Earth Emotions
new words for a new world
$46.92
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2019
Summary
Feeling Earth: Navigating Emotions in a Changing World
As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.
Earth Emotions examines our p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501715228 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1501715224 |
| Author: | Glenn A. Albrecht |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Imprint: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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Albrecht offers a framework within which to understand and acknowledge the dissociation of humans from the living world. With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard.
(The Independent)In Earth Emotions, Albrecht seeks to provide a new lexicon of emotional terms. The purpose of these terms is twofold: first, to allow people make better sense of themselves and of their relationship with the planet; second, to encourage development of a more meaningful and optimistic outlook toward the planet.
(Choice)About The Author
Glenn A. Albrecht
Glenn A. Albrecht is an Australian environmental philosopher. He established the now widely used and accepted concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change. He retired from Murdoch University in 2014 as a Professor of Sustainability, and he is now an Honorary Associate in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.
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