35 Conclusion: Negotiating changing seasonality Com Article Swipe
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· 2024
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111245591-035
· OA: W4390908996
Conclusion: Negotiating changing seasonalityCommunities worldwide face changing seasonalities, as the chapters in this book have described from a multitude of angles.This may be caused by large scale processes like climate change, technological progress and societal change, or by small scale and even personal developments, such as moving to a new house or trying to collaborate with people from other places, or a combination of these (1).This book then challenges the common perception of seasons as stable patterns or frameworks, even though they may vary from year to year.A given summer might be rainy, but though some might complain that summer had been passed over that year, few would honestly wonder whether there had been one in fact.Seasons are deeply woven into our societies and worldviews, based on millennia of living with them and even depending on them for survival.And our institutions and ways of life are extraordinarily well set up to deal with weather, water, and the other natural and societal rhythms of the past in effective and efficient ways.We often act on seasons in a subconscious and un-questioned way.But many of these taken-for-granted patterns may no longer hold in a rapidly changing world facing an uncertain future, and living according to outdated seasonal ways of life might be counter-productive (2,3).So how do we respond to the realization that seasons are not so stable after all?What do seasonal patterns still mean for contemporary society, and how do we act on those patterns?How do we respond when taken-for-granted seasonal frameworks come apart?
