Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-Than-Human World

ISBN-13: 9781138570252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Matthew Adams

Opis

This book seeks to investigate the relations between human and more-than-human worlds against the backdrop of the Anthropocene, examining the way in which the Anthropocene offers a framing of collective anthropogenic ecological crises and is an invitation to re-evaluate human influence and interaction with the world around us.

Spis treści

Preface  Chapter 1. Welcome to the Anthropocene: A parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity  Chapter 2. Why Pavlov’s dogs still matter: Animals, experimental psychology and the Anthropocene invitation  Chapter 3. Eating animals in the Anthropocene: the broiler chicken, speciesism and vegatopia  Chapter 4. Crafting new human-animal attachments: Do Anthropoceneans dream of eclectic sheep?  Chapter 5. Heartbreaking losses in real places: Losing and finding solace in the Anthropocene  Chapter 6. Between the whale and the kauri tree: multi-species encounters, indigenous knowledge and ethical relationality in the Anthropocene Afterword

O autorze

Matthew Adams is based in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK. His previous books include Ecological Crisis, Sustainability & the Psychosocial Subject (2016) and Self & Social Change (2007).