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Moments of Insight
No, life is not always steady and predictable. We can become increasingly sensitive to a world of creative tip** points. Included are, from Chaos...
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Consumer Culture and Its Futures: Dreams and Consequences
This chapter addresses a range of questions about the dreams and consequences of consumption. The roots of consumer culture can be traced back to...
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Understanding Aspirational Culture—Its Foundations and Development
The nature of aspirational culture is first presented in its everyday role in popular culture. Moore then argues that this culture is expressed at...
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Sacred Groundlessness: Deepening the Ethics of Mindfulness in the Midst of Global Crisis
This chapter situates the question of ethics and mindfulness in the context of a global crisis—a crisis that is at once ecological, social, and...
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In what sense are dogs special? Canine cognition in comparative context
The great increase in the study of dog cognition in the current century has yielded insights into canine cognition in a variety of domains. In this...
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Openings of the Object: Values, Gestures, Events
This chapter elaborates on the three Lacanian registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real. It borrows directly from Lacan’s own...
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Psychology as a Science of Subject and Comportment, beyond the Mind and Behavior
The turn of qualitative inquiry suggests a more open, plural conception of psychology than just the science of the mind and behavior as it is most...
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Introduction: The Walls Are Closing In
The modest hope of this book is to bear witness to the ways in which human beings embody, and are embedded in, the social, material and cultural...
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Money and Other Signifiers
The public masquerade I call the “Gaingiin Society” consists of ranked spirit-masks which afford men a measure of veiled agency in village space....
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Playback and Meaning
To free myself of feelings of being frozen and trapped by expectations, I started to explore science, literature, and dreams to discover my own...
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Building a Movement Against Ourselves? Socially Organized Defence Mechanisms
Although some of the ramifications of the defence mechanism typology advanced in the previous chapter at least imply otherwise, up to this point...
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Knowing and Not Knowing About Anthropogenic Ecological Crisis
This chapter extends an analysis of the affective dynamics involved in responding and not responding to ecological crisis. There is a mounting body...
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Madness and Method: a Pastoral Theological Reflection
This article is a reflection on pastoral method in light of the metaphor of madness. I consider the notion of madness in terms of how it is...
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Searching for a New Normal: Social Practices and Sustainability
If we accept the admonishments directed at existing theory and research in the previous chapter —for not understanding the role of social and...
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Ecological Crisis Through a Social Lens
This chapter surveys how environmentalism has moved from a fringe, counter-cultural concern to the avowed concern of public, policy makers and...
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Making Sense of the Senseless: Identity, Justice, and the Framing of Environmental Crises
Responses to environmental crises will depend on the way in which these events are understood and characterized, perceptions that may be affected by...