Denial (Verneinung) and socio-environmental issues: questions for Environmental Education (EE)

Authors

  • Ana Lizete Farias Programa de Pós-Graduação em Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (PPGMADE), Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v60i0.80312

Keywords:

denialism, psychoanalysis, Freud, environmental education, environmental crisis

Abstract

This essay aims to bring some elements of Freud and Lacan's psychoanalysis, in order to contribute to the discussion about negationism and its consequences in Environmental Education practices. The government in office in Brazil, since 2018, has used a denial narrative to legitimize a process of extermination not only of natural assets, but also of the most vulnerable populations, materialized in the trivialization and slowness in implementing protective measures. However, this way of governing is not exclusive to this government, it precedes us and evidences a political discourse, even if the subject in question does not intend to or recognize  oneself literally as political. It is necessary, then, to question the Environmental Education, facing the malaise of denialism and its link with the unconscious.

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Published

2022-08-12

How to Cite

Farias, A. L. (2022). Denial (Verneinung) and socio-environmental issues: questions for Environmental Education (EE). Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 60. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v60i0.80312

Issue

Vol. 60 (2022): Socio-environmental dismantling and emerging resistance - Risks on the global periphery from a Lusophone perspective

Section

Socio-environmental dismantling and emerging resistances

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