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Simon Roodhouse thinks it's time to redefine this often used but misunderstood term.
Regeneration is a fashionable international Political concept and is used extensively, which might benefit from a 'makeover',
perhaps to encourage discourse, as reinvention. So why
consider regeneration as reinvention, and what are the implications?
It is after all fundamental human nature to invent, innovate, employ
imagination and create. All of these activities by their very definition
break rules and conventions, provide new insights, new directions
and one way or another extend horizons. In other words, creativity is
at the heart of regeneration.
So why is there so much conservatism and nostalgia, lingering in
the past (heritage), the good old days and all that? Is it because what
we know we trust and 'newness' brings risks and uncertainty? Or as
has often been said by more than one change agent: if we always do
what we have always done, we will always get what we always had.
For those that benefit from an established status quo, then change is
unnecessary and this argument makes sense. There is then no reason
change and they even have a vested interest in keeping things as they are for as long as possible, whatever the
consequences for other people.
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