Psychology, environment and climate change: foregrounding justice (part one)

  • Brendon R. Barnes University of Johannesburg
  • Garret Barnwell University of Johannesburg
  • Lynn Hendricks Stellenbosch University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57157/pins2022Vol63iss1a5438
Keywords: Accompaniment,, affects, Africa(n)-centred psychology, decolonising psychology, feminist psychology, reflexivities

Abstract

We are living through unprecedented global heating,
environmental pollution, chemical toxicity, biodiversity
loss, extractivism, environmental militarisation, exclusion
of marginalised people in decision-making processes,
violence directed at environmental defenders and limits
to public engagement, to name a few issues (IPCC, 2022,
Menton & Le Billon, 2021, Noyes et al., 2009, Sealey-Huggins,
2018). While psychologists are paying increasing attention
to environmental degradation and climate change (Bailey,
Pool & James, 2021, Wainwright and Mitchell, 2021), the
discipline has been somewhat slow to address the political
and structural dimensions that underpin those issues.
Importantly, mainstream psychological scholarship has
neglected marginalised people who are disproportionately
affected and underrepresented in environmental and
climate scholarship and practice.

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Author Biographies

Brendon R. Barnes, University of Johannesburg

University of Johannesburg

Garret Barnwell, University of Johannesburg

University of Johannesburg

Lynn Hendricks, Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University

Published
2022-09-14
How to Cite
Barnes, B. R., Barnwell, G., & Hendricks, L. (2022). Psychology, environment and climate change: foregrounding justice (part one). PINS-Psychology in Society, 63(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.57157/pins2022Vol63iss1a5438
Issue
Vol. 63 No. 1 (2022): Special Issue: Psychology, Environment and Climate Change: Foregrounding Justice
Section
Editorial

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