Books
Sacha Kagan. Toward Global (Environ)Mental Change: Transformative Art and Cultures of Sustainability. Berlin: Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 2012. (More info and free pdf version)
Deutsche Fassung: Auf dem Weg zu einem globalen (Umwelt-) Bewusstseinswandel – Über transformative Kunst und eine geistige Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2012. (Link zum PDF)
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Sacha Kagan. Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2011, 2nd emended edition 2013. (More info)
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Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg (eds.). Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures. Frankfurt a/M: VAS, 2008. (More info)
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David Knaute and Sacha Kagan (eds.). Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region of Africa. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 2009. (More info)
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Selection of writings (only those available online…)
For diverse reasons (e.g. copyright restrictions and/or availability only in print), not all writings can be made freely available online. Therefore, these writings are not listed below. For a complete bibliography, please visit this webpage.
Articles on Culture and the Arts in relation to Sustainability
- Sacha Kagan. “We the Gardeners, Cooks, Craftsmen, Action Thinkers – We the resilients?” Cultura21 Webmagazine, 18.06.2012. Click here to read…
- Sacha Kagan. “Aesthetics of Sustainability: A Transdisciplinary Sensibility for Transformative Practices”. Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, Vol: 2, pp. 70-79 (December 2011). Available here
- Sacha Kagan, “Art and Sustainability: The search for cultures of sustainability is not an easy journey”, in Katja Hellkoetter (Ed.), Europe China Cultural Compass: Orientation for Intercultural Cooperation between China and Europe, Beijing: Goethe Institut, 2011, pp. 258-263 (209-214 in Chinese version). Available here
- Sacha Kagan. “A peek into a ‘new art of living’? Diary from the Ueber Lebenskunst Festival”. Cultura21 Webmagazine, 23.08.2011. Click here to read…
- Sacha Kagan and Julia Hahn. “Creative Cities and (Un)Sustainability: From Creative Class to Sustainable Creative Cities.” Culture and Local Governance / Culture et gouvernance locale, vol. 3, no. 1-2, 2011. Available here (PDF)
- Eds. Sacha Kagan and Katelijn Verstraete. Sustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts. An extended report from workshop 3 at the ASEF CCS4 Conference. Singapore, Lüneburg: Asia-Europe Foundation, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2011. Available here (PDF).
- Sacha Kagan. “Cultures of Sustainability and the aesthetics of the pattern that connects”. Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies, vol. 42, n. 10, 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2010.08.009. Download here the PDF…*
- Sacha Kagan, “Walking for social and ecological transformation”. Culture360.org, Dec. 14 2010. Available at: http://culture360.org/magazine/walking-for-social-and-ecological-transformation/
- Sacha Kagan, From the Unsustainable Creative Class to the Sustainable Creative City: An Emerging Shift in Cultural Policies? ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture Midterm Conference: Culture and the Making of Worlds, October 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1692189
- Sacha Kagan. “Qué TAL ? – Transdisciplinary Action-Research & Literacy”. Paper presented at the 2009 Summit of the World Alliance for Arts Education. Available online…
- Sacha Kagan. “Land of Thorns: a filmic attempt to mediate issues of (un-)sustainable development”. In eds. David Knaute and Sacha Kagan. Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region. Rüdiger Köppe, 2009. Download here the PDF…
- Sacha Kagan. “Introduction: Sustainability as a new frontier for the arts and cultures”. In eds. Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg. Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures. VAS, 2008. Download here the PDF…
- Sacha Kagan and Hans Dieleman. “Postface: Seven points for an agenda of research and action on cultures and arts for sustainability”. In eds. Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg. Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures. VAS, 2008. Download here the PDF…
- Volker Kirchberg, Sacha Kagan and Christoph Behnke. Abschlussbericht zur ESA Konferenz des Forschungsnetzwerkes der Soziologie der Künste in Lüneburg vom 27. März bis 01. April 2007 = Final Report ESA Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts Conference in Lüneburg, 27 March until 1 April 2007. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2007. Download here the PDF (see chapter 4)…
- Sacha Kagan. Young People and Cultural Communication about Sustainability in Rotterdam. IEP Bordeaux / AIDA Rotterdam, 2003 (1st version: AIDA / MilieuBeleid GemeenteWerken Rotterdam 2002). Download here (Word document)
Articles on Art and Social Change
- Sacha Kagan. “Be Seeing You! An art exhibition explores governmentality and the illusions of emancipation”. Cultura21 Webmagazine, 16.04.2013. Click here to read…
- Walking in life, art and science : a few examples (ed. Sacha Kagan, Leuphana University Lueneburg, 2010): eBook downloadable as PDF here…
- Sacha Kagan. “Art effectuating social change: double entrepreneurship in conventions”. In eds. Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg. Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures. VAS, 2008. Download here the PDF…
- Sacha Kagan. “Stepping out of the sandbox: From the arts as order factor to the arts as change factor for Sustainability”. Cultura21 Magazin, August 2007. Available online…
- Sacha Kagan and Hans Abbing. “Polity Conventions in Art Worlds: the constitution of authority configurations”. Paper presented at STP&A (Social Theory, Politics and Arts) 32nd annual conference, Vienna, July 2006. Download here (Word document)
- Sacha Kagan. ENT³, art projects for intercultural interaction: Entrepreneurship in Conventions. MA Thesis, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2004. Download here (Word document)
- Sacha Kagan. “First Elements for a Method of Intercultural Dance Projects for Social Cohesion”. Nieuwsbrief Erasmus Genootschap voor Cultuurmanagement, Rotterdam, June 2004. Download here the PDF…
- Sacha Kagan. “The birth of Art: Journey in an archeological controversy”. Unpublished paper, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2002. Download here the PDF…
Articles on Sustainable Development (and social/environmental issues)
- Sacha Kagan. “Which wealth for which sustainability?” Cultura21 Webmagazine, 06.06.2011. (Adapted from a speech at the Open University, at the ‘Ready to Change’ Forum, within the framework of the Sostenuto project: “Thinking culture as a factor of economic and social innovation” – Bunker, Ljubljana (Slovenia), December 2010). Click here to read…
- Sacha Kagan, Liv Pedersen and Sally Ollech. “The Karamoja Syndrome: transdisciplinary systems research informing policy and advocacy”. In eds. David Knaute and Sacha Kagan. Sustainability in Karamoja? Rethinking the terms of global sustainability in a crisis region. Rüdiger Köppe, 2009. Download here the PDF…
- David Knaute and Sacha Kagan. Report on the International Conference: Issues of Pastoralism – zur Situation der Hirtenvölker. ACTED, 2008. Download here the PDF…
- Sacha Kagan. “L’insoutenable légèreté d’EDF”. Le Monde Libertaire, 1103, Paris, 4-10 Dec. 1997. Available online…
*NB: Elsevier allows authors to publish a “pre-print”, personal version of their articles on their own personal and institute’s websites, provided that a link to the Journal is included.
