Feeling solastalgia: A study of the effects of changing climate in rural India

Kumar, Pawan; Kumar, Nitish; Sarthi, P. Parth

doi:10.1111/ajsp.12473

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“…It has its origins in the concepts of nostalgia, solace, desolation. Contrary to nostalgia, home still exists and there is no dislocation, nevertheless it can have quite serious existential and psychological consequences, leading to the fading of the sense of belonging and identity [26,99,100].…”

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Eco-emotions and Psychoterratic Syndromes: Reshaping Mental Health Assessment Under Climate Change

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Human activities like greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and deforestation are largely responsible for climate change and biodiversity loss. The climate is a complex system and scientists are striving to predict, prevent, and address the aforementioned issues in order to avoid reaching tipping points. The threat to humankind is not only physical (ie, heat waves, floods, droughts) but also psychological, especially for some groups. Insecurity, danger, chaos, and an unstable system due to climate change have both short-and long-term psychological effects. In this scenario, the need for new psychological categories is emerging, namely, eco-emotions and psychoterratic syndromes which include eco-anxiety, ecological grief, climate worry, and climate trauma. This paper focuses on these new categories, presenting a summary of each one, including definitions, hypotheses, questions, and testological evaluations, as a useful tool to be consulted by researchers and clinicians and to help them in the therapeutic work. Also, this paper endeavors to distinguish between a psychological stress resulting in a positive outcome, such as pro-environmental behavior, compared to a stress that leads to a psychopathology. Prevention and intervention strategies including social and community support are fundamental to help cope with and mitigate the effect of climate change on mental health. In conclusion, the climate crisis has led to an enormous increase in research on climate change and its consequences on mental health. Researchers and clinicians must be prepared to assess this complex phenomenon and provide help to those who cannot cope with anxiety and climatic mourning.

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Eco-emotions and Psychoterratic Syndromes: Reshaping Mental Health Assessment Under Climate Change

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“…For example, there is strong evidence for gender differences in ratings of concern about climate change as well as in specific expressions of emotions (Clayton et al 2023;Swim, Vescio, Dahl, & Zawadzki, 2018). By describing the emotional impacts experienced by those who are affected by climate change, the emergence of what Albrecht (2019) has named "psychoterratic" emotion termsterms for emotional responses to the natural environment, such as solastalgia to describe distress related to the perception of environmental changemay help to recognize those impacts (Kumar, Kumar, & Sarthi, 2021).…”

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Looking at Emotions to Understand Responses to Environmental Challenges

Clayton

Ogunbode

2023

Emotion Review

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Emotions are keys to understanding the response to environmental problems. We discuss three important roles. First, emotions like worry, anxiety, pride and hope can motivate pro-environmental behaviour. Second, emotions are also consequences; the emotional impacts of environmental degradation, such as climate anxiety, can affect mental health, and recognising these impacts is necessary to encourage individual and societal resilience. Finally, emotion also has a communicative function and is part of shared experience. The ability to describe and elicit shared emotions in response to environmental problems allows those problems to become part of social discourse, which is necessary for addressing them. Research in all these areas can help guide an adaptive response to environmental challenges.

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“…Unfortunately, colonialism continues to wreak havoc on how we research and understand public health, diseases, crisis, and wellbeing. Pathologization and individualistic analysis are its core (Kumar et al, 2021;Sharpe and Davison, 2021). For instance, Albrecht (2011) brought together eco-anxiety, ecoparalysis, solastalgia, and econostalgia as part of psychoterratic syndrome conditions by placing the bio-psycho-social responses to the negative changes brought about by the unknown dynamics of the Earth.…”

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Indigenous filmmaking practices: healing in times of climate crises

Ramirez-Loaiza

2023

Front. Clim.

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The psychological impacts of the climate crisis and its triggers can have long-lasting consequences for public mental health. Many indigenous communities have an in-depth understanding of these impacts, and some of their filmmakers have depicted them through their audiovisual work. By challenging colonial perspectives, these indigenous filmmakers offer invaluable insights into how communities might navigate into adaptation and recovery to cope with the challenges brought about by climate change. Unfortunately, audiovisual work has often been overlooked in climate-related disaster studies despite its significant contributions. Drawing on community-based feminism and the decolonial turn, I sought to explore the healing practices employed by communities in Upper Xingu, Brazil, through the practice of indigenous filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro. To achieve this, I drew on audiovisual analysis of Takumã Kuikuro’s documentaries and records (short videos) from the decolonial panorama. Additionally, I conducted semi-structured interviews with the filmmaker and three members of the People’s Palace Projects, who have worked closely with Takumã, culminating in a validation meeting. I highlight three key findings for this article: (i) healing through rituals as esthetic and ethical-sacred practices within the territory, (ii) bodies in collectivism, and (iii) cascading effects on healing audiences: weaving networks from reciprocities. In seeking a discussion of the findings, I contend that there is an inextricable bond between the community-based healing responses to the climate crisis shown by Takumã’s lenses and the Politics of the Bodies proposed by the Colombian philosopher Laura Quintana, allowing us to frame the decolonial understanding of healing as a political and collective action both within and with territories. Therefore, placing the indigenous cinema as a source of knowledge will enable us to bring community-based discussions that disaster risk reduction has neglected due to its embeddedness in epistemic injustice, from which at-risk communities have been predominantly seen as incapable of knowing their geographies. The rituals and collaborative practices grounded in reciprocity demonstrate forms of adaptation in which mental health becomes a collective responsibility woven into nature at its core.

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Feeling solastalgia: A study of the effects of changing climate in rural India

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

Eco-emotions and Psychoterratic Syndromes: Reshaping Mental Health Assessment Under Climate Change

Eco-emotions and Psychoterratic Syndromes: Reshaping Mental Health Assessment Under Climate Change

Looking at Emotions to Understand Responses to Environmental Challenges

Indigenous filmmaking practices: healing in times of climate crises

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