Welcome to
RI+DGE Philosophy and Anthropology Program

In partnership with Legado Sustentable A.C., RI+DGE Society embraces the challenge of producing relevant knowledge and fostering innovative practices for sustainable civilization. Accordingly, our RI+DGE Philosophy and Anthropology Program aims to deconstruct the pervasive practice of business as usual and design an action-research agenda. Building on practice theory relevant literature, our research agenda: a) rejects dualisms as a way of argumentation, b) holds the principle that social relations are mutually constitutive, and d) coins the notion of SAS - Sustainable Adaptive Strategies.

 

Development scholars contend that conventional development thinking favors a structural approach. It uses aggregates or structures, large-scale trends (macro), and operating units (micro). A dominant perspective prefers simplifying reality by using one-size-fits-all models and general laws (universalism) to explain development dilemmas. It relies on linearity criteria to understand social phenomena and often reduces analysis to dichotomous oppositions. The RI+DGE Philosophy and Anthropology Program tackles this oversimplification of reality by looking at how people live and handle difficulties in their everyday lives, how the process-oriented nature of development shapes and is shaped by collective action, and how simple practices are consequential in making the underlying social forces of development.