Glenn A Albrecht
Biographic Data
| ID | 1726252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn A Albrecht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Albrecht |
| SIGNATURE | ALBRECHT G A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negating Solastalgia
I shall situate the emerging literature on eco-grief, climate grief, and ecological grief within the concept of solastalgia. I argue that the concept of solastalgia, as created and developed to the present, has strong affinities with the eco-grief literature. Solastalgia, the lived experience of negative environmental change, has much to offer those who seek clarification about the relationship between the state of human emotions and the state of…
Earth Emotions
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 positive and negative Earth emotions…
Conclusion
This chapter presents an overview and evaluation of all that has been covered in the previous chapters. The power of love in human affairs is given prominence as is the idea that love plus secular spirituality in the form of the Ghedeist is crucial to the future of all humanity. However, as has been the case in other chapters, this chapter has supported the unifying power of human love with the very best of the scientific knowledge gained from th…
Solastalgia
This chapter defines the author's term solastalgia as the lived experience of negative environmental change. The origins of this concept are explained via an account of the impact of coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales in Australia. The derivation of solastalgia from nostalgia (homesickness) and other roots is explained. The original research base of solastalgia is described as are the many applications of the concept world-…
A Sumbiography
A "sumbiography" is the term used in this book to explain the cumulative influences on a life, from childhood to adulthood, which have culminated in the author writing a book about the intimate relationships between humans, other forms of life, and nature. These influences include extended family and the nature writers and their narratives that have come to influence a life. A sumbiography explains how one attains the ability to feel, first hand,…
The Psychoterratic in the Symbiocene
The Symbiocene, or period of re-integration between humans and the rest of nature, is the second of the master themes used to define Earth emotions. The chapter constructs the idea of the Symbiocene from the latest scientific discoveries made about symbiosis and its centrality in maintaining life. Within this new meme, positive Earth emotions re-emerge as the defining characteristics of what it means to be human within the collective called life.…
Gaia and the Ghedeist
The chapter reinforces the role of positive earth emotions by putting them all within the context of a secular land or earth 'spirituality'. Negative Earth emotions can only manifest themselves if humans have a fundamental attachment to place. The chapter forwards the concept of the 'Ghedeist' to explain the deepest and most meaningful place relationships people can have. Rather than rely on or appropriate such spiritual affinities to the Earth d…
The Psychoterratic in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene, or period of human dominance of nature, is used as a master theme enabling the identification of a set of environmental conditions conducive to negative emotional psychoterratic states. The chapter considers the implications of an 'emotional death' occurring between humans and nature. It then gives an account of the known negative psychoterratic states in the existing literature. In addition to the concepts of nostalgia and sola…
Generation Symbiocene
This chapter puts the case that, although human development pressures and the all-encompassing power of the Anthropocene appear inevitable, they are not, and an optimistic future lies before humanity. The positive emotions and a positive spirituality combined, offer a clear alternative to an ecoapocalypse for people to choose as they chart the future course of their lives in the twenty-first century. A new generation, Generation Symbiocene, schoo…
Earth Emotions
An account of the conflict between our positive and negative emotional relationships to the Earth and how they will be resolved for the Symbiocene, the next period in the history of the Earth
Climate change threats to family farmers' sense of place and mental wellbeing
Climate change threats to family farmers' sense of place and mental wellbeing
Negating Solastalgia
I shall situate the emerging literature on eco-grief, climate grief, and ecological grief within the concept of solastalgia. I argue that the concept of solastalgia, as created and developed to the present, has strong affinities with the eco-grief literature. Solastalgia, the lived experience of negative environmental change, has much to offer those who seek clarification about the relationship between the state of human emotions and the state of…
Earth Emotions
An account of the conflict between our positive and negative emotional relationships to the Earth and how they will be resolved for the Symbiocene, the next period in the history of the Earth
Climate change threats to family farmers' sense of place and mental wellbeing
Earth Emotions
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 positive and negative Earth emotions…
Conclusion
This chapter presents an overview and evaluation of all that has been covered in the previous chapters. The power of love in human affairs is given prominence as is the idea that love plus secular spirituality in the form of the Ghedeist is crucial to the future of all humanity. However, as has been the case in other chapters, this chapter has supported the unifying power of human love with the very best of the scientific knowledge gained from th…
Solastalgia
This chapter defines the author's term solastalgia as the lived experience of negative environmental change. The origins of this concept are explained via an account of the impact of coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales in Australia. The derivation of solastalgia from nostalgia (homesickness) and other roots is explained. The original research base of solastalgia is described as are the many applications of the concept world-…
A Sumbiography
A "sumbiography" is the term used in this book to explain the cumulative influences on a life, from childhood to adulthood, which have culminated in the author writing a book about the intimate relationships between humans, other forms of life, and nature. These influences include extended family and the nature writers and their narratives that have come to influence a life. A sumbiography explains how one attains the ability to feel, first hand,…
The Psychoterratic in the Symbiocene
The Symbiocene, or period of re-integration between humans and the rest of nature, is the second of the master themes used to define Earth emotions. The chapter constructs the idea of the Symbiocene from the latest scientific discoveries made about symbiosis and its centrality in maintaining life. Within this new meme, positive Earth emotions re-emerge as the defining characteristics of what it means to be human within the collective called life.…
Gaia and the Ghedeist
The chapter reinforces the role of positive earth emotions by putting them all within the context of a secular land or earth 'spirituality'. Negative Earth emotions can only manifest themselves if humans have a fundamental attachment to place. The chapter forwards the concept of the 'Ghedeist' to explain the deepest and most meaningful place relationships people can have. Rather than rely on or appropriate such spiritual affinities to the Earth d…
The Psychoterratic in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene, or period of human dominance of nature, is used as a master theme enabling the identification of a set of environmental conditions conducive to negative emotional psychoterratic states. The chapter considers the implications of an 'emotional death' occurring between humans and nature. It then gives an account of the known negative psychoterratic states in the existing literature. In addition to the concepts of nostalgia and sola…
Generation Symbiocene
This chapter puts the case that, although human development pressures and the all-encompassing power of the Anthropocene appear inevitable, they are not, and an optimistic future lies before humanity. The positive emotions and a positive spirituality combined, offer a clear alternative to an ecoapocalypse for people to choose as they chart the future course of their lives in the twenty-first century. A new generation, Generation Symbiocene, schoo…
Earth Emotions
An account of the conflict between our positive and negative emotional relationships to the Earth and how they will be resolved for the Symbiocene, the next period in the history of the Earth
Negating Solastalgia
I shall situate the emerging literature on eco-grief, climate grief, and ecological grief within the concept of solastalgia. I argue that the concept of solastalgia, as created and developed to the present, has strong affinities with the eco-grief literature. Solastalgia, the lived experience of negative environmental change, has much to offer those who seek clarification about the relationship between the state of human emotions and the state of…
Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropocene (4 works) · Earth (classical element) (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Geography (3 works)