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The cognitive neuroscience of nature?: Sociological and historical perspective on environmental neuroscience
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2024-09-27
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Fitzgerald, Des
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This chapter concerns some of the key sociological, philosophical, and historical underpinnings of environmental neuroscience. The chapter first outlines the technological and conceptual developments that preceded environmental neuroscience and grounds the field within a wider context of the “post-genomic” sciences. It then turns to earlier attempts to relate human psychology to experiences within particular physical environments, going back to the nineteenth century, before asking whether recent concerns about urbanization and climate change might have motivated a return to such topics. Lastly, the chapter asks environmental neuroscientists to pay attention to the politics of their field, and especially to the politics of consistently advocating for more “natural” or “traditional” environments for human beings. The chapter concludes, optimistically, with an argument that environmental neuroscience is a field “in the making,” with some scope yet to intervene on what will become its core facts and assumptions.
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History of psychology , Politics of neuroscience , Environmental history , Traditional architecture , Urbanization
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Fitzgerald, D. (2024) 'The cognitive neuroscience of nature?: Sociological and historical perspective on environmental neuroscience', in: Kühn, S. (eds) Environmental Neuroscience. Springer, Cham, pp 565–581. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64699-7_22
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© 2024, the Authors, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published as: Fitzgerald, D. (2024) 'The cognitive neuroscience of nature?: Sociological and historical perspective on environmental neuroscience', in: Kühn, S. (eds) Environmental Neuroscience. Springer, Cham, pp 565–581. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64699-7_22