Research papers

You can find all my research papers on Google Scholar; many of them are open access (free to read) though some of the older ones are not.

Some of my sole-authored and lead-authored papers are posted here (below) with full text.

If you’d like a copy of any of my research and can’t access it, please reach out and I can email it to you directly.

Bearing worlds: Learning to live-with climate change
hope, grief, anxiety, frustration, guilt, overwhelm, relationality, affect, adaptation blanche verlie hope, grief, anxiety, frustration, guilt, overwhelm, relationality, affect, adaptation blanche verlie

Bearing worlds: Learning to live-with climate change

This paper explores the emotional experiences of some undergraduate sustainability students in a semester long course on climate change. Specifically, it attends to experiences of anxiety, frustration, overwhelm, guilt, grief and hope. I suggest these experiences are characteristic of a process I term learning to live-with climate change. Learning to live-with climate change involves attuning to the relational composition of the world and thus the self; mourning desirable relationships that are lost as the planet warms; and responding to these conditions in ways that may foster more liveable worlds.

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