When: Monday 16th March 2026
Time: 7:30pm to 8:45pm
Where: Online Event
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Anastasios Gaitanidis will be in conversation Luisa Pretolani about his new book Wilderness and Ecopsychology: From Anthropocentrism to Ecological Awareness (Routledge, 2025).
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Wilderness and Ecopsychology: From Anthropocentrism to Ecological Awareness offers a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom to diagnose the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.
The book begins by deconstructing wilderness as both geographical reality and psychological construct, tracing its evolution from Enlightenment instrumentality through Romantic idealisation to contemporary relational understandings. In doing so, it examines how dominant narratives illuminate our ambivalent encounter with wilderness as both threat and salvation. The book then moves on to explore concrete alternatives to extractive agriculture, positioning reciprocal land stewardship and agroecological practices as embodiments of interspecies ethics. The culminating vision articulates a ‘wild psychology’ that advocates for collective liberation through practices of deep attention, material engagement, and transformative empathy offering not solutions but threshold experiences for reimagining human-earth relationships beyond the ruins of modernity.
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This is an online event only.
Please Note: This event is going to be recorded, and the recording will be made available to attendees for FREE.
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THERE WILL BE NO REFUNDS.