Denizen

Partnerism with Riane Eisler

Episode Summary

Can we envision a socio-economic system where all relationships, institutions, policies, and organizations are based on principles of equitable partnership rather than domination? Our guest in this episode, Riane Eisler, has spent a lifetime researching this question. We explore her answer, which she called Partnerism in this conversation. Several members of the Denizen community also comment on how her work has impacted them.

Episode Notes

Partnerism is both a social and economic system. Based on the principles of equitable partnership, it reaches across the spectrum of society — gender studies, family systems, organizations, cultures, and political systems — as a movement towards a more just and caring society. Overall, it shifts paradigms from hierarchies of domination to hierarchies of actualization.

This has been the life's work of our guest for this episode, Riane Eisler. She is a social scientist, cultural historian, attorney, and Holocaust survivor whose transciplinary exploration is making a lasting impact in the social sciences and society-at-large.

This episode also features the contributions of three Denizens who are building on Riane's work in distinct ways - movement-building, storytelling, and economic change.

In this episode, our deep dive on partnerism includes:
 

• Introducing Riane and her story [2:39]
• Introducing partnerism [4:29]
• The domination-partnership scale [10:32]
• Four cornerstones of transitioning from domination to partnership cultures [16:55]
• Quantifying the economic value of care [22:51]
• Shifting narratives from domination to partnership [27:10, 39:28]
• Introducing The Chalice and the Blade [28:21]
• Nations modeling the shift to partnerism [29:31]
• Introducing Rosie von Lila [32:36]
• Introducing Catherine Connors [39:28]
• Introducing Donnie Maclurcan [49:25]