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dc.contributor.authorTschakert, Petra
dc.contributor.authorBourgault du Coudray, C.
dc.contributor.authorHorwitz, P.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-09T05:49:16Z
dc.date.available2024-04-09T05:49:16Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationTschakert, P. and Bourgault du Coudray, C. and Horwitz, P. 2023. Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 7(1): pp. 189-211.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/94738
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/25148486231173202
dc.description.abstract

The postapocalypse as a mobilising discourse for climate action operates largely out of anger over experienced and anticipated injustices as well as paradoxical hope that fuses loss and grief with freed-up solidarities in support of liveable futures. However, negotiating this emotional tension can be both draining and isolating. Here, we examine how white settler populations in Western Australia balance grief and hope in places they hold dear and the role emotions such as sadness, worry, disappointment, joy, and pride play in relational place making. Through an innovative in situ and mobile methodology we call Walking Journeys, we trace how participants navigate their climatic-affective atmospheres and make sense of their agency in changing ‘Places of the Heart’. We find evidence for emotional complexities of solastalgia where pessimistic outlooks for the future are wrapped up in prefigurative visions of a better world. By holding the tension between paralysis and restoration, urban and rural residents explore affective co-existence and differential belonging in their homes and the landscapes around them. We highlight the challenge of enfranchising emotions beyond individuals and conclude by endorsing entangled, reflexive, and (re-)generative responsibilities for hopeful postapocalyptic journeying.

dc.relation.sponsoredbyhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP180103700
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleWalking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume7
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage189
dcterms.source.endPage211
dcterms.source.issn2514-8486
dcterms.source.titleEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space
dc.date.updated2024-04-09T05:49:11Z
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
curtin.contributor.orcidTschakert, Petra [0000-0002-4268-3378]
dcterms.source.eissn2514-8494
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