Learning to live with climate change : from anxiety to transformation / Blanche Verlie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verlie, Blanche, author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge focus on environment and sustainability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Human beings--Effect of climate on.

Human beings.

Communication in social action.

Physical Description:

viii, 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This book presents an increased understanding and appreciation of how interconnected climate and humans are and offers strategies for coping and adapting to the distressing realities of climate change. In this innovative and empowering study, Blanche Verlie draws on more-than-human and affect theory to argue that if we are to become climate change responsible, we need to learn to 'live-with' climate change and achieve an increased appreciation of the interconnected nature of existence. Engaging with ethnographic case study research from an undergraduate course on climate change in Melbourne and the ongoing School Strikes 4 Climate, the book explores the cultural and sociological dimensions of climate change grief and distress. Focusing specifically on young people, Verlie examines the impact this grief can have on personal identity and relationships and offers pragmatic guidance for making sense of, responding to and living with climate change, without reasserting a domineering, individualistic worldview. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental sociology, cultural studies and environmental psychology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Climate is living-with

2. Feeling the climate crisis

3. Encountering climate anxiety

4. Witnessing multiple climate realities

5. Storying climate collectives

6. Conclusion: Bearing worlds.

Notes:

"Routledge Focus"--from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Verlie, Blanche, Learning to live with climate change

ISBN:

9780367441258

036744125X

9781032073668

1032073667

OCLC:

1243013634

Publisher Number:

99988321831