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Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject: Beyond Behaviour Change: Studies in the Psychosocial

Autor Matthew Adams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349674817
ISBN-10: 1349674818
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: XII, 278 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Studies in the Psychosocial

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

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.

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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.

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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