Claiming ecological grief
Why are we not mourning (more and more publicly) for ecological destruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8124607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marzia Varutti (0000-0002-6620-3391, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 552-564 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AMBIO (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7447 • E-ISSN: 1654-7209 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-023-01962-w |
| PMID | 38060140 |
| OpenAlex | W4389437888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 43 |
Eco-anxiety, grief and despair are increasing, yet these emotions tend to remain private, rarely expressed in public. Why is it important and necessary to grieve for ecological loss? Why are we not—as individuals and societies—coming together to express and share our grief for ecological destruction? I address these questions from three angles. Firstly, I draw on recent literature on ecological grief and prior work on grief for human lives, to argue for the importance and urgency of grieving publicly for ecological loss. Building on this, I identify perceptual, cognitive, affective, ritual and political obstacles to ecological mourning; these obstacles point at critical intersections between emotions, practices, disciplines, public and private realms, which can turn into fruitful venues for further research, debate and action on ecological grief (and its absence). In closing, I propose a set of ‘ecological skills’ that might help us overcome these obstacles, and lead us to embrace ecological grief and mourning as acts of ethical responsibility and care for the planet.
Action (physics · Ecological psychology · Environmental ethics · Grief · Perception · Psychotherapist · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology · Social Psychology
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Species Trouble
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Remembrance Day for Lost Species
The Anthropoceneans
The Alexandrian Library of Life
From Invisibility to Transparency
Grave Reminders
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |