"ECEGADMAT". Varieties of Feeling Bad about Climate and Other Things
Provider: Grantová agentura ČR
Programme: Standardní projekty
Implementation period: 01.01.22 - 31.12.24
Workplace:
Fakulta filozofická - Oddělení filosofie
Investigator: Beran OndřejTeam member: Pacovská Kamila | Forsberg Anders Niklas | Rozen David | Fredriksson Antony
Description:
The project focuses on of our varied negative reactions to the degradation in nature. First, it acknowledges their heterogeneity, reflected by the terminology used: environmental/climate /ecological grief/anxiety/despair/melancholia/anger/trauma (acronymised as ECEGADMAT). Second, though much research of ECEGADMAT has been conducted in terms of mental health, the project proposes to describe it as an emotion, a cognitive state/attitude, responsive to culture and cultivation. Analysing forms of ECEGADMAT as emotions involves mapping their relations to the different stimuli they react to and to the opposite emotions. Third, we opt for an existential, rather than a psycho-pathological, account of ECEGADMAT (as a form of relevant understanding of one?s life and the world). That opens room for considering i) the appropriateness of ECEGADMAT, and ii) its status as a moral emotion. Fourth, we will research ways in which art forms (literature, films, documentary) contribute both to experiencing ECEGADMAT and to overcoming it and engaging, for instance, in a public action.
The project focuses on of our varied negative reactions to the degradation in nature. First, it acknowledges their heterogeneity, reflected by the terminology used: environmental/climate /ecological grief/anxiety/despair/melancholia/anger/trauma (acronymised as ECEGADMAT). Second, though much research of ECEGADMAT has been conducted in terms of mental health, the project proposes to describe it as an emotion, a cognitive state/attitude, responsive to culture and cultivation. Analysing forms of ECEGADMAT as emotions involves mapping their relations to the different stimuli they react to and to the opposite emotions. Third, we opt for an existential, rather than a psycho-pathological, account of ECEGADMAT (as a form of relevant understanding of one?s life and the world). That opens room for considering i) the appropriateness of ECEGADMAT, and ii) its status as a moral emotion. Fourth, we will research ways in which art forms (literature, films, documentary) contribute both to experiencing ECEGADMAT and to overcoming it and engaging, for instance, in a public action.
