Drawing on research conducted in England and Scotland with participants in socio-ecological group practices (The Work that Reconnects/Active Hope and the Carbon Literacy Project), this chapter examines how climate change materialises loss, change and injustice relating to ecosystems, cultures, expectations and connections to the more-than-human world. It shows how practices to acknowledge and work with climate-related grief increase capacity to sustain engagement, while unacknowledged griefs contribute to ambivalence that impedes engagement.
Turning Towards the Tears of the World: Practices and Processes of Grief and Never-endings
2024
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Drawing on research conducted in England and Scotland with participants in socio-ecological group practices (The Work that Reconnects/Active Hope and the Carbon Literacy Project), this chapter examines how climate change materialises loss, change and injustice relating to ecosystems, cultures, expectations and connections to the more-than-human world. It shows how practices to acknowledge and work with climate-related grief increase capacity to sustain engagement, while unacknowledged griefs contribute to ambivalence that impedes engagement.
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