ABSTRACT
The post-traditional is a consciousness that extends throughout governance, public and private and non-profit and all other forms of institutionalization, visible and invisible. The post-traditional regards traditional Public Administration as unduly constrained in scope and method. Post-traditional, especially when it comes to resolving non-trivial and macro problems, is the practical option. The post-traditional does involve a flexible scope beyond present disciplinary borders, although it does not propose an unrealistic and humongous super-subject. The post-traditional takes thinking and action outside of traditional patterns. The post-traditional extends beyond the study of mere things and systems of things. The post-traditional has the capability of resolving non-trivial macro problems, where “resolving” is contrasted with applying a band-aid. The person-in-herself in-her-difference is central for post-traditional governance and bureaucracy—and for day-to-day human happiness. The papers spoke of the post-traditional from perspectives that include feminism, critical theory, religion or spirituality, Zen, postcolonialism, and the links between power, knowledge and the discourse of technological virtue.
