Climate Change, Environments of Uncertainty and Loss: Jung, Politics and Culture - Softcover

Norton, Sarah D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032644834 ISBN 13: 9781032644837

Publisher: Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

London Arts Based Research Centre's 2025 recipient of the Susan Rowland Award for Jungian Arts-Based Research

Focusing on one of the most significant and critical issues facing the world today, this important book explores multiple aspects of climate change through the use of Jungian symbols and "signs" of this environmental shift, while diving deep into the politics of loss in reaction to climate chaos, uncertainty, and ambiguity.

Despite the imminent threat of ecological crisis, many treat this existential crisis as something that can be pushed to the side, ignored, and denied. The loss of natural habitats, species, land, human life, and health continues, acknowledged or not. Unconsciously, a necessary process of grief is bubbling up from the depths as a reaction to this climate crisis. This grief, often disguised as anger or inaction, can lead to individual and political action if it is engaged consciously and directed with purpose. From forest fires, to melting ice, to bleached coral, and warming oceans, within the chapters of this book, each sign of our changing planet is explored in depth from multiple perspectives. Through this exploration, each is revealed as a Jungian symbol encompassing so much more than we consciously comprehend. Each symbol is brought to life in the context of this political, communal, and individual space of loss, transforming a subversive grieving process into creative, conscious action.

This is essential and accessible reading for those within the fields of depth psychology, environmental sciences, humanities, and politics, as well as anyone wishing to gain more insight into the current climate crisis and their place within it.

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About the Author

Sarah D. Norton, PhD, is an independent scholar who earned her MA and PhD in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Jungian and archetypal psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. With a passion for intersectional environmentalism, dreamwork, and creativity she writes about climate and current events from an archetypal perspective with a focus on grief, loss, uncertainty, and the novel hope it takes to walk a complex path towards our unknown future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032644834
• ISBN 13: 9781032644837
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100