Immigration and the Question of Dwelling in the Anthropocene Age: A Political Pastoral Perspective
Relying on a political pastoral perspective, this article considers the issue of dwelling in the Anthropocene Age with a particular focus on climate migration and climate refugees. I begin with the question "What does it mean to dwell?" relying first on a psychosocial developmental perspec...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2024
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2024, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 179-196 |
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Theology
B Anthropocene B Dwelling B Immigration B Refugee B Vulnerability B Political B Pastoral |
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| Summary: | Relying on a political pastoral perspective, this article considers the issue of dwelling in the Anthropocene Age with a particular focus on climate migration and climate refugees. I begin with the question "What does it mean to dwell?" relying first on a psychosocial developmental perspective as a response. This sets the stage for depicting the movement from the pre-political space of parents and children speaking and acting together—embodied-relational dwelling—to dwelling in the public-political sphere, wherein a decent society manifests sufficient civic care and civic faith for experiences of being at home in the political-social world. Indecent societies, by contrast, demonstrate a lack of civic care (e.g., racism, classism, sexism) for some residents and immigrant/refugee groups and, through varied disciplinary regimes, evict and deport people as well as contribute to overall psychosocial-political experiences of homelessness. These two sections provide the foundation for moving to a political pastoral theological perspective that focuses on vulnerability vis-à-vis dwelling, relying on Giorgi Agamben’s use of the terms "inoperativity" and "coming community"—ideas that are, in my view, connected to Christian mythoi, kenosis, and the kingdom of God. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-022-01041-z |