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Author: Yuen Yuen Ang
Most people instinctively equate ‘disruption’ with chaos or trouble, and thus wince at it. Yet disruption is not necessarily bad. It means that certain traditional power structures, categories, norms and narratives are being challenged or upended. For those who are attached to the old order, disruption triggers anxiety. But for others, disruption brings unprecedented opportunity for deep rethinking and system change. We should seize it. At the UNDP Global Leadership Retreat in November 2024, I called this period of rupture we’ve been living through a ‘polytunity’—a promising moment to question the industrial-colonial paradigm of the past and to find an alternative fit for our changing realities.
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