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P26


Sustainable wellbeing? [Wellbeing, Psychology and Therapeutic Culture in International Development SG] 
Convenors:
Sarah White (University of Bath)
Sally Brooks (University of York)
Shreya Jha
Elise Klein (ANU)
China Mills (University of Sheffield)
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Location:
E59 (Richmond building)
Start time:
7 September, 2017 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
1

Short Abstract:

This panel critically interrogates understandings of the person advanced within sustainability discourse and practice. How is humanity seen as related to the broader world of living things? What implications have changing ecosystems for understandings of human being and action?

Long Abstract:

This panel invites papers that critically interrogate the understandings of the person advanced within sustainability discourse and practice. How is humanity seen as connected to, distinct from, or a part of, the broader world of living things? What assumptions about human action are implied in programmes aiming at behaviour change? What implications have changing ecosystems for understandings of human being and action? How can interactions between the human and natural worlds best be traced? Does development inevitably rupture the organic interdependence of a sacred ecology in human-nature relations? What ontology underlies the representation of human-nature interactions in terms of 'eco-system services'? How does social justice, and social difference by race, ethnicity, class, age or gender figure in all of this? Papers which reflect on practical examples of programmes, particular geographical or historical contexts or experiences of social action are particularly welcome.

Accepted papers:

Session 1