ECOLOGICAL EMOTIONS RESEARCH LAB
ECOLOGICAL EMOTIONS RESEARCH LAB
James Dunk
Co-Director
Dr James Dunk is Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, and lead, planetary mental health, on the ARC Discovery Project Planetary Health Histories: Developing Concepts. A historian and interdisciplinary researcher, his research, teaching and writing explores how health, medicine and psychology are changing in the face of planetary crises. His first book, Bedlam at Botany Bay, won the Australian History Prize at the 2020 NSW Premier's History Awards. His research on planetary health, mental health and ecological distress has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Sustainability, History of Psychology, Australian Psychologist and Rethinking History, and his literary reviews and essays appear in Griffith Review, Australian Book Review, and other magazines.
Writing
1Towards a Planetary Psychology
James Dunk, ‘Psychology as if the Whole Earth Mattered: Nuclear Threat, Environmental Crisis, and the Emergence of Planetary Psychology,’ History of Psychology 25, no. 2 (2022): 97–120. doi.org/10.1037/hop0000208
2Nuclear Winter and Science/Fiction
James Dunk, ‘Nuclear Winter: Science, Fiction, and Temporal Violence,’ in Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene, edited by Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek (Lexington Books, 2023).
3A Climate Distress Review
Jordan Koder, James Dunk and Paul Rhodes, ‘Climate Distress: A Review of Current Psychological Research and Practice,’ The Psychology of Sustainability: Expanding the Scope, Sustainability 15, no. 10 (2023), 8115. doi.org/10.3390/su15108115.
4Health on an Ailing Planet
James H. Dunk, David S. Jones, Anthony G. Capon & Warwick H. Anderson, 'Human Health on an Ailing Planet — Historical Perspectives on Our Future,' New England Journal of Medicine 381 (2019): 778-82. doi:10.1056/NEJMms1907455
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