Forms of grief and loss in ecological grief
My major work from last year, a more in-depth application of grief theory into ecological grief, has now been published: Pihkala, Panu. 2024. “Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief.” Sustainability 16 (2): 849. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/2/849 A Table of Contents is available here: https://www.academia.edu/109236363/Ecological_sorrow_Types_of_grief_and_loss_in_ecological_grief_TOC_ Some may ask: why is the article so long, 35 pages? I did not want to split it into two or three different articles, because I argue that it’s elementary to observe the intricate connections between many kinds of loss and grief. I wanted to create a broad-ranging frame about ecological loss and grief. Sometimes progressive rock bands do double albums, and this is probably the longest one I’ll ever make. The article does several things: a) it promotes and extends the pioneering categorizations of Randall (2009) and Cunsolo & E...