FROM REGENERATIVE CULTURES TO LIFE-COHERENT BIOREGIONING

Strengthening the Ontological, Normative, Political-Economic, and Institutional Foundations of Living in Right RelationshipBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
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From Regenerative Cultures to Life-Coherent Bioregioning develops a rigorous framework for living in right relationship with people, place, and the wider community of life. Inspired by Daniel Christian Wahl’s regenerative thought, Bichara Sahely extends the conversation into ontology, ethics, political economy, governance, education, technology, migration, Indigenous authority, and institutional design. At its centre is the principle of life coherence: social arrangements should protect, restore, and enlarge living capacities and their enabling conditions without creating avoidable harm elsewhere. The book introduces the Life-Coherent Regeneration Compass, a regenerative indicator ecology, principles for institutional design, policy directions, and a research agenda. It offers a practical and philosophical guide for moving from external crisis management toward reflexive participation in life’s ongoing regeneration.

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GenreEducation and Learning, Philosophy
Length6 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter 1
2Acknowledgment and Intellectual Provenance
3Listener’s Orientation
4Part I — The Regenerative Turn
51. From Managing Crisis to Participating in Life
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61.1 The limits of the crisis-management frame
71.2 Detached managerialism and the abstraction of life
81.3 From intervention upon systems to participation within them
91.4 Process, outcome, and the path of regeneration
101.5 Living questions and present future possibilities
111.6 Science, technology, planning, and administration in a regenerative frame
121.7 From universal solution to place-responsive participation
131.8 The argument ahead
142. Daniel Christian Wahl’s Regenerative Framework
152.1 Regeneration as a fundamental process of life
162.2 Regenerative cultures in the plural
172.3 Bioregioning as a verb
182.4 Living questions rather than final solutions
192.5 Self, community, and life
202.6 Right relationship
212.7 Regeneration and place without isolation
222.8 Constructive engagement and the work of the manuscript
23Part II — Ontological and Epistemological Foundations
243. Life as Process, Relationship, and Regenerative Continuity
253.1 Substance, process, and organized continuity
263.2 Boundaries as active relations
273.3 Autopoiesis and biological self-production
283.4 Structural coupling and responsive change
293.5 Autonomy as relationally enabled self-direction
303.6 Emergence, history, and possibility
313.7 Regenerative continuity
324. Living Systems Cannot Be Engineered Like Machines
334.1 The power and limits of the machine model
344.2 Purpose and the danger of external specification
354.3 Intervention, causation, and structural mediation
364.4 Prediction, uncertainty, and control
374.5 Design as participation
384.6 Efficiency, redundancy, and living capability
394.7 Technology in service to life
405. Knowing with Place
415.1 Situated knowledge without relativism
425.2 Place as an epistemic field
435.3 Scientific, professional, local, Indigenous, and experiential knowledge
445.4 Learning through sustained attention
455.5 Participation, authority, and the politics of knowledge
465.6 Abstraction, comparison, and scale
475.7 Epistemic humility and public judgment
48Part III — The Missing Normative Foundation
496. Why “Regenerative” Requires an Explicit Criterion
506.1 Relationality enlarges moral attention but does not determine justice
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