As environmental destruction becomes more extreme around the planet, the way humans experience the natural world is changing, giving rise to more frequent and intense experiences of eco-anxiety. Not simply personal or social, eco-anxiety is distributed across the relationships that humans have with the life, land, air, and water of Earth. This anthology presents international and interdisciplinary perspectives on eco-anxiety, with attention to two of the most
prominent sources of eco-anxiety today: pandemics, specifically with regards to COVID-19, and the climate crisis. From the microscopic scale of viruses to the macroscopic scale of Earth's atmosphere,
instability in natural systems is causing unprecedented forms of psychological distress, including anxiety and related emotional or affective states like grief, anger, guilt, and depression. Eco-Anxiety and Pandemic Distress both builds upon and moves beyond the latest research in environmental psychology, conservation psychology, and clinical psychology. Dominant research paradigms in these areas rely primarily on experimental and observational methodologies that
analyze quantitative data. In contrast, this book focuses on sophisticated traditions of social and cultural psychology in dialogue with other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The result is a
nuanced understanding of the human experience of confronting eco-anxiety, offering critical insights into the subjective worlds of individuals as they grapple with the intertwined existential threats of the climate crisis and pandemics.
As environmental destruction becomes more extreme around the planet, the way humans experience the natural world is changing, giving rise to more frequent and intense experiences of eco-anxiety. Not simply personal or social, eco-anxiety is distributed across the relationships that humans have with the life, land, air, and water of Earth. This anthology presents international and interdisciplinary perspectives on eco-anxiety, with attention to two of the most
prominent sources of eco-anxiety today: pandemics, specifically with regards to COVID-19, and the climate crisis. From the microscopic scale of viruses to the macroscopic scale of Earth's atmosphere,
instability in natural systems is causing unprecedented forms of psychological distress, including anxiety and related emotional or affective states like grief, anger, guilt, and depression. Eco-Anxiety and Pandemic Distress both builds upon and moves beyond the latest research in environmental psychology, conservation psychology, and clinical psychology. Dominant research paradigms in these areas rely primarily on experimental and observational methodologies that
analyze quantitative data. In contrast, this book focuses on sophisticated traditions of social and cultural psychology in dialogue with other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The result is a
nuanced understanding of the human experience of confronting eco-anxiety, offering critical insights into the subjective worlds of individuals as they grapple with the intertwined existential threats of the climate crisis and pandemics.
Introduction: Eco-Anxiety, Climate Change, and the Coronavirus
Panu Pihkala
Part 1. Cultivating Connection and Resilience
Chapter 1. Cultivating Belonging: Healing Defensive Anxiety in
Times of Collective Trauma
Jan Edl Stein
Chapter 2. From Eco-Anxiety to Eco-Resilience: Toward a Psychology
of Care
Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist
Chapter 3. Walking, Wilderness, and Exposure: Learning from
Thoreau's Episode on Katahdin
Christopher C. Kirby
Chapter 4. Self-Quarantine: Deepening Natural Encounter During
COVID-19
Elektra Mercutio
Chapter 5. Setting Up for Practice with Eco-Conscious Clients
Jamie Keaton Jones
Part 2. Sociology and Cultural Psychology
Chapter 6. Eco-Anxiety as a Global Affect
Jaouad Achtitah and Said Mentak
Chapter 7. Eco-Anxiety in a Risk Society: A Sociological
Perspective
Leonard A. Steverson
Chapter 8. The Complex Role of Anxiety in Public Engagement:
Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis for Climate Communications
Rhéa Rocque, Laura Cameron, and Ian Mauro
Chapter 9. Behavior Change During COVID-19: A Matter of Life and
Death?
Filia Garivaldis and Muhammad Iqbal
Part 3. Diverse Global Responses
Chapter 10. The House of Man: Sheltering in the Anthropocene
Susan Haris and Bharati Puri
Chapter 11. Adapting to Eco-Anxiety: Experiences from Zambia
Fred Moonga
Chapter 12. Psychiatric Ward Lockdown in Latin America: Experiences
from the Coronavirus Pandemic
Juan Evangelista Tercero Gaitán Buitrago
Chapter 13. Telepsychology as the Primary Mental Health Care
Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Emmanuel Villoria Hernani
Chapter 14. Sounding the Environmental Benefits of the COVID-19
Pandemic in Southern Nigeria
Olusegun Stephen Titus
Douglas A. Vakoch is an American astrobiologist, search for
extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) researcher, psychologist, and
president of METI International, a nonprofit research and
educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional
signals to extraterrestrial civilizations. He has edited over a
dozen books in SETI, astrobiology, the psychology of space
exploration, and ecocriticism. He is general editor of two book
series in
ecocriticism and in the intersection of space and society. Vakoch
has appeared widely on television and radio as a commentator on
SETI and astrobiology. He is an emeritus professor of clinical
psychology at the California
Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
Sam Mickey is an adjunct professor in the Theology and Religious
Studies department and the Environmental Studies program at the
University of San Francisco. He is the Book Review Editor for the
journal Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, a
Research Associate for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and
an author of several books exploring intersections of philosophy,
religion, and ecology, including On the Verge of a Planetary
Civilization: A
Philosophy of Integral Ecology (2014), and Coexistentialism and the
Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency (Lexington Books,
2016).
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