Dr Matthew Adams
Small Group Project 2016
The thrown away: towards a manifesto of dispossession
With Jayne Raisborough
Despite the increasing accumulation of plastic in our oceans and food chains, ‘throwing stuff away’ is so tied to notions of order and cleanliness that any deviation is pathologised as ‘hoarding’ and as such provides a ready spectacle to a reality television programming devoted to the ‘ill-managed’ lives of those who hoard or clutter. Outside of the DSM and beyond the small screen, the issue of waste and the practices and processes of dispossession are less visible.
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Matthew is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Brighton, and Chartered Psychologist. His research has focused on the role of natural environments in mental health and wellbeing; our relationships with animals and the natural world; and how we experience and make sense of climate and ecological crisis. He works with a range of qualitative and arts-based research methods, including visual and comics-based research.
Matthew is the author of the books Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-Than-Human World(2020), Ecological Crisis, Sustainability & the Psychosocial Subject: Beyond Behaviour Change (2016) and Self & Social Change (2008).
Matthew is the author of the books Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-Than-Human World(2020), Ecological Crisis, Sustainability & the Psychosocial Subject: Beyond Behaviour Change (2016) and Self & Social Change (2008).
Biographical details correct as of 18.05.26