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A Case Study. Slow Violence: Art, Climate Change and Social Dreaming

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‘Slow Violence’ was the name give to a social dreaming matrix conducted in the context of an art and climate change exhibition and conference. I present a case study of the matrix that illustrates with quotations form the transcript of the event the theories discussed in previous chapters.

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Notes

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    All quotations from the exhibition leaflet.

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    Ethics approval for the project was granted by the University of Central Lancashire’s Ethics Committee, Number PSYSOC 405

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  • Manley, J. and Hollway, W. (2018 forthcoming). The Unthought Known of Climate Change: How Social Dreaming and Art can be used to think the unthinkable. In Hoggett, P. (Ed.), Climate Psychology: Psycho-Social Research on Human/Nature Relations in the Age of Climate Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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  • Nixon, R. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

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Manley, J. (2018). A Case Study. Slow Violence: Art, Climate Change and Social Dreaming. In: Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92555-4_9

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