Professor Glenn Albrecht
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Professor Glenn Albrecht

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Professor Glenn Albrecht

Glenn A. Albrecht is an Honorary Associate in the School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He retired as Professor of Sustainability, Walter Murdoch University, in mid-2014. He continues to work as an environmental philosopher and published a book, Earth Emotions, with Cornell University Press in 2019. Earth Emotions was published in French and Spanish in 2020 and in Dutch in 2024.

In numerous publications and public talks over the last two decades, Dr Albrecht has developed the theme of the psychoterratic (psyche-earth), or negative and positive emotional states connected to the state of the Earth. New concepts, developed by him, are now becoming well established in the international scholarly literature, new research theses and as inspiration for many creative people in the arts and music.

While he is best known for creating the concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change, his most recent work develops the mega-meme of the Symbiocene, a future state where humans re-integrate with the rest of nature. A book of that title should be completed by the end of 2024. He currently lives at Blackheath on Gundungurra land in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia.

Environmental philosophy, Earth emotions, the Symbiocene, solastalgia and other psychoterratic states.

A book on the Symbiocene to be published with Cornell University Press.

Publications

Books

  • Albrecht, G. (2019). Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [More Information]
  • McManus, P., Albrecht, G., Graham, R. (2013). The Global Horseracing Industry: Social, economic, environmental and ethical perspectives. New York: Routledge. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Albrecht, G. (2018). Public heritage in the symbiocene. In Angela M. Labrador, Neil Asher Silberman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice, (pp. 1-14). Online: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Albrecht, G., Higginbotham, N., Connor, L., Ellis, N. (2017). Social and Cultural Perspectives on Ecology and Health. In Stella R. Quah (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Public Health 2nd Edition, (pp. 551-556). Singapore: Elsevier. [More Information]
  • Albrecht, G. (2017). Solastalgia and the New Mourning. In Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman (Eds.), Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief, (pp. 292-315). Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.

Journals

  • Albrecht, G. (2020). Negating Solastalgia:An Emotional Revolution from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene. American Imago, 77(1), 9-30. [More Information]
  • Albrecht, G. (2020). The extinction of rights and the extantion of ghehds. Griffith Law Review, 29(4), 513-533. [More Information]
  • McBain, B., Lenzen, M., Albrecht, G., Wackernagel, M. (2018). Building Robust Housing Sector Policy Using the Ecological Footprint. Resources, 7(2), 1-17. [More Information]

2020

  • Albrecht, G. (2020). Negating Solastalgia:An Emotional Revolution from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene. American Imago, 77(1), 9-30. [More Information]
  • Albrecht, G. (2020). The extinction of rights and the extantion of ghehds. Griffith Law Review, 29(4), 513-533. [More Information]

2019

  • Albrecht, G. (2019). Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [More Information]

2018

  • McBain, B., Lenzen, M., Albrecht, G., Wackernagel, M. (2018). Building Robust Housing Sector Policy Using the Ecological Footprint. Resources, 7(2), 1-17. [More Information]
  • Albrecht, G. (2018). Public heritage in the symbiocene. In Angela M. Labrador, Neil Asher Silberman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice, (pp. 1-14). Online: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

2017

  • Ellis, N., Albrecht, G. (2017). Climate change threats to family farmers’ sense of place and mental wellbeing: A case study from the Western Australian Wheatbelt. Social Science and Medicine, 175, 161-168. [More Information]
  • McBain, B., Lenzen, M., Wackernagel, M., Albrecht, G. (2017). How long can global ecological overshoot last? Global and Planetary Change, 155, 13-19. [More Information]
  • McBain, B., Lenzen, M., Albrecht, G., Wackernagel, M. (2017). Reducing the ecological footprint of urban cars. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 12(2), 117-127. [More Information]

2014

  • McManus, P., Albrecht, G., Graham, R. (2014). Psychoterratic geographies of the Upper Hunter region, Australia. Geoforum, 51, 58-65. [More Information]
  • Albrecht, G., Ellis, N. (2014). The Ethics of Resource Extraction and Processing: Two Western Australian Case Studies. In Brueckner, M., Durey, A., Mayes, R., Pforr, C. (Eds.), Resource Curse or Cure? On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia, (pp. 43-57). Germany: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [More Information]

2013

  • McManus, P., Albrecht, G., Graham, R. (2013). The Global Horseracing Industry: Social, economic, environmental and ethical perspectives. New York: Routledge. [More Information]

2012

  • Montoya, D., McManus, P., Albrecht, G. (2012). Jumping to Conclusions? Media Coverage of Jumps Racing Debates in Australia. Society and Animals, 20, 1-21. [More Information]

2011

  • McManus, P., Albrecht, G., Graham, R. (2011). Constructing Thoroughbred Breeding Landscapes: Manufactured Idylls in the Upper Hunter Region of Australia. In Stanley D Brunn (Eds.), Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, (pp. 1323-1339). Dordrecht: Springer. [More Information]

Extensive international media exposure related to his work on solastlagia and the Symbiocene. For examle, in 2024:

Recent Talks

France, 19th February. Live Zoom on ‘Earthling emotions and Creativity’ for the Université Côte d'Azur. "Théâtre & Transition: écologie profonde, intelligence collective" (Ttépic).

Amsterdam, 14 February. Video Contribution. Curious About The Symbiocene - Earth and Humanity: A Toxic Affair. The A Lab Amsterdam and Vandejong, Holland.

Holland, 8thDecember 2023. Zoom talk on Sumbiotecture and Symbiocene City, for The Radical Inclusive City and Transnatural.

Australia, 15thNovember 2023. Jervis Bay NSW: Live talk on Earth Emotions, Jervis Bay Brewing Co, Wednesday.

Australia, Saturday 25thNovember 2023. The Lyrebird Festival. Live talk on The Symbiocene, Megalong Community Hall, Megalong Valley, NSW.

Thailand, Wednesday, 29th November 2023. Zoom talk on the Symbiocene for Chiang Mai University, AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab, Webinar series on "Seeking Symbiopoeisis with the More-Than-Human Against the Anthropocene.”

Australia, 8th November 2023). NSW: Purpose Conference live talk (with Andy Marks and Kate Hurst) on the Symbiocene.

Recent International References/Projects

Samantha K. Stanley et al 2024. Solastalgia following the Australian summer of bushfires: Qualitative and quantitative insights about environmental distress and recovery,https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027249442400046X

Camila de Lira, 2024:https://fastcompanybrasil.com/esg/caos-climatico-cria-novo-sentimento-solastalgia/

Peter Nasielski 2024:https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-peter-nasielski-proposes-symbiocene-as-a-non-extractive-bioactive-model?fbclid=IwAR3vAf6IGM_XxINCQ4znRqdugd77WjeXjOpKcxoD1lQ_kgLARiyY6UONhWs

PLP Architects 2023:https://plplabs.com/symbiocene/

In the media

Extensive media profile in Europe, especially connected to the French, Spanish and Dutch translations of his book, Earth Emotions (CUP 2019).