Solastalgia
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https://doi.org/10.47854/anthropen.v1i1.51945Keywords:
environmental anxiety, Place attachment, Inequalities, Sense of belongingAbstract
This entry introduces the concept of solastalgia by presenting the literature at the crossroads of psychology and environmental humanities. Solastalgia designates a form of distress expressed by the anxiety of seeing one's living environment (territory, landscape, habitat, ecosystem) disappear. Largely born of the environmental disasters of the last fifty years, this specific affect emanates from today's common world, from the way in which people experience their place of birth or existence and feel the effects of its sudden transformation. To illustrate this still-emerging concept, this contribution draws on recent qualitative and ethnographic research which, on the one hand, shows the links between solastalgia and social and geographical inequalities, and, on the other, revisits attachment to place and the sense of belonging.
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