The Emancipatory Systems Approach - a discussion agenda

Based on Jackson (2000; Chapter 8), I provide the following discussion agenda on the Emancipatory Systems Approach:

1. Basic ideas underlying the Emancipatory Systems Approach
• Suspicious of the current social order
• To emancipate the oppressed as a result of the current social order
2. Specific Emancipatory Systems Approaches/ ventures
• Critical Management Science
• Critical Systems Approach, based on Habermas' work
• Interpretive Systemology of Fuenmayor
• Critical Pedagogy of Freire
• The Moral Community thinking of MacIntyre
• The Ecological Sustainability thinking of Capra
• Community Operational Research
• Discursive rationality
• Team Syntegrity of Beer
• Critical Systems Heuristics and Boundary Critique of Ulrich
• The oblique use of Systems Methods of Jackson and Flood
3. The constitutive rules underlying the Emancipatory Systems Approach (re: Table 8.3 of Jackson (2000, pg. 329)
4. Critique of the Emancipatory Systems Approach

Reference
Jackson, M.C. (2000) "Chapter 8: The Emancipatory Systems Approach", Systems Approaches to Management, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers