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+ | by Dougald Hine | ||
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+ | === Journeyers and Guilds === | ||
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+ | In the guilds of the middle ages, a journeyman was someone who had completed his apprenticeship and was competent in his craft, but had not yet risen to the level of master. The word could be misleading – “journey” is actually “journée”, | ||
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+ | The Guild of Resilients is a new association whose members come from across Europe. Its aim is to cultivate the skills required to thrive in uncertain, turbulent times. I was asked by its founders (FoAM) to investigate what it might mean to be a “journeyer” in the practice of such skills. | ||
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+ | This invitation led to more questions than answers: what do we mean when we use the word “resilience”? | ||
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+ | === Culture and Resilience === | ||
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+ | Within the range of possibilities these questions offered, I chose to focus on what I have tended to call deep cultural resilience. As a starting point, I wrote, perhaps resilience is best understood as the capacity to endure. | ||
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+ | I am particularly interested in the role that culture plays in this: culture in the narrow sense of the arts – because I suspect that those who have dedicated their lives to their creative work have useful lessons for how we make a good job of living through difficult times – but also culture in the broader anthropological sense, the ways of being and doing and seeing which give shape to life in a particular place and time. | ||
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+ | === The Journey === | ||
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+ | I set off from Stockholm on the evening of 8 July, 2012. | ||
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+ | For the first two weeks, I travelled fast: visiting people and projects that had been on my mind, recording the traces of the journey and the chance encounters to which it led. After that, I slowed down, spending time with groups of friends and collaborators, | ||
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+ | More about this journey can be found on Dougald' | ||
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+ | [[dougald_hine_interview|Interview with Dougald | ||