Embodied experiences of environmental and climatic changes in landscapes of everyday life in Ghana

Tschakert, Petra; Tutu, Raymond Asare; Alcaro, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2011.11.001

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“…Our findings extend research on impacts of environmental change on benefits of environmental use for Inuit, such as food security, social cohesion, and intergenerational transfer of knowledge (Furgal et al, 2002;Nickels et al, 2006;Pearce et al, 2011), and make a novel contribution to the nascent understanding of impacts of changing environmental conditions on mental/emotional, spiritual, social and cultural health and place attachment for Inuit (Cunsolo Willox et al, 2013Willox et al, , 2012. This study also adds evidence for the emerging body of literature documenting disruptions to place attachment and 'solastalgia', or distress from loss of place-based solace from the deterioration of one's home environment, due to environmental change (e.g., Albrecht et al, 2007;Cunsolo Willox et al, 2012;Tschakert et al, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…A growing body of research is also employing a relational view of place and space to capture the emotional and affective aspects of disruptions to relationships with places due to climate change (e.g., Cunsolo Willox et al, 2012;Tschakert et al, 2013), although it has been argued that there is a need for expansion (Curtis and Oven, 2012).…”

Section: Place-based Approaches To Environment-health Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate change influences on environment as a determinant of Indigenous health: Relationships to place, sea ice, and health in an Inuit community

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Furgal

Skinner

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Place-based Approaches To Environment-health Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change influences on environment as a determinant of Indigenous health: Relationships to place, sea ice, and health in an Inuit community

Durkalec

Furgal

Skinner

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

168

179

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“…Either way, the futurity of climate change discourses is also typified by expectations of great loss -of land, livelihood, community and identity. Tschakert, Tutu, and alcaro (2013) deploy the concept of 'solastalgia' to understand the sorrow and helplessness felt by community members whose proximate landscapes undergo critical ecological degradation, leaving people with a feeling of homesickness even when they remain at home.…”

Section: Climate Change Migration and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility

Farbotko

Stratford

Lazrus

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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New evidence is emerging to suggest that climate change mobility is giving effect to changing forms of island identity among Tuvaluans and i-Kiribati. This nascent shift prompts a number of questions addressed in this paper. What, for example, does climate change migration mean for island identity and its geographic performance? How does the spatialization of identity inform shared experiences of climate change, and how does identity assist in the formation of shared positions from which to advocate for change? Drawing on discourses of sedentarism and mobilization among Tuvaluan and i-Kiribati, we explore performances of identity related to climate change being fashioned and refashioned in different contexts. Migrants climatiques et nouvelles identités ? Les géopolitiques d'adoption ou de rejet de mobilité RÉSUMÉDe nouveaux éléments de preuve indiquent que la mobilité liée au changement climatique commence à donner effet à des formes changeantes d'identité insulaire chez les Tuvaluans et les i-Kiribatis. Ce changement naissant suscite un certain nombre de questions posées dans cet article. Par exemple, que signifie la migration due au changement climatique pour l'identité de l'île et sa performance géographique ? Comment la spatialisation de l'identité influencet-elle les expériences partagées du changement climatique, et comment l'identité aide-t-elle à la formation de positions partagées à partir desquelles on puisse prôner des changements ? En exploitant des discours de sédentarisme et de mobilisation chez les Tuvaluans et les i-Kiribati, nous explorons les performances d'identité liées au changement climatique façonnées et refaçonnées dans différents contextes. Migrantes climáticos y nuevas identidades? La geopolítica de aceptar o rechazar la movilidad RESUMENExiste nueva evidencia que sugiere que la movilidad de cambio climático está dando efecto a las formas cambiantes de identidad

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“…climate change (Tschakert et al 2013;Warsini et al 2014 In contrast, emotions associated with memory of certain environments may be unwelcome.…”

Section: Emotional Geographies Provoked By Past Experience In Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Therapeutic landscapes’ and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design

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(2015) '`Therapeutic landscapes' and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design.', Health place., 33 . pp. 83-89. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace. 2015.02.010 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Health place. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Health place, 33, 2015Health place, 33, , 10.1016Health place, 33, /j.healthplace.2015 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Highlights:• We emphasise how emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces are important • Emotions and memories of spaces can impinge on one's present therapeutic experience • We interpret our research by using a Therapeutic landscapes framework • We relate our research to ideas about salvage and abandonment • Our research highlights recommendations for good practice in hospital design 'Therapeutic Landscapes' and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for Psychiatric Hospital design. AbstractWe examine emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces of care, linked with past experiences. In this paper we draw on findings from a qualitative study of the transfer of psychiatric inpatient care from an old to a newly built facility. We show how the meanings attributed to 'therapeutic landscapes' from one's past can evoke emotions and memories, manifesting in ideas about nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment, which can impinge on one's present therapeutic experience. We reflect on how consideration of these ideas might contribute to better future design of psychiatric inpatient facilities and the wellbeing of those using them.

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Embodied experiences of environmental and climatic changes in landscapes of everyday life in Ghana

Cited by 86 publications

References 28 publications

Climate change influences on environment as a determinant of Indigenous health: Relationships to place, sea ice, and health in an Inuit community

Climate change influences on environment as a determinant of Indigenous health: Relationships to place, sea ice, and health in an Inuit community

Climate migrants and new identities? The geopolitics of embracing or rejecting mobility

‘Therapeutic landscapes’ and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design

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