Palgrave Macmillan | Climate Psychology: On Indifference To Disaster (2019 EN)

Author: Paul Hoggett (Editor)
Full Title: Climate Psychology: On Indifference To Disaster
Publisher: ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (June 1, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 9783030117412 (978-3-030-11741-2), 9783030117405 (978-3-030-11740-5)
ISBN-10: 3030117413, 3030117405
Pages: 270
Language: English
Genre: Popular Science in Psychology
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 26.74 €


This book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society’s failure to respond to climate change. It analyses the non-rational dimensions of our collective paralysis in the face of worsening climate change and environmental destruction, exploring the emotional, ethical, social, organizational and cultural dynamics to blame for this global lack of action.

The book features eleven research projects from four different countries and is divided in two parts, the first highlighting novel methodologies, the second presenting new findings. Contributors to the first part show how a ‘deep listening’ approach to research can reveal the anxieties, tensions, contradictions, frames and narratives that contribute to people’s experiences, and the many ways climate change and other environmental risks are imagined through metaphor, imagery and dreams.

Using detailed interview extracts drawn from politicians, scientists and activists as well as ordinary people, the second part of the book examines the many different ways in which we both avoid and square up to this gathering disaster, and the many faces of alarm, outrage, denial and indifference this involves.


Overview:
✓ Explores practical implications for one of the most burning cultural and political issues of our time
✓ Questions how to best understand peoples' responses to climate change
✓ Argues that climate change requires a dedicated and specialist research methodology
✓ Contends that mainstream psychological focus on behaviour, attitudes and individual actions is not the way forward in climate change studies

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