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Living Through a Changing Climate: Stress, Trauma, and Gendered Resilience Among Women in Coastal and Northern Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is reshaping everyday life in Ghana through coastal erosion, flooding, erratic rainfall, water scarcity, extreme heat, and agricultural insecurity. This study examines how these changes produce stress, trauma, and gendered resilience among women in Salakope and Choggu Yapalsi, two climate‐vulnerable communities in coastal and ...
Jacob Kwakye
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti, Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos   +2 more
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Risks of concealing environmental degradation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current practice seeks to conceal the visual impact of land‐use change (i.e., development). Six percent of development impact assessments in Australia and 14% of the World Bank's assessments recommend visual impact mitigation. This mitigation results in, for example, vegetated buffer strips alongside cleared agricultural areas and earthen ...
Matt W. Hayward, Kaya Klop‐Toker, Salim Momtaz, Eliza Payne, Louisa Rebec, Robert J. Scanlon, Craig M. Shuttleworth, Nick Valentine, Andrea S. Griffin   +8 more
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SOLASTALGIA IN THE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE: TOWARD A FRAMEWORK FOR ECOLOGICAL GRIEF IN RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES

Ecology, Human, Society
Background. Four decades of Chernobyl research have produced substantial knowledge of radiological dispersal, ecosystem transformation, and health consequences, yet the subjective experience of people who inhabited or were expelled from a radioactively ...
Serdar ÇELİK, Mehmet Tahsin ŞAHİN, Furkan GENİŞYÜREK   +2 more
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Green Medical Humanities

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2022
This article concerns the relationship between the environment and trauma-like states of mental crisis—a relationship that invites a merging of the concerns of eco-criticism and medical humanities, i.e., a green medical humanities.
Jens Kirk
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Embodied ethnographies: Entanglements in the Anthropocene

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Entanglements in the Anthropocene’ is an embodied exploration of the intersections of place, dance and lens‐based practices (photography and video). Lens‐based works discussed here result from collaborative research projects and grow from a shared curiosity about aesthetics in the Anthropocene and how to express entangled relationships with ...
Karen N. Barbour, Rodrigo Hill
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SOLASTALGIA DAN PARADOKSAL UPAYA PENYELAMATAN LINGKUNGAN PADA TIGA CERPEN MERAYU LANGIT (2017) [PDF]

, 2022
Pemikiran antroposentris mengakibatkan munculnya kerusakan lingkungan. Seringkali, teknologi menjadi instrumen ketamakan sekaligus pemusnahan manusia. Kerusakan sebuah tempat (place pathology) menghilangkan rasa nyaman (solace) seseorang dalam berumah (A.
Rusdiarti, Suma Riella, Dibaj, Farah
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“We Are the Future”: Solastalgia, Climate Anxiety, and Posthuman Agency in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne

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In this article, I am interested in exploring issues of solastalgia and climate anxiety and how overcoming these emotions leads to the establishment of posthuman agency in Jeff VanderMeer’s ontologically multifaceted novel Borne (2017).
Jasmine Sharma
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Solastalgia in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World: Living in a Watery Earth No Longer Home

Nalans, 2021
James Graham Ballard (1930-2009) is known for his fictions of environmentally devastated landscapes caused by technological excess and non-ecological attitudes of humankind. In many of his fictional works, which are set in an ecologically disturbed world
Ayşe Şžensoy
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