Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change

被引:116
作者
Verlie, Blanche [1 ]
机构
[1] RMIT Univ, Sch Global Urban & Social Studies, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
关键词
Affect; adaptation; emotions; becoming; care; distress; hope; CHANGE ADAPTATION; CHANGE EDUCATION; MEDIATING ROLE; PERCEPTIONS; RETHINKING; EXPERIENCE; CHILDREN; ANXIETY; GUILT; HOPE;
D O I
10.1080/13504622.2019.1637823
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
This paper explores the emotional experiences of some undergraduate sustainability students in a semester long course on climate change. Specifically, it attends to experiences of anxiety, frustration, overwhelm, guilt, grief and hope. I suggest these experiences are characteristic of a process I term learning to live-with climate change. Learning to live-with climate change involves attuning to the relational composition of the world and thus the self; mourning desirable relationships that are lost as the planet warms; and responding to these conditions in ways that may foster more liveable worlds. Collectively, these processes enrol people in practices of bearing worlds: enduring the pain of the end of the world they have known, and labouring to generate promising alternatives. As such, these processes reconfigure the self and its relations, and attunement to how climate change composes, recomposes and decomposes particular subjectivities is important. The paper argues that affective adaptation is therefore a crucial element of climate change education.
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页码:751 / 766
页数:16
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