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The modest hope of this book is to bear witness to the ways in which human beings embody, and are embedded in, the social, material and cultural infrastructure at the heart of anthropogenic ecocide. To do so requires an interrogation of societal structures and their subjective dimensions, often lurking in the background as given in ‘weak’ approaches sustainability. In the chapters that follow, these dimensions intersect to the extent that they are often purposefully dissolved—into units of analysis that are conceptualised as hybrids of both, articulating the in-between, the psychosocial. Understanding human behaviour in an unprecedented era of anthropogenic ecological crisis demands this level of explanation. It is the only hope we have for making sense of how humans comprehend and respond to an ecological crisis that reflexively embeds them in it.
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Adams, M. (2016). Introduction: The Walls Are Closing In. In: Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35160-9_1
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