Ecological Grief, Hope, and Creative Forms of Resilience
A Creative Practice Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16964575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamara Borovica (0000-0002-7356-9236, La Trobe University, corresponding author), Jacina Leong (La Trobe University), Jen Rae (0000-0001-9260-9443, Australian National University), L Hjorth (0000-0002-4793-3233, La Trobe University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2451-3474 • E-ISSN: 2451-3474 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/culture-2025-0069 |
| OpenAlex | W7084609042 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
With the effects of the climate emergency increasingly shaping our daily lives, feelings of ecological distress – particularly ecogrief and anxiety – have become palpable. In this article, we focus on these affective responses and examine how creative practice collaborations are curating possibilities for hope and resilience. We argue for the importance of such creative engagement, as ecological distress can lead to paralysis, nihilism, or despair, making it imperative to explore how creative practices open pathways for collective healing and actionable hope in the face of crisis. Following Lesley Head’s (2016. Hope and grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human-nature relations . Taylor and Francis Group) proposition that grief and hope are intrinsically entwined – hope as an embodied act within the affective fabric of everyday life – we consider how these emotional registers are navigated through artistic and collaborative processes. Increasingly, contemporary practitioners are turning to creative methods to make space for emotional complexity and to cultivate new strategies for connecting grief with hope. This article brings together insights from the environmental humanities and creative practice research to consider how such approaches can support resilience and social change. Through examples where creative practice operates as method, approach, and intervention, we explore the affective terrain of climate justice, arguing that creativity and art are essential for fostering empathetic engagement and imagining more hopeful, liveable futures
Cognitive reframing · Creativity · Embodied cognition · Everyday life · Feeling · Grief · Psychological resilience · Stern · Data Analysis with R · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
Staying with the Trouble
Mourning Nature
Educators’ experiences and strategies for responding to ecological distress
Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Learning to Live with Climate Change
Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene
Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss
Facing the limit of resilience
Loss and Climate Change
Design
Deconstructing grief
Grief literacy
For still possible cities
Listening to place, practising relationality
Fish, Kin and Hope
On the Need for Methods Beyond Proceduralism
Composting (in) the gender studies classroom
Climate Change 2022 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Restorying the self, restoring place
From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin Study
A manifesto for shadow places
Troubling grief
Storytelling in a digital age
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |