The Infinite Game: How to Live Well Together

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n The Infinite Game, Niki Harre asks us to imagine our world anew. What if we are all part of a different type of game entirely - a game in which playing matters more than winning, a game that anyone can join at any time, a game in which rules evolve as new players turn up - an infinite game Harre looks at our society (are people pawns or participants) and ourselves (what kind of player would you like to be) to offer an inspiring vision of how we might live well together. Deeply informed by psychological research and a life of social activism, Niki Harre's provocative book teaches us all how we might live life as an infinite game

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`It seems to me that violence happens in this world when we try to achieve objectives on a short wavelength of time. We short-circuit the right process. In contrast, nonviolence works on the long wave. In The Infinite Game, Niki Harre points towards the transformations that can happen if we move from finite towards infinite ways of seeing and being. A timely study for our pressed and pressing times.' - Professor Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power and Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service.

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Niki Harre is associate professor of psychology at the University of Auckland. She is the author of numerous scholarly papers on community psychology, youth development and social change, as well as the book Psychology for a Better World: Working with People to Save the Planet (revised and updated edition, Auckland University Press, 2018). She has conducted numerous `infinite game' workshops in New Zealand and overseas.