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Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject Beyond Behaviour Change

:	Matthew Adams
:	Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject Beyond Behaviour Change
:	Palgrave Macmillan
:	9781137351609
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:	CHF 54.10
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:	Theoretische Psychologie
:	English

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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.

	Dedication	6
	Acknowledgements	8
	Contents	9
	1: Introduction: The Walls Are Closing In	11
	Introduction	11
	Chapter Guide	14
	Notes	17
	References	18
	2: Welcome to the Anthropocene	21
	Introduction	21
	Interdependence	22
	Scientific Observation and Modelling	24
	Greenhouse Gases	26
	Impacts	28
	Mitigation: Where Do We Start?	32
	Scientising the Anthropocene	35
	Addressing the Psychosocial	38
	References	42
	3: Ecological Crisis Through a Social Lens	49
	Introduction	49
	Communicating the Anthropocene	51
	Psychology and Behaviour Change	53
	Six Problems for a Psychology of Environmentally Significant Behaviour	55
	Underestimating the Nature and Scope of Change Required	56
	Depoliticizing the Ecological Crisis	57
	Ignoring the Power of Conflicting Interests	58
	Reifying Citizens as Passive Subjects	59
	Fixing Behaviour in Stasis	59
	Neglecting the Importance of Social Context	60
	Out of the Shadows?	61
	References	68
	4: Searching for a New Normal: Social Practices and Sustainability	77
	Introduction	77
	Social Practices	78
	Elements and Path Dependence	81
	Accounting for Change: Competition and Collaboration	83
	Social Practice and Sustainability	85
	Informing Interventions	87
	Re-crafting Practices	88
	Substituting Practices	89
	Interlocking Practices	90
	References	95
	5: Power, Nature and Meaning: Critiquing a Social Practice Approach to Sustainability	99
	Introduction	99
	Power	101
	Nature	107
	Meaning	109
	Moving on	112
	References	114
	6: Managing Terror: Mortality Salience, Ontological Insecurity and Ecocide	119
	Introduction	119
	Ontological (In)security	120
	Ecological Crisis and Ontological Insecurity	122
	Terror Management Theory and Mortality Salience	123
	Extending Death Accessibility	127
	Beyond Terror	129
	References	133
	7: Knowing and Not Knowing About Anthropogenic Ecological Crisis	139
	Introduction	139
	Defence Mechanisms	140
	Defence Mechanisms in the Anthropocene	141
	Ways of Knowing and Not Knowing at the Same Time	143
	Literal Denial	143
	Interpretive Denial	144
	Implicatory Denial	145
	References	149
	8: Building a Movement Against Ourselves? Socially Organized Defence Mechanisms	155
	Introduction	155
	After Cohen	156
	Disavowal, Splitting and Projection	157
	Proximal and Distal Defences	158
	Climate Change and the Dual Process Model	159
	Transference Idealization	161
	Self-Esteem and Consumerism	163
	Outgroup Antagonism	166
	Bolstered Worldview	168
	Organizational Dynamics	170
	Containing the Unbearable	171
	Creating Support Structures	174
	Reflections on Knowing and Not Knowing	176
	References	179
	9: ‘Its All Folded into Normalcy’: Narratives and Inaction	185
	Introduction	185
	We Need Stories	188
	Master Narratives and Anthropogenic Ecological Degradation	193
	‘It’s All Folded into Normalcy’: Consumerism as Narrative Vehicle for the Social Organization of Denial	197
	Apocalypse When?	198
	Shop Till You Drop: Consumerism, Narrative and Terror Management	201
	Socially Organized Terror?	203
	Experience Exceeds Narrative	205
	Looking for Alternative Narratives	207
	References	209
	10: Embodied Entanglements: Exploring Trans-Species	218
	Introduction	218
	Trans-Species Psychology and Speciesism	220
	From the Fantastic to the Commonsensical?	222
	Becoming with	223
	Capacious Relationality	226
	An Occasional Touch of Otherness	229
	Encountering Ravens	231
	Trans-Species Identifications as a Basis for Sustainable Practices	232
	A Sense of Belonging	233
	Attending to Other Ways of Being	235
	References	237
	11: Narrative Foreclosed? Towards a Psychosocial Research Agenda	244
	Looking Back	244
	Narrative Foreclosure: Towards a Psychosocial Research Agenda	247
	When Will the Story End? Narrative Foreclosure and Ecological Crisis	250
	Escape Routes	251
	Beyond the Climate Change Imaginary	253
	The Contours of What is Possible	257
	References	259
	References	263
	Index	279