With industrial productive processes responsible for the overwhelming majority of carbon emissions and disenfranchised communities—especially in the Global South—experiencing the direst consequences of global heating, it is disingenuous to characterise the present geological epoch as the Anthropocene (the Age of Humans). Responsibility for climate change does not fall equally upon all of us. As such, we can more accurately characterise our contemporary epoch as the Capitalocene (the Age of Capital). Although mainstream psychology has oftentimes aligned itself with the individualism of the Anthropocene discourse, there is a tradition of critical community psychology that has engaged directly with the capitalogenic roots of the climate emergency. Working within this critical tradition, we reflect in this chapter on how community psychology can be oriented towards consolidating political projects that strive to advance just human-ecological relations that are necessarily outside of the dictates of capital. Specifically, we look to a project where residents from a South African community co-produced a participatory documentary film depicting their struggles for planetary justice. We examine how these different struggles are depicted in the film, as well as how the film was used to communicate these struggles with others, build solidarity and engage in agonistic dialogues with State actors.

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Resisting Capitalism, Resisting Climate Change: Community Psychology in and Against the Capitalocene

  • Nick Malherbe,
  • Bongani Mavundla

摘要

With industrial productive processes responsible for the overwhelming majority of carbon emissions and disenfranchised communities—especially in the Global South—experiencing the direst consequences of global heating, it is disingenuous to characterise the present geological epoch as the Anthropocene (the Age of Humans). Responsibility for climate change does not fall equally upon all of us. As such, we can more accurately characterise our contemporary epoch as the Capitalocene (the Age of Capital). Although mainstream psychology has oftentimes aligned itself with the individualism of the Anthropocene discourse, there is a tradition of critical community psychology that has engaged directly with the capitalogenic roots of the climate emergency. Working within this critical tradition, we reflect in this chapter on how community psychology can be oriented towards consolidating political projects that strive to advance just human-ecological relations that are necessarily outside of the dictates of capital. Specifically, we look to a project where residents from a South African community co-produced a participatory documentary film depicting their struggles for planetary justice. We examine how these different struggles are depicted in the film, as well as how the film was used to communicate these struggles with others, build solidarity and engage in agonistic dialogues with State actors.