What is it about?
What does it mean to be fully human in this more-than-human world? This bibliographic compilation provides a broad, depthful survey of scholarly work on "Ecopsychology" - a transdisciplinary body of scholarship and application that focuses on the profound connection between humans and the natural world. Ecopsychological praxis invites us to (re)turn to life, exploring the many ways in which our (human) psychology is intimately connected to those spaces and places, rhythms and patterns, and beings and becomings of "nature" all around.
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Why is it important?
As humanity continues to grapple with the intertwingled, mounting ecopsychosociological crises of "modernity," "Ecopsychology" emerges as a transformative framework to profoundly reenliven, resignify, and restore our relationship with this more-than-human world. By bridging rigorous academic and scientific scholarship with compassionate, heartfelt collective action, this work challenges the destructive paradigm of human dominion over, and seperation from, the natural world, illuminating pathways of resilience and reconnection. More than a comprehensive survey, this resource represents a radical intellectual and practical toolkit. It reorients us away from a human-centric worldview and toward holistic, empathetic engagement with the complexity of life. In an age of devastation, fragmentation, and seperation, this collection provides a bright beacon of hope - illuminating edges of resistance, territories of change, and boundaries of possibility, inviting readers to see, feel, and experience "nature" with (re)new(ed) insight, appreciation, and unwavering, unconditional love.
Perspectives
This collection is more than an academic resource and scholarly contribution - in a world fractured by mounting environmental, psychological, and societal strain, "ecopsychology" is an ever-needed perspective and practice.
Dr. Matthew Ryan Jamnik
Florida State University
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This page is a summary of: Ecopsychology, November 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199828340-0328.
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