Inoculating against threats to climate activists’ image: Intersectional environmentalism and the Indian farmers’ protest

Sabherwal, Anandita; Shreedhar, Ganga; Linden, Sander van der

doi:10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100051

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“…Although interpersonal generosity is an important aspect of participants' national cultures (Cultural Atlas Editors, 2015; Evason, 2016), participants’ generosity extended to their career plans centering on professions where helping others would be possible. While in our study, the younger and older adolescents alike spoke positively about their present educational opportunities, it should be noted that older refugee adolescents often face barriers to entering and continuing on educational paths because the integration systems require them to enter the labor market instead and become self‐reliant (Savaş & Dutt, 2023).…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Our methodological approach, photovoice, belongs to the participatory action research tradition (Savaş and Dutt (2023) and Fine and Sirin (2007) offer rich insights into the participatory action research among refugees and ethnic minority youth, respectively). Photovoice aims at empowering individuals in marginalized groups to cocreate knowledge with researchers in a safe environment of partnership for open discussion and disclosure (Pearce et al, 2017; Savaş & Dutt, 2023). The methodology provides space for research but, addressing topics relevant to a community, also seeks to empower social action among community members to address those topics (Langhout, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The role of temporality in adolescent refugees' sense of well‐being

Kira,

Belgrade,

Saleem

et al. 2024

Journal Community Psychology

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Adolescent refugees confront a complex interplay of trauma arising from forced displacement, resettlement, and the challenges of transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Using photovoice methodology, this study engaged 14 Iraqi and Syrian adolescent refugees now residing in the United States with the aim to illuminate their well‐being experiences. Our findings show that temporal continuities and discontinuities in adolescent refugees' lives contributed to their sense of well‐being by helping satisfy their basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, relatedness, and safety. Temporal continuities involved drawing upon past resources and formulating future career aspirations based on present experiences. Temporal discontinuities encompassed contrasting past and present and processing adversities endured. This study underscores that, beyond current circumstances, the interpretation of life experiences over extended timeframes influences the well‐being of adolescent refugees.

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confidence: 76%

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confidence: 99%

The role of temporality in adolescent refugees' sense of well‐being

Kira,

Belgrade,

Saleem

et al. 2024

Journal Community Psychology

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“…As such, environmental psychologists can develop interventions to broaden the general public's understanding of climate justice to include intersections with other social issues. Moreover, they can investigate the psychological and behavioural consequences of intersectional environmentalism (Sabherwal et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

How environmental and social psychologists can engage with system-level processes

Sabherwal,

O'Dell

2023

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By focusing on individuals as the target of analysis and interventions, psychology tends to individualise the problem and potential solutions. Psychology’s narrow focus characterises the individual (and groups of individuals) as the sole agent of change, remaining agnostic to the larger systemic and structural entities that are primarily responsible for climate change (and mitigation approaches). The IPCC has acknowledged that individual behaviour change alone will not be enough, instead calling for transformations to our systems to enable the required emissions reductions. In this chapter, we ask, in response to the urgency and scale of the climate crisis, how can environmental psychologists engage with system-level processes? Firstly, we argue that environmental psychology can serve a descriptive role. It can provide a lens to understand how psychological drivers of behaviour may be embedded in broader societal forces. And, liaise with neighbouring disciplines to study perceptions of transformative system-level agendas. For example, while much research on degrowth comes out of ecological economics, more work is needed to understand psychological processes inhibiting support for the agenda. Secondly, we underscore psychology’s role in investigating ways to achieve environmentally-impactful transformations. Psychologists can endorse direct and democratic means of transforming our system by focussing on policy support as outcome measures. Behaviours and values may still be relevant, but research should focus on those that enable transformation, such as sufficiency. To further promote democratic deliberation, research methods could facilitate conversations via deliberative methods, for example via citizen’s assemblies, rather than extracting information. Deconstructing differences in feasibility and access across contexts, psychologists can identify diverse ways in which individuals act to demand social and climate justice and further empower such collective endeavours. Given the complexity of the global climate crisis, psychology must expand its focus beyond the individual to the system in order to create meaningful impact.

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