Learning to Live with Climate Change From Anxiety to Transformation

"This imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social transformation. Climate educator Blanche Verlie draws on feminist, more-than-human and affect theories...

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Main Author: Verlie, Blanche
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2022
Taylor and Francis
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Taylor & Francis
Edition:1
Series:Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
Subjects:
Applied ecology
Climate Change
Climatic changes
Communication in social action
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
Environment & Society
Environmental activism
Environmental Sociology
Human beings
More-than-human
Nature
Nonfiction
Pollution and threats to the environment
Posthuman
School Strike 4 Climate
Science
The environment
Climate anxiety
More-than-human
Human Climate Relations
Sea Turtles
Aboriginal Fire Management
Saline Drinking Water
Black Summer
Climate Denial
Cultural Burning
Regenerative Atmospheres
Climate Science
Firemen
Storying Climate Change
Climate Knowledges
Brush Turkeys
Ecological Distress
Dissociative Accounts
Climate Fiction
Environmental activism
Global Heating
God's Eye View
School Strike 4 Climate
Climate change
Public Engagement
Climate Realities
Classroom Cohort
Posthuman
Climate Change Engagement
Affective Transformation
ISBN:9781032073668, 9780367441258, 036744125X, 1032073667, 0367441268, 9780367441265, 1000438430, 9781000438437
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Summary:"This imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social transformation. Climate educator Blanche Verlie draws on feminist, more-than-human and affect theories to argue that people in high-carbon societies need to learn to ‘live-with’ climate change: to appreciate that human lives are interconnected with the climate, and to cultivate the emotional capacities needed to respond to the climate crisis. Learning to Live with Climate Change explores the cultural, interpersonal and sociological dimensions of ecological distress. The book engages with Australia’s 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ of bushfires and smoke, undergraduate students’ experiences of climate change, and contemporary activist movements such as the youth strikes for climate. Verlie outlines how we can collectively attune to, live with, and respond to the unsettling realities of climate collapse while counteracting domineering ideals of ‘climate control.’ This impressive and timely work is both deeply philosophical and immediately practical. Its accessible style and real-world relevance ensure it will be valued by those researching, studying and working in diverse fields such as sustainability education, climate communication, human geography, cultural studies, environmental sociology and eco-psychology, as well as the broader public."
Bibliography:Electronic reproduction. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
ISBN:9781032073668
9780367441258
036744125X
1032073667
0367441268
9780367441265
1000438430
9781000438437
DOI:10.4324/9780367441265