval and adjacent seabed leasing
254.10 Oversight bodies and the limits of discretionary review
264.11 Ratification and democratic timing
274.12 Life-coherent legal interpretation
284.13 Provisional finding
295. Maturana, Autopoiesis, and the Biology of Governance
305.1 Autopoiesis: the self-production of a living system
315.2 Structural coupling: development as relationship, not insertion
325.3 Cognition and world-bringing
335.4 Emotion as the ground of political action
345.5 Love as recognition of the legitimate other
355.6 Boundary: the living distinction between openness and enclosure
365.7 Consent as recurrent coordination, not one-time approval
375.8 From development approval to covenant
385.9 The life-coherent governance test
396. Life-Coherence as an Evaluation Framework
406.1 The life-ground as the primary standard
416.2 The twelve domains of life-coherent evaluation
426.3 Constitutional and legal coherence
436.4 Democratic legitimacy and public participation
446.5 Land, belonging, and cultural continuity
456.6 Water security and hydrological integrity
466.7 Coastal, marine, and terrestrial ecology
476.8 Climate resilience and disaster risk
486.9 Energy, waste, and circular metabolism
496.10 Economy, labour, and local ownership
506.11 Fiscal prudence and public financial risk
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