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‘New materialisms’ refers to a broad, contemporary, and
significant movement of thought across the social sciences and
cultural studies which attempts to (re)turn to, renew, or create
alternative philosophies of matter. Such philosophies spring from
multiple sources but are in general an attempt to bring the
indissolubility of the social and environmental more forcefully
into our analytical frames and modes of inquiry and tackle a
perceived over-reliance on discourse and language in the so-called
post-modern era of philosophy and social science. This movement in
thought is underlaid by, and meets up with, the climate and
biodiversity crises and the nature of the human condition (and
modes of learning or becoming), within the field of environmental
education. This volume brings together academics working at
differing intersections of environmental education and new
materialisms, highlighting tensions, knots, and lines of flight
across and for research, practice, and theory. As such this
collection draws on multiple interpretations and streams of thought
within new materialisms and demonstrates their significance for
those engaging with environmental education policy, practice and
research. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the journal Environmental Education Research.
This book makes the unorthodox claim that there is no such thing as
mental health. It also deglamourises nature-based psychotherapies,
deconstructs therapeutic landscapes and redefines mental health and
wellbeing as an ecological process distributed in the environment -
rather than a psychological manifestation trapped within the mind
of a human subject. Traditional and contemporary philosophies are
merged with new science of the mind as each chapter progressively
examples a posthuman account of mental health as physically
dispersed amongst things - emoji, photos, tattoos, graffiti,
cities, mountains - in this precarious time labelled the
Anthropocene. Utilising experimental walks, play scripts and
creative research techniques, this book disrupts traditional
notions of the subjective self, resulting in an Extended Body
Hypothesis - a pathway for alternative narratives of
human-environment relations to flourish more ethically. This
transdisciplinary inquiry will appeal to anyone interested in
non-classificatory accounts of mental health, particularly
concerning areas of social and environmental equity - post-nature.
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