Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the ...

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Beschreibung

This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies, social practice theory, posthumanism and trans-species psychology, to establish a radical psychosocial alternative to mainstream understanding of 'environmental problems'. Only by addressing the psychological and social structures maintaining unsustainable societies might we glimpse the possibility of genuinely sustainable future. The challenges posed by the reality of human-caused 'environmental problems' are unprecedented. Understanding how we respond to knowledge of these problems is vital if we are to have a hope of meeting this challenge. Psychology and the social sciences have been drafted in to further this understanding, and inform interventions encouraging sustainable behaviour. However, to date, much of psychology has appeared happy to tinker with individual behaviour change, or encourage minor modifications in the social environment aimed at 'nudging' individual behaviour. As the ecological crisis deepens, it is increasingly recognised that mainstream understandings and interventions are inadequate to the collective threat posed by climate change and related ecological crises.

Über den Autor

Matthew Adams is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Brighton, UK. He has published widely on issues of self and identity in the context of modern society. His recent research uses critical psychology and social science to make sense of the ways we respond to climate change and the wider ecological crisis.

Zusammenfassung

Critiques the ways in which sustainability and behaviour change have to date been framed in mainstream psychology

Explores the social and cultural context in which knowledge and understanding of anthropogenic ecological degradation has arisen

Seeks to understand how a capacity to engage is refracted through embodied experience, relationships, cultural conventions and material arrangements

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Anthropocene.- Chapter 2: Ecological crisis through a social lens.- Chapter 3: Searching for a new normal: Social practices and sustainability.- Chapter 4: Power, nature and meaning: Critiquing a social practice approach to sustainability.- Chapter 5: Managing terror: mortality salience, ontological insecurity and ecocide.- Chapter 6: Knowing & not knowing about anthropogenic ecological crisis.- Chapter 7: Building a movement against ourselves? Socially organized defence mechanisms.- Chapter 8: `Its all folded into normalcy¿: narratives and inaction.- Chapter 9: Embodied entanglements: exploring trans-species.- Chapter 10: Narrative foreclosed? Towards a psychosocial research agenda.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Fachbereich:	Theoretische Psychologie
Genre:	Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Studies in the Psychosocial
Inhalt:	xii 278 S.
ISBN-13:	9781349674817
ISBN-10:	1349674818
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Adams, Matthew
Auflage:	1st ed. 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK Studies in the Psychosocial
Maße:	210 x 148 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Matthew Adams
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.01.2020
Gewicht:	0,381 kg

Artikel-ID: 115101805