Eco-Anxiety and Psycho-Terratic Paradigms of Practice: A View From Australia

Rhodes, Paul

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“…Global North psychology has not yet adopted the epistemological humility to learn from the different epistemologies—as I have tried to discuss about the normative grief—and still tries to apply its recipes with a “cultural sensitivity” spice. The attempt to adapt concepts such as “anxiety” and “trauma” to the existential experience of people facing environmental crises may fall into the same epistemological mistake and just picking some “exotic” concept as “mindfulness” to spice up and mask the perpetuation of cultural hegemony (Ojala et al, 2021; Rhodes, 2021). Instead, psychology of the Global North needs to take the criticism by alternative epistemologies very seriously and revise its theories and practices.…”

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Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience

Tateo

2022

Culture & Psychology

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In Global North’s psychology, some existential experiences such as the loss of beloved persons are understood as purely individual problems. In a society of functioning individuals, the person is responsible for her own condition and for consuming the healthcare services provided to overcome the “problem” as soon as possible to go back to the fully functional role in the society. This vision raises several questions about turning “experiences” into “pathologies.” Historically, mankind made sense of death, loss, and grief as both a personal and collective experiences, mediated by heterogeneous cultural forms. I elaborate theoretically the concept of cultural mediation of grief, focusing on the esthetic and temporal dimensions of such mediation, as it is visible in art, rituals and everyday discourses. The idea is that such mediation is always present, and that psychology must be able to recognize it also in apparently secularized societies.

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Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience

Tateo

2022

Culture & Psychology

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Feeling climate injustice: Affective climate violence, greenhouse gaslighting and the whiteness of climate anxiety

Verlie

2024

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper explores the process of feeling climate injustice. It aims to situate climate distress as an issue of justice, in order to generate more politically accountable and empowering responses. It firstly situates climate anxiety, solastalgia and climate disaster trauma as symptoms of affective climate violence, where harm that could have been prevented was instead consciously and systematically exacerbated by fossil fuelled political regimes. It articulates witnessing as a practice of affective climate justice, an approach that would recognise climate distress as violence, and offer support, apology and redress for this violence, including through seeking to prevent future climate change. However, the second section outlines how, in perverse efforts to maintain fossil fuel interests, climate distress is often further amplified through practices of greenhouse gaslighting – denying, deriding and dismissing people's experiences of harm. Greenhouse gaslighting is outlined as a patriarchal practice of emotional abuse that is enabled by and seeks to perpetuate white-colonial-extractivism. Thirdly, the paper argues that even within progressive circles, current efforts to witness climate distress potentially fail to enact affective climate justice due to discourses that centre whiteness and privilege, rather than recognising and responding to the different and unequal forms of affective climate violence experienced by diverse peoples.

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Eco-Anxiety and Psycho-Terratic Paradigms of Practice: A View From Australia

Cited by 2 publications

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Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience

Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience

Feeling climate injustice: Affective climate violence, greenhouse gaslighting and the whiteness of climate anxiety

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