This article begins by deconstructing the rhetoric of sustainable development and global management, revealing such schemes as furthering industrial imperatives. Further analysis shows that a global management perspective is guided by an epistemology of abstraction, hidden power relations, objectivism, and a technological bias. Environmental degradation and societal turbulence are consequences of a restrictive focal setting on space, time, and knowledge. To counter the limitations associated with modernist objectivist knowing, a new vision of reality is needed. This article argues that transformation to a sustainable society requires a global appreciation for the space and time in which we live. Such appreciation amounts to the emergence of a transformative epistemology that can open up restrictive focal settings. This aperspectival view is offered as a means to enhance environmental sensitivity and access to wisdom and creativity.
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