Outline Enabling Analysis | V. 0.1

I. Introduction: Building the Earth Community: Provides context and sets up the significance of this culminating chapter. Notice how daily events, such as burgeoning financial crisis and the energy issue, provide a growing sense of urgency to the issues inherent in World Sustainability.

II. Three-folding from Nicanor Perlas sets the stage for three legitimate sectors that encompass global society:

1. Commerce: business, the economy
2. The State: governance at concentric levels: local, regional, national, pan-regional, global.
3. Civil Society Organizations: Age-old but newly discovered agents of culture-building, now an established and crucial player from the local to the global.

This sets the scene for a more penetrating and comprehensive institutional dynamic that can align to support World Sustainability, a critical move in the shift toward the enabling analysis. The inclusion of civil society organizations is basic to the enabling analysis, opening up a vast territory that is contested by universalizing market penetration into culture and nature.

III. The Substantive Economy from Karl Polanyi offers institutional context, provides cultural breadth, and embeds markets -- extending and deepening Perlas's Three-folding. Polanyi provide the context that adds historical and anthropological depth to Three-folding while maintaining its inclusiveness. Polanyi transcends and envelopes neo-classical economics, another critical move toward the foundation for the enabling analysis. Polanyi includes:

1. Markets, but embeds both supply and demand in the historical context, including the public policy foundations of market societies, the key contest in the economic globalization arena;
2. The State, which Polanyi, as a cultural-economic historian, calls redistribution, includes concrete human needs and raises an essential ethical problematic.
3. Culture, called reciprocity by Polanyi, fulfills the ethical and intensely social character inherent in substantive economies. Polanyi refers to subsistence within economic forms which include the market as a legitimate means but intertwined with other economic forms in a bewildering array of possibilities.
4. Households point to kinship arrangements and to the endless possibilities of arranging intimate daily life. This direct connection to reproduction engages the role of women and children, often excluded from orthodox treatments of globalization.

Polanyi extends and deepens Perlas's Three-folding, which leads to the important discussion of Polanyi's Double Movement.

IV. The Double Movement: CSOs have already been introduced as legitimate and nearly universal agents of culture-building, but boundaries must be determined for the enabling analysis. The Double Movement extends Polanyi/Perlas into the contested realms of globalization and World Sustainability. Cases and events in economic globalization will explain in concrete detail the significance of the Double Movement. This is the critical battleground first drawn in the Battle of Seattle. The most formidable dialectic is between the World Economic Forum at Davos and the World Social Forum, annually somewhere in the Third World, exemplified by the dueling mantras: "TINA" and "Another world is possible."

V. Strategic Sustainability and Public Policy: Here, we identify the strategic moves and crucial policy discussions that support World Sustainability. Energy looms large here, intersecting geopolitics, climate disruption, economics, and the transfer of wealth. Obviously, formidable state actors (OPEC and the USA) reinforce the largest and most powerful TNCs in maintaining the status quo and promoting counterfeit sustainability. The dissolution of the Washington Consensus and the emergence of  strategies and policies promoting World Sustainability are at stake here, and the stakes are high. The pro and con of various policy and institutional reforms are analyzed here; cap-and-trade; appropriate technology; industrial ecology; gender policy; etc.

VI. The Emergence of a Community of Sustainers: The conclusion engages the emerging Cultural Creatives, our target audience in joint and intersecting movement-building efforts to promote World Sustainability. The conclusion sets the stage for the next round.