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Anthropocene psychology : being human in a more -than-human world.
Author
Adams, Matthew, 1972-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2020.
Description
1 online resource (211 pages).
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Subject(s)
Human ecology
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Psychological aspects
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Series
Concepts for critical psychology.
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Summary note
This ground-breaking book critically extends the psychological project, seeking to investigate the relations between human and more-than-human worlds against the backdrop of the Anthropocene by emphasising the significance of encounter, interaction and relationships. Interdisciplinary environmental theorist Matthew Adams draws inspiration from a wealth of ideas emerging in human-animal studies, anthrozoology, multi-species ethnography and posthumanism, offering a framing of collective anthropogenic ecological crises to provocatively argue that the Anthropocene is also an invitation -to become conscious of the ways in which human and nonhuman are inextricably connected. Through a series of strange encounters between human and nonhuman worlds, Adams argues for the importance of cultivating attentiveness to the specific and situated ways in which the fates of multiple species are bound together in the Anthropocene. Throughout the book this argument is putinto practice, incorporating everything from Pavlov's dogs, broiler chickens, urban trees, grazing sheep and beached whales, to argue that the Anthropocene can be good to think with, conducive to a seeing ourselves and our place in the world with a renewed sense of connection, responsibility and love. Building on developments in feminist and social theory, anthropology, ecopsychology, environmental psychology, (post)humanities, psychoanalysis and phenomenology, this is fascinating reading for academics and students in the field of critical psychology, environmental psychology, and human-animal studies.
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Contents
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Frontispiece
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Welcome to the Anthropocene: A parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity
Introduction
Deep time
A parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity
Summary of chapters
Notes
References
2. Why Pavlov's dogs still matter: Animals, experimental psychology and the Anthropocene invitation
Contemporary retellings: 'hard-set laws' and a 'comfortable recovery'
The 'animal turn', multi-species scholarship and psychology
Chronic experiments in the kingdom of dogs
Psychic secretions and conditional reflexes
A subject-transforming dance
The tower of silence
The temperament of a dog
Reversing the moral abandonment of being
Anthropocene psychology?
Finally: recognising relationships
3. Eating animals in the Anthropocene: The broiler chicken, speciesism and vegatopia
Anthropocene chicken
Industrialised animal agriculture
The never explicitly stated fact
Resolving dissonance becomes habitual, goes viral, gets outsourced
Speciesism and beyond
Disclosing cultural secrets of systemic violence
Vegatopia?
Killing without making killable
Veganism as decolonial act?
Finally
4. Crafting new human-animal attachments: Do Anthropoceneans dream of eclectic sheep?
Human-sheep histories
Enclosure, colonialism and industrial revolution
How we see sheep
Situating human-sheep encounters
The sheep: a pen portrait
Learning to looker
Enacting the dream of a flourishing multispecies community?
5. Heartbreaking losses in real places: Losing and finding solace in the Anthropocene
Introduction: bearing small dispatches.
Tonight I've said my goodbyes
Heartbreaking losses in real places
Solastalgia: the home become suddenly unhomely
Colonialism and the imposed transformations of place
Anthropocene as invitation
I am the river, the river is me
Finally: on finding solace
6. Between the whale and the kāuri tree: Multi-species encounters, indigenous knowledge and ethical relationality in the Anthropocene
Beaching whales
Indigenising the Anthropocene
Tools for employing Indigenous ontologies
The porosity of boundaries: whales and Maori
A sign from the sea?
Kauri dieback
Anthropocene psychology: thinking with the forest?
Between the ocean and the forest
Finally: Anthropocene stories
7. Afterword
Index.
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ISBN
1-351-33639-8
0-203-70369-3
1-351-33640-1
OCLC
1137858548
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