The Politics of Civilizational Healing
Power, Incumbency, and Transformational CapacityBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length2h 12m
About this audiobook
Why do societies continue to reproduce harms they already recognize—and what makes genuine transformation politically possible?
This Listener’s Edition examines the power structures, institutional dependencies, entrenched interests, and infrastructures that prevent civilizational healing. It argues that recognition and moral appeal are insufficient unless they are joined to lawful, legitimate, and durable transformational capacity.
Drawing on political economy, institutional theory, social-movement research, transition studies, and historical cases, Bichara Sahely develops a framework for diagnosing incumbency, building countervailing power, protecting vulnerable communities, and creating viable successor systems. The central claim is that sustainable civilizational healing requires not only resistance to harmful regimes, but the generative capacity to replace them with institutions capable of protecting and enlarging life.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Politics and Government
Length2 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Listener's Note
3Listening Orientation
41. Introduction — When Knowing Is Not Enough
51.1 The question and thesis
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61.2 Analytic status and scope
71.3 What is new — and what is not: Listening map of the Civilizational Healing Enactment Circuit
82. From Civilizational Reflexivity to Transformational Capacity
92.1 Epistemic and transformational incapacity
102.2 From civilizational intelligence to enactment
112.3 A translation architecture
123. Why Harmful Regimes Persist
133.1 Reproduction mechanisms: Listening synthesis: mechanisms of regime reproduction
143.2 Coupling, compensation, and absorption
153.3 A disciplined harm claim
164. Power Beyond Command
174.1 The three-axis Power Audit: Listening synthesis: the three-axis Power Audit
184.2 Power is relational and recursively auditable
194.3 Against three reductions: Listening map of the three-axis Power Audit
205. From Injury to Agency
215.1 Recognition has four components
225.2 Actor development: Listening synthesis: capacities that turn injury recognition into agency
235.3 Coalition coherence without false unity
245.4 Opportunity, crisis, and preparation
256. Incumbency, Resistance, and Capability Conversion
266.1 Four incumbent orientations
276.2 Constraint versus conversion
286.3 Conversion is not capture
296.4 A dynamic strategy
307. Successor Viability and the Politics of Loss
31Listening synthesis: six dimensions of successor viability
327.1 Essential function versus incumbent form
337.2 Transition risk is real
347.3 Transition protection as justice and mechanism
357.4 The successor-viability paradox
368. Power–Persistence–Transformation Matrix
37Listening synthesis: the Power–Persistence–Transformation Matrix: Listening map of the Power–Persistence–Transformation Matrix
388.1 Outcome typology
398.2 Reading the matrix with the Power Audit
409. Two Thresholds and a Third Problem
419.1 Threshold One: legitimate authorization
429.2 Threshold Two: operationalization
439.3 The third problem: durability
44Listening synthesis: authorization, operationalization, and durability
45Listening map of two thresholds and a third problem
469.4 The temporality of transformation
4710. Transformation Without Domination
4810.1 Transformational legitimacy
4910.2 The four-dimensional healing test: Listening synthesis: the four-dimensional Civilizational Healing test
5010.3 The strongest objections
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