Hope in the time of hopelessness

Nordic Psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 14

Опубликована: Март 30, 2025

We live in a time of multiple crisis and extreme loss. The beginning the twenty-first century has been marked by financial crises, pandemic, addition to new endless wars. Above beyond it all, ecological changed way humans think themselves, world, future. How do we on when very prospect future is uncertain? raise generations become independent citizens world if cannot promise where such exists? Drawing an ethnographic interview-based study young climate activists Green Youth Movement (Den grønne ungdomsbevægelse) Denmark, this article explores role hope for our dealings with crises general, particular. I argue that genuine hope—distinguished from naïve optimism, presupposes confrontation limitations, intimately related grief, action care.

Язык: Английский

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Ecological Grief, Religious Coping, and Spiritual Crises: Exploring Eco-Spiritual Grief

Pastoral Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Июль 25, 2024

Abstract Ecological grief results from human-caused environmental changes. While it is a growing subject of study, research on the relationship between and spirituality/religion remains scarce. This article explores topic by focusing frameworks religious coping (complicated) spiritual grief. Religion spirituality can be resources for with ecological grief, but there also difficulties which cause grief: crises about beliefs, estrangement one’s community, disruption in practice. The author proposes new term combinations eco-spiritual Frameworks (the RCOPE) Inventory Complicated Spiritual Grief, ICSG) are analyzed relation to argues that elements these useful spirituality, modifications should made this particular topic. Research avoid individualizing tendencies, strong anthropocentrism, narrow focus monotheism. Some items RCOPE ICSG especially relevant monotheism, they could broadened include other forms spirituality. Themes nuanced matter charted. anyone who wants explore intersections as well theology psychology, have special relevance researchers (pastoral) psychologists.

Язык: Английский

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Engaging with Climate Grief, Guilt, and Anger in Religious Communities

Religions, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15(9), С. 1052 - 1052

Опубликована: Авг. 29, 2024

Climate change evokes many kinds of emotions, which have an impact on people’s behavior. This article focuses three major climate emotions—guilt, grief, and anger—and other closely related emotional phenomena, such as anxiety/distress. The explores ways in these emotions could be engaged with constructively religious communities, a certain emphasis Christian, monotheistic, Buddhist communities. These communities special resources for engaging guilt but they often profound difficulty working constructive anger. can affect each are probed, the complex dynamics given attention. Based work psychologists Tara Brach Miriam Greenspan, four-step method is proposed discussed: self-reflection, exploration various forms contextualization, creative application methods to channel energies emotions. draws from interdisciplinary research eco-emotions, religion ecology studies, psychology.

Язык: Английский

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Emotions related to climate change, and their impact on environmental behaviour

Journal of Cleaner Production, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 144659 - 144659

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Conflicts of interest in environmental and sustainability education

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 14

Опубликована: Март 6, 2025

It is often assumed that young people are concerned about sustainable development and a future, although this not always evident when teaching complex issues morally politically value-laden. This study uses ethnographic methods, including participatory classroom observations group interviews, to understand the conflicts of interest expressed in people's dialogue on sustainability issues. Three main identified context: between self others, present centre periphery. article raises questions how teachers can manage didactically encourage more pluralistic and, ultimately, engagement

Язык: Английский

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A narrative exploration of how clinical psychologists deal with the climate and ecological emergency

Cogent Mental Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 4(1), С. 1 - 33

Опубликована: Март 7, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Ecological Grief and the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement

Religions, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(4), С. 411 - 411

Опубликована: Март 24, 2025

The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (DPM, by Stroebe and Schut) is a well-known framework in contemporary grief research counselling. It depicts how mourners oscillate between various tasks reactions. There need to engage more the intense feelings loss (Loss-Oriented tasks), but also other things life parts adjustment process after (Restoration-Oriented tasks). This interdisciplinary article applies ecological extends it collective levels. While DPM has been broadened family dynamics, many subjects are even require mourning from whole communities or societies. Religious can play an important role this. provides new application called DPM-EcoSocial discusses named it, which ultimately based on researcher Worden’s work. particularities discussed, such as complications caused guilt climate change denial, attribution differences about disasters, nonfinite losses. Grief grievance intimately connected grief, (religious) have for remembrance, mourning, witness. processes lead meaning reconstruction, transilience, adversarial growth.

Язык: Английский

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Ecological Grief Observed from a Distance

Philosophies, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 9(2), С. 37 - 37

Опубликована: Март 14, 2024

The paper discusses ecological grief as a particular affective phenomenon. First, it offers an overview of several philosophical accounts grief, acknowledging the heterogeneity and complexity experience that responds to personal points importance, concern one’s identity; loss triggering represents blow these. I then argue is equally varied personal: responding what grieving person understands severe enough present intelligibly degradation her life world, their meaningfulness or even sustainability. More specifically, both may manifest in eroded sense future space which one would invest oneself with plans, projects, ideas, desires, endeavours. On other hand, is, some cases, conceptualised having embedded inherent possibility come closure “move on” (e.g., by marrying again), while intelligibility overcoming (replacing) be, depending on its scale, severely limited. this erosion need not take shape paralysing sadness but rather disruption taking options projecting into seriously real.

Язык: Английский

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Emplacing Ecological Grief in Last Chance Tourism: Cryospheric Change and Travel in the Arctic

Tourism and Hospitality, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5(2), С. 506 - 520

Опубликована: Июнь 14, 2024

Last Chance Tourism (LCT) is an increasingly popular phenomenon whereby tourists seek encounters with vanishing landscapes, cultures, and endangered species. However, there are concerns that it not sufficiently ecologically informed, has a large carbon footprint, may put further pressure on vulnerable ecosystems communities. This review specifically focuses the Arctic, which major global frontier for LCT at forefront of disruptive accelerating climate change. It draws theoretical insights from Ecological Grief concept to chart new research focus as well pathway share empathy, concern, sorrow between scientists, communities, visitors. Key literature sources were selected international scientific journals monographs. The findings study (i) Arctic cryosphere life-sustaining entity changes in its mechanisms currently threaten unique ecologies culture region (ii) must be attentive emotive accounts loss grief associated cryospheric change emplace both human non-human voices narrative. These relevant researchers, tourism planners, conscious travelers who prioritize destination sustainability.

Язык: Английский

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Emplacing Ecological Grief in Last Chance Tourism: Cryospheric Change and Travel in the Arctic

Опубликована: Апрель 8, 2024

Last Chance Tourism (LCT) is an increasingly popular phenomenon whereby tourists seek encounters with vanishing landscapes, cultures, and endangered species. However, there are concerns that it not sufficiently ecologically informed, has a large carbon footprint, may put further pressure on vulnerable ecosystems communities. The Arctic emerged as major global frontier for LCT, at the same time forefront of disruptive accelerating climate change. Here review important LCT literature combined key insights from concept Ecological Grief, which calls explicitly mourning losses formerly rich species diversity, traditional knowledge. While currently insufficient engagement grief in Grief can provide new research focus well pathway to share empathy, concern, sorrow between scientists, communities, visitors—thereby offering alternative way critically reflect upon our connections cryosphere Anthropocene.

Язык: Английский

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