Hi Annie,
Thanks very much! You have attached a paper that is rich in its complexity and speaks to many of the fundamentals that need attention. This is a really eloquent weaving together of the issues and potential ways forward, in an accessible way. I appreciate your sharing this resource with us.
Regards,
Jacqui A
On 7 Feb 2014, at 16:29, "Annie Mitchell" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi John,
Great thanks for sharing the slides. So good. And pubs democratising …
Yes ‘m on ambivalent edge or our TTs here in Devon…. - risk of individualising and distracting from social inequalities and economics underpinning , yet also providing a shared framework for articulating and beginning to activate political pressure for action…- attached are the notes for a talk / workshop I;ve given for a few Transition Town / Café Scientifiques in Devon on psychologies of change and climate change. My experience is that many people are interested in a message that joins the strands… making personal /political links. There’s an interesting climate change person here in Devon done some great visuals and is convincing re scope for hope with the new technologies and for clarifying the and articulating the democratic and business interest economics of the issues: http://www.carbonvisuals.com/
Annie
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Hi Annie,
We have some audio slides from an earlier time we did it in Sussex. See below.
http://discursiveoftunbridgewells.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/is-life-disease.html
A pub turns out to be a great place to have these kinds of discussions. Doesn’t quite iron out power differentials but there is a sense in which everyone seems a bit more like a punter.
I think in the talk we’re trying to capture both ends of it. The value the a lot of people place on diagnosis (all of us are vested interests perhaps) and why but the limits of that and the huge problems it raises. Trying to draw people into the discussion a bit. Feelings run so high that sometimes communication feels difficult when these areas are raised.
The ecocide site is interesting thanks. Draws attention to a lot of important stuff. I also wonder though (and this is completely separate point) about what anti-environmental behaviours are and how we should judge them (after all the pressure to maintaining cheap oil prices is complicated and the results not always bad). Something lie the Transition Town movement (am I right in remembering you’ve had some involvement in it) is interesting in this regard. I worry a bit that my local TT branch frequently conflates behaviours that feel moral (local currency or people making sourdough bread or whatever) with things that might be effective. A whole other story though.
BW
John
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Sounds so good -
I;e been thinking if we used a social disease metaphor, what would be the cultural disease label that would label political climate change denial madness or some such.
I;ts up in my awareness today, marooned in Devon with the UK southwest peninsula railway ie most of Devon and all of Cornwall cut off from the rest of the land at least the next 6 weeks following unprecedented coastal storm and floodcdamage,
The human rights lawyer Polly Higgins is working at an international level to get the crime ecocide on the international law stature books. What might a social psychological parallel look like _ I suppose Oliver james calls it affluenza but there is a risk of individualising it… - do we need a sort of anti-DSM at a global level about collective madness… ..
See http://eradicatingecocide.com/
Annie
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Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Pub talk about DSM
Hi Folks,
Some list member in the Kent and Sussex areas area might finds this of interest. Anne Cooke and I are giving our pub talk ‘Is Life a Disease?’ about psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM5 in Tunbridge Wells on the 6th of March. Full details are in that link below.
http://tunbridgewells.skepticsinthepub.org/Event.aspx/1893/Is-Life-a-Disease
BW
John
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