Description
| Product ID: | 9783030117405 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Studies in the Psychosocial |
| Title: | Climate Psychology |
| Subtitle: | On Indifference to Disaster |
| Authors: | Author: Paul Hoggett |
| Page Count: | 270 |
| Subjects: | Social, group or collective psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Climate change, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Climate change |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society’s failure to respond to climate change. This book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society''s failure to respond to climate change. It analyses the non-rational dimensions of our collective paralysis in the face of worsening climate change and environmental destruction, exploring the emotional, ethical, social, organizational and cultural dynamics to blame for this global lack of action. The book features eleven research projects from four different countries and is divided in two parts, the first highlighting novel methodologies, the second presenting new findings. Contributors to the first part show how a ''deep listening'' approach to research can reveal the anxieties, tensions, contradictions, frames and narratives that contribute to people''s experiences, and the many ways climate change and other environmental risks are imagined through metaphor, imagery and dreams. Using detailed interview extracts drawn from politicians, scientists and activists as well as ordinary people, the second part of the book examines the many different ways in which we both avoid and square up to this gathering disaster, and the many faces of alarm, outrage, denial and indifference this involves.
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| Imprint Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-06-12 |
