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Eco-anxiety among regional Australian youth with mental health problems: A qualitative study. [PDF]
Abstract Aim In Australia, climate‐related disasters disproportionately affect rural, regional and remote young people with effects ranging from severe flooding and catastrophic fires to unbearable heat and yet most studies on eco‐anxiety are based on reports by urban youth who do not have direct experiences of such impacts.
Boyd CP +5 more
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Adaptation, Activism, and the Looming Climate Disaster†
Abstract It is likely that the process of global climate change will continue to accelerate. There is a lack of political will to confront the problem and the consequences for humanity — including widespread suffering and institutional destabilization — will be disastrous. How should educators respond to a catastrophic future?
Bryan R. Warnick
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In this paper, we ask what schools and universities as place‐based public institutions can do to serve our youth in effectively responding to eco‐anxiety and building their capacities to learn to surf the unrelenting waves of change. To assist in this endeavour, we draw on the journeys that brought three young doctoral candidates to study geography ...
Julie Davidson +4 more
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Abstract This article argues that three prominent recent works of Los Angeles climate fiction—Maria Amparo Escandon's L.A. Weather (2021), Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun (2021) and Paul Beatty's The Sellout (2016)—generate a sense of planetary responsibility.
Edwin Gilson
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Decouplement: Commodity Geography of the Corpse
ABSTRACT This article examines the commodification of the human corpse from the point of view of its disposal. Whilst offering some analysis on the circulation and harvesting of repurposed human tissues, existing literature does not discuss how these are discarded.
Mark Shtanov
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ABSTRACT Contemporary ecocriticism and the American Gothic tradition share an investment in the psychic repression of terrors lurking just beyond the articulable. Amitav Ghosh's assertion that the history of fossil fuels is ‘a matter of embarrassment verging on the unspeakable’ and Timothy Morton's conception of ecocatastrophe as ‘an uncanny entity ...
Megan Cole
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Business ethics, law and zemiology: The criminology of social and environmental harm
Abstract This speculative paper introduces zemiology, an extension of radical criminology which explores why many ‘crimes’ are not ‘illegal’ by focussing on the problem of ‘social harm’. Zemiology insists that we should begin with social or environmental problems, and not allow their foreclosure by the distraction of whether a particular practice is ...
Robin Klimecki, Martin Parker
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ABSTRACT This article is concerned with the long poem doggerland (2021) by Ulrike Draesner, which we read here primarily in its relationship to the temporal disorder of the Anthropocene. We explore some specific manifestations of what we term ‘Anthropocene arrhythmia’ in Draesner's text, in particular through its engagement with linearity and ...
Nicola Thomas, Katie Ritson
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Navigating family systems in climate catastrophe: An open dialogue
Abstract As the climate crisis worsens, family therapy, like other therapeutic approaches, is beginning to ask: What must be done? In this article, we argue that we first need to ask ‘how do we as individuals understand and navigate the turmoil in which we find ourselves, together with the systems in which we are embedded?’ Drawing on the authors ...
James Dunk +6 more
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The Biological Horror of Capitalism
ABSTRACT Karl Marx's masterpiece, Capital Vol. 1, was published in 1867. In it, he outlines the structure and nature of capitalism, as he saw it in capitalism's early period. This Perspectives article briefly thematically analyses Capital Vol. 1 and argues that in its threat to human health and well‐being, Marx viewed capitalism as a system of horror ...
Myles Balfe
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