Mourning nature : hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief / edited by Ashlee Cunsolo, Karen Landman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunsolo, Ashlee, editor.

Landman, Karen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental degradation.

Ecological disturbances--Psychological aspects.

Ecological disturbances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston, [Ontario] ; London, [England] ; Chicago, [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation--challenges which require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature. Seeking to redress the silence around ecologically-based anxiety in academic and public domains, and to extend the concepts of sadness, anger, and loss, Mourning Nature creates a lexicon for the recognition and expression of emotions related to environmental degradation. Exploring the ways in which grief is experienced in numerous contexts, this groundbreaking collection draws on classical, philosophical, artistic, and poetic elements to explain environmental melancholia. Understanding that it is not just how we mourn, but what we mourn that defines us, the authors introduce a new perspective on politics, ethics, and praxis in conservation, sustainability, and connections to and relationships with nature. An ecological elegy for a time of climatic and environmental upheaval, Mourning Nature challenges readers to turn devastating events into an opportunity for positive change."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mourning the loss of wild soundscapes : a rationale for context when experiencing natural sound / Bernie Krause

Environmental mourning and the religious imagination / Nancy Menning

Mourning ourselves and/as our relatives : environment as kinship / Sebastian F. Braun

In the absence of sparrows / Helen Whale and Franklin Ginn

Where have all the Boronia gone? A posthumanist model of environmental mourning / John Charles Ryan

Losing my place : landscapes of depression / Catriona Sandilands

Climate change as the work of mourning / Ashlee Cunsolo

Auguries of elegy : the art and ethics of ecological grieving / Jessica Marion Barr

Making loss the centre : podcasting our environmental grief / Andrew Mark and Amanda Di Battista

Emotional solidarity : ecological emotional outlaws mourning environmental loss and empowering positive change / Lisa Kretz

Solastalgia and the new mourning / Glenn Albrecht.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-4933-1

0-7735-4935-8

0-7735-4936-6