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Subject(s)

• Human ecology—Psychological aspects [Browse]

Series

Concepts for critical psychology. [More in this series]

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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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