{"id":65287,"date":"2022-10-17T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=65287"},"modified":"2022-10-17T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:05:30","slug":"the-other-side-of-words-bifurcating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/the-other-side-of-words-bifurcating\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe other side of words\u201d: Bifurcating"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe term “bifurcate” has been widely used in recent months in the French media space, especially during\u00a0<\/span>graduation ceremonies<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from several major engineering and business schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pointing to the \u201cravages\u201d on society and the planet in which technologies would participate,\u00a0<\/span>young graduates<\/span><\/a>\u00a0have said loud and clear their refusal to participate in a capitalist economic model deemed responsible for the current ecological emergency.\u00a0Drawing a line under the employment and career opportunities in the agro-industry to which their training opens up, some graduates of AgroParisTech have declared:<\/span>
\n\u201cLet’s not waste our time, let’s not let slip this energy which boils somewhere in us, desert before being stuck by financial obligations.\u00a0(\u2026) Start training as a farmer-baker, leave for a few months of woofing, participate in a construction site on a ZAD or elsewhere, get involved in a self-managed bicycle workshop (\u2026), it can start like that, it’s up to you to find your ways to fork!\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/em>
\nThrough these speeches, the bifurcation has become both a concrete reality, a subjective experience lived by individuals wishing to deviate from the “paths already traced” and a\u00a0<\/span>militant claim<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, in other words a\u00a0<\/span>means of fighting for the ecological cause. defended<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

The interest of the human and social sciences for this notion is however not new and has given rise to a proliferation of research.\u00a0Thus, Marc Bessin, Claire Bidart and Michel Grossetti\u00a0<\/span>define bifurcations<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as \u201cconfigurations in which contingent events, slight disturbances can be the source of significant reorientations in individual trajectories or collective processes\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

They therefore constitute ruptures of a family, professional, religious or even conjugal order, in life paths hitherto marked in appearance by a form of subjectively perceived continuity or statistical regularity.\u00a0The experience of divorce, death, illness or even redundancy, often perceived as a “life accident”, can have a lasting impact on careers and lead to changes in behavior, but also social and professional situations.<\/span><\/p>\n

These bifurcations are by definition multidimensional.\u00a0They can take very varied turns according to their temporalities, the number of individuals or the type of organizations concerned, the social dimension which is the object of this rupture.\u00a0They also differ according to the triggering events, if they exist, or even the nature of the trajectories following the bifurcation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bifurcations at work on the side of graduates of the Grandes Ecoles are not a completely new phenomenon.\u00a0Some itineraries indeed present similarities with the life paths of activists engaged in the\u00a0<\/span>social and environmental struggles<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of the 1960s and 1970s. The demand for a “return to the land” was thus a common reference in the individual and collective trajectories that left the working world for a life in the countryside, especially in Larzac.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the dissemination and echo obtained by the work on collapsology, the political investment of recognized cause entrepreneurs from the\u00a0<\/span>IPCC<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<\/span>think tank<\/span><\/em>\u00a0The Shift Project, the now very concrete experience of the consequences of climate change in the Western countries are changing the game.\u00a0We must also take into account the failures of attempts at transformation “from the inside” carried out within companies, ultimately confronted with the demands of profitability and competitiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n

As they expressed last spring, the graduates of\u00a0<\/span>engineering<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and business schools are not only calling for individual bifurcations, but also, and above all, for a major bifurcation of organizations and social, political and economic in order to preserve the habitability of the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Antoine Bouzin is a PhD student in sociology & Engineer at the University of Bordeaux<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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