Against Catastrophism
eBook - ePub

Against Catastrophism

Climate Change, Pandemics, and Hope for the Future

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Against Catastrophism

Climate Change, Pandemics, and Hope for the Future

About this book

Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.

Bringing together contributors from psychoanalysis, economics, anthropology, and gastroenterology, this book explores themes including fossil fuel culture, social movements like Extinction Rebellion, the COVID-19 pandemic, media messaging, and the future of food supply chains. By assessing the value of a constant barrage of information about catastrophes and considering the need for a containing environment, the chapters explore how we can avoid endorsing a closed-off vision of the future and instead unlock possibilities. The book concludes with a discussion of optimism, radical hope, and how we can put forward a new narrative on nature.

Against Catastrophism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists, food scientists, environmentalists, ecologists, politicians, and communication experts.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040335086
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Preface
  10. 1. Hope in a Changing World between Individual Creativity and Collective Working Through
  11. 2. Radical Hope
  12. 3. A Changing World: Psychoanalysis between Catastrophe and Hope
  13. 4. Catastrophic Fossil Culture and Other Desires of Relatedness
  14. 5. Illusory Immunity and Actual Inhumanity
  15. 6. Catastrophe versus Catastrophic Change. Between Psychoanalysis and Art
  16. 7. Climate Change and Adolescence: A Dangerous Collusion of Internal and External Catastrophe
  17. 8. Birth is not Destiny
  18. 9. The Food of Tomorrow
  19. 10. Pushing Back on Catastrophism: The Case for a New Nature Narrative
  20. 11. Catastrophism and Media Catastrophic Images
  21. Index