Virtual hang + discussion :: ??? @ 10am PST/1pm EST/ 7pm CET zoom.us/j/930-995-451
In this X/RG, we will be exploring topics surrounding ecological loss and grief. While much progress has been made by the climate justice movement in 2019, the wildfires that have recently swept across the globe reminded us that much more loss and ecological destruction is yet to come.
How might we cope emotionally with such extensive destruction? How might we deal with a lost sense of place?
For this reading group we turn to environmental theorist Glenn Albrecht, who coined the term "solastalgia". We invite you to share with us your thoughts, feelings, perspectives and anecdotes surrounding the topic of ecological grief.
grieving rituals? doing a collective mourning ceremony?
"Solastalgia is the pain or sickness caused by the loss or lack of solace and the sense of isolation connected to the present state of one's home and territory."
Solastalgia is not about looking back to a golden past. It is the lived experience of loss of the present as manifest in a feeling of dislocation; of being undermined by forces that destroy the potential for solace to be derived from the present.” Glenn Albrecht
1 ‘Solastalgia’, A New Concept in Health and Identity, Glenn Albrecht, 2005
2 Andrew S. Mathews ‘Ghostly Forms and Forest Histories’ IN: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet – Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt (Eds.), 2017, University of Minnesota Press.