Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject

Beyond Behaviour Change

AvMatthew Adams

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Studies in the Psychosocial

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Beskrivning

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'.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-31
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:381 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Psychosocial
Antal sidor:278
Upplaga:20001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349674817

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.