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Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject Beyond Behaviour Change
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Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject [electronic resource] : Beyond Behaviour Change / by Matthew Adams.
ISBN
9781137351609
Publication
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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XII, 279 p. : online resource.
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Summary
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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Language
English
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December 01, 2016
Series
Studies in the Psychosocial
Contents
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.
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