A Conversation with Sarah Jaquette Ray
November 19, 2020
6:30–8:00 PM (EST)
Archived streaming video of this event is available here.
Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray’s book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (University of California Press, 2020) is an “existential toolkit” for the climate generation.
Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, A Field Guide explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. In this webinar Ray will explain the concept of the existential toolkit and offer practical, concrete strategies for overcoming the paralyzing effects of anxiety in the face of the greatest environmental threat of our time.
How to Attend
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About the Speaker
Sarah Jaquette Ray is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University, where she has been Program Leader of the Environmental Studies Program since 2013. She received her PhD in Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy from the University of Oregon in 2009. She holds a BA in Religious Studies (Swarthmore College) and a MA in American Studies (University of Texas, Austin). Her first book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (2013), explores the ways that environmental discourse often reinforces existing social hierarchies, drawing on a legacy of nativist, racial, and ableist exclusion in environmental history. Ray has edited three collections, including Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory (2017), Disability Studies & the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory (2017), and Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (2019). Her second book, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, was published in 2020.
This event is free and open to the public. No advance registration is required.
“How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet” is sponsored by Imagining Climate Change.