Climate and environmental crises, viewed as scientific issues to be solved by innovative technologies and individual behavioral changes, are shaped by social representations. The social sciences are a great resource for critically analyzing these constructs. In this chapter, the authors scrutinize the ongoing climate crisis narratives within the diverse field of psychology. Building on the concept of structural violence, which considers power dynamics in the relationship between humans and non-humans, it is possible to grasp the unseen political impact of the climate crisis on social cohesion, collective emotions, and identities in terms of social suffering. Looking back to the contributions of Liberation Psychology that positioned itself against political violence in Latin America in the 1970s, the authors explore the implications of the concept of political violence for psychologists in the Anthropocene. This exercise contributes to the self-reflexivity of psychological views on the climate crisis, calling for an engaged agenda for emancipation and community mobilization. This contribution invites the community of psychologists to renegotiate and align their professional perspectives on the climate crisis according to the multiple experiences and meanings assigned by affected communities. This paper calls on climate-aware psychologists to re-politicize their practices and work for social change as a means of addressing the climate crisis.

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The Climate Crisis Is Political Violence: What Can Psychology Do?

  • Davide Ziveri,
  • Guillaume Pégon,
  • Florentino Moreno Martín

摘要

Climate and environmental crises, viewed as scientific issues to be solved by innovative technologies and individual behavioral changes, are shaped by social representations. The social sciences are a great resource for critically analyzing these constructs. In this chapter, the authors scrutinize the ongoing climate crisis narratives within the diverse field of psychology. Building on the concept of structural violence, which considers power dynamics in the relationship between humans and non-humans, it is possible to grasp the unseen political impact of the climate crisis on social cohesion, collective emotions, and identities in terms of social suffering. Looking back to the contributions of Liberation Psychology that positioned itself against political violence in Latin America in the 1970s, the authors explore the implications of the concept of political violence for psychologists in the Anthropocene. This exercise contributes to the self-reflexivity of psychological views on the climate crisis, calling for an engaged agenda for emancipation and community mobilization. This contribution invites the community of psychologists to renegotiate and align their professional perspectives on the climate crisis according to the multiple experiences and meanings assigned by affected communities. This paper calls on climate-aware psychologists to re-politicize their practices and work for social change as a means of addressing the climate crisis.