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By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation
I grew up in the shadow of the Mississippi River, whose mythology pressed upon my imagination.
Its culture inspired iconic works and pol...
Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question ...
Jennifer Bernstein is a lecturer with the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on environmental topics, including in Nature Climate Change, The Journal of Environmental Education, and Environmental Communication, and is co-author of SD...
Afterimage‘s recent relaunch with the University of California Press integrates the journal’s legacy of contemporary arts and media criticism with an expanded commitment to scholarly essays. As part of this mission, the editorial team wanted to approach the journal as a unique venue f...
How can we effectively combat climate change while grappling with feelings of powerlessness and despair? This is one of the key questions author Sarah Jaquette Ray, professor of environmental studies at Humboldt State University, seeks to answer in her new book, A Field Guide to Climate A...
By Sarah Jaquette Ray, author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (on sale April 2020)
Young people are more depressed, lonely, and suicidal than any generation before Generation Z. Anybody who works with this group, a generation beset wit...
UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s eighth annual University Press Week, running from November 3-9, focusing on an overall theme of how we and our peer presses “Read. Think. Act.” From the AU Presses: “Read. Think. Act.” is a particularly apt theme as man...