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A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

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A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise when they confront this seemingly intractable situation. Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generation—and perhaps the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time.

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Univ of California Press

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0520974727

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The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

How to Teach in a Burning World

By: Jennifer Atkinson,Sarah Jaquette Ray

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How to Teach in a Burning World

By: Jennifer Atkinson,Sarah Jaquette Ray

An easy-to-use field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in your students—and yourself—in an age of crisis. As feelings of eco-grief and climate anxiety grow, educators are grappling with how to help students learn about the violent systems causing climate change while simultaneously navigating the emotions this knowledge elicits. This book provides resources for developing emotional and existential tenacity in college classrooms so that students can stay engaged. Featuring insights from scholars, educators, activists, artists, game designers, and others who are integrating emotional wisdom into climate justice education, this user-friendly guide offers a robust menu of interdisciplinary, plug-and-play teaching strategies, lesson plans, and activities to support student transformation and build resilience. The book also includes reflections from students who have taken classes that incorporate their emotions in the curricula. Galvanizing and practical, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators will equip both educators and their students with tools for advancing climate justice.

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Univ of California Press

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0520397126

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The Ecological Other

Environmental Exclusion in American Culture

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

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The Ecological Other

Environmental Exclusion in American Culture

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

This book engages recent scholarship on trans-corporeality, disability studies, and environmental justice. Ray argues that environmental discourse often frames ecological crisis as a crisis of the body, therefore promoting ecological health at the cost of social equality. Ray urges us to be careful about the ways in which we construct “others” in our arguments to protect nature.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816511888

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The Ecological Other

Environmental Exclusion in American Culture

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

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The Ecological Other

Environmental Exclusion in American Culture

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

With roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In The Ecological Other, Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body. Ray investigates three categories of ecological otherness: people with disabilities, immigrants, and Native Americans. Extending recent work in environmental justice ecocriticism, Ray argues that the expression of environmental disgust toward certain kinds of bodies draws problematic lines between ecological “subjects”—those who are good for and belong in nature—and ecological “others”—those who are threats to or out of place in nature. Ultimately, The Ecological Other urges us to be more critical of how we use nature as a tool of social control and to be careful about the ways in which we construct our arguments to ensure its protection. The book challenges long-standing assumptions in environmentalism and will be of interest to those in environmental literature and history, American studies, disability studies, and Native American studies, as well as anyone concerned with issues of environmental justice.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816599815

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The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

How to Teach in a Burning World

By: Jennifer Atkinson,Sarah Jaquette Ray

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How to Teach in a Burning World

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Univ of California Press

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0520397134

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A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

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The Nature of California

Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl

By: Sarah D. Wald

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The Nature of California

Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl

By: Sarah D. Wald

The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America’s natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California, Sarah Wald analyzes this legacy and its consequences by examining the paradoxical representations of California farmers and farmworkers from the Dust Bowl migration to present-day movements for food justice and immigrant rights. Analyzing fiction, nonfiction, news coverage, activist literature, memoirs, and more, Wald gives us a new way of thinking through questions of national belonging by probing the relationships among race, labor, and landownership. Bringing together ecocriticism and critical race theory, she pays special attention to marginalized groups, examining how Japanese American journalists, Filipino workers, United Farm Workers members, and contemporary immigrants-rights activists, among others, pushed back against the standard narratives of landownership and citizenship.

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University of Washington Press

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0295806583

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Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction

By: Sarah E. McFarland

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Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction

By: Sarah E. McFarland

This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue or long-term survival. Climate change fiction as a genre of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic writing usually resists facing the potentiality of human species extinction, following instead traditional generic conventions that imagine primitivist communities of human survivors with the means of escaping the consequences of global climate change. Yet amidst the ongoing sixth great extinction, works that problematize survival, provide no opportunities for social rebirth, and speculate humanity's final end may address the problem of how to reject the impulse of human exceptionalism that pervades climate change discourse and post-apocalyptic fiction. Rather than following the preferences of the genre, the ecocollapse fictions examined here manifest apocalypse where the means for a happy ending no longer exists. In these texts, diminished ecosystems, specters of cannibalism, and disintegrations of difference and othering render human self-identity as radically malleable within their confrontations with the stark materiality of all life. This book is the first in-depth exploration of contemporary fictions that imagine the imbrication of human and nonhuman within global species extinctions. It closely interrogates novels from authors like Peter Heller, Cormac McCarthy and Yann Martel that reject the impulse of human exceptionalism to demonstrate what it might be like to go extinct.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350177660

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Book's by Sarah Jaquette Ray

A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

The Ecological Other

The Ecological Other

The Ecological Other

The Ecological Other

The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators

A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

The Nature of California

The Nature of California

Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction

Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction

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