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Dedication |
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Acknowledgements |
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Contents |
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1: Introduction: The Walls Are Closing In |
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Introduction |
11 |
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Chapter Guide |
14 |
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Notes |
17 |
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References |
18 |
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2: Welcome to the Anthropocene |
21 |
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Introduction |
21 |
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Interdependence |
22 |
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Scientific Observation and Modelling |
24 |
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Greenhouse Gases |
26 |
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Impacts |
28 |
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Mitigation: Where Do We Start? |
32 |
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Scientising the Anthropocene |
35 |
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Addressing the Psychosocial |
38 |
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References |
42 |
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3: Ecological Crisis Through a Social Lens |
49 |
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Introduction |
49 |
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Communicating the Anthropocene |
51 |
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Psychology and Behaviour Change |
53 |
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Six Problems for a Psychology of Environmentally Significant Behaviour |
55 |
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Underestimating the Nature and Scope of Change Required |
56 |
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Depoliticizing the Ecological Crisis |
57 |
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Ignoring the Power of Conflicting Interests |
58 |
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Reifying Citizens as Passive Subjects |
59 |
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Fixing Behaviour in Stasis |
59 |
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Neglecting the Importance of Social Context |
60 |
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Out of the Shadows? |
61 |
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References |
68 |
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4: Searching for a New Normal: Social Practices and Sustainability |
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Introduction |
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Social Practices |
78 |
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Elements and Path Dependence |
81 |
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Accounting for Change: Competition and Collaboration |
83 |
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Social Practice and Sustainability |
85 |
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Informing Interventions |
87 |
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Re-crafting Practices |
88 |
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Substituting Practices |
89 |
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Interlocking Practices |
90 |
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References |
95 |
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5: Power, Nature and Meaning: Critiquing a Social Practice Approach to Sustainability |
99 |
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Introduction |
99 |
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Power |
101 |
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Nature |
107 |
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Meaning |
109 |
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Moving on |
112 |
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References |
114 |
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6: Managing Terror: Mortality Salience, Ontological Insecurity and Ecocide |
119 |
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Introduction |
119 |
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Ontological (In)security |
120 |
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Ecological Crisis and Ontological Insecurity |
122 |
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Terror Management Theory and Mortality Salience |
123 |
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Extending Death Accessibility |
127 |
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Beyond Terror |
129 |
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References |
133 |
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7: Knowing and Not Knowing About Anthropogenic Ecological Crisis |
139 |
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Introduction |
139 |
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Defence Mechanisms |
140 |
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Defence Mechanisms in the Anthropocene |
141 |
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Ways of Knowing and Not Knowing at the Same Time |
143 |
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Literal Denial |
143 |
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Interpretive Denial |
144 |
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Implicatory Denial |
145 |
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References |
149 |
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8: Building a Movement Against Ourselves? Socially Organized Defence Mechanisms |
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Introduction |
155 |
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After Cohen |
156 |
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Disavowal, Splitting and Projection |
157 |
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Proximal and Distal Defences |
158 |
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Climate Change and the Dual Process Model |
159 |
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Transference Idealization |
161 |
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Self-Esteem and Consumerism |
163 |
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Outgroup Antagonism |
166 |
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Bolstered Worldview |
168 |
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Organizational Dynamics |
170 |
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Containing the Unbearable |
171 |
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Creating Support Structures |
174 |
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Reflections on Knowing and Not Knowing |
176 |
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References |
179 |
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9: ‘Its All Folded into Normalcy’: Narratives and Inaction |
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Introduction |
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We Need Stories |
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Master Narratives and Anthropogenic Ecological Degradation |
193 |
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‘It’s All Folded into Normalcy’: Consumerism as Narrative Vehicle for the Social Organization of Denial |
197 |
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Apocalypse When? |
198 |
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Shop Till You Drop: Consumerism, Narrative and Terror Management |
201 |
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Socially Organized Terror? |
203 |
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Experience Exceeds Narrative |
205 |
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Looking for Alternative Narratives |
207 |
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References |
209 |
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10: Embodied Entanglements: Exploring Trans-Species |
218 |
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Introduction |
218 |
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Trans-Species Psychology and Speciesism |
220 |
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From the Fantastic to the Commonsensical? |
222 |
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Becoming with |
223 |
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Capacious Relationality |
226 |
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An Occasional Touch of Otherness |
229 |
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Encountering Ravens |
231 |
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Trans-Species Identifications as a Basis for Sustainable Practices |
232 |
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A Sense of Belonging |
233 |
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Attending to Other Ways of Being |
235 |
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References |
237 |
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11: Narrative Foreclosed? Towards a Psychosocial Research Agenda |
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Looking Back |
244 |
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Narrative Foreclosure: Towards a Psychosocial Research Agenda |
247 |
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When Will the Story End? Narrative Foreclosure and Ecological Crisis |
250 |
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Escape Routes |
251 |
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Beyond the Climate Change Imaginary |
253 |
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The Contours of What is Possible |
257 |
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References |
259 |
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References |
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Index |
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