He coined a term solastalgia, which describes "the pain or sickness caused by the inability to derive solace from the present state of one's home environment." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Comment: A new field of science called solastalgia attempts to explain the profound psychological damage that is done when people's connection to the land they love is broken. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Glenn Albrecht, Australian environmental philosopher who coined the term "solastalgia" and co-authored the document "NGO Working Group on the Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being: Guidelines for Action," referenced by the Green Party of BC in their policy statement ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a follow-up, I further object that perhaps this 'solastalgia' idea is not quite appropriate to the Chinese situation because - as I've often observed in my own blog - things change so quickly here that we seldom have a chance to achieve any level of comfort or familiarity with our surroundings. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the past five years, the word "solastalgia" has appeared in media outlets as disparate as Wired, The Daily News in Sri Lanka and Andrew Sullivan's popular political blog, ❋ Unknown (2010)
"solastalgia," a combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root - algia ❋ Unknown (2010)
In a 2004 essay, he coined a term to describe it: "solastalgia," a combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root - algia (pain), which he defined as "the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault ... a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at 'home.' ❋ Unknown (2010)
But isn't Beijing psychologist Tian Guoyan describing something like solastalgia when he says "The old meets the new, the East meets the West, and that leaves a lot of people totally confused"? posted by davesgonechina at ❋ Unknown (2008)
Hello Arlene, you display a truely sophisticated undertsanding of what I mean by solastalgia. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If solastalgia exists in China, then the attitude I've outlined above would seem in natural conflict with that concept. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And everyone who fears that loss is now balking, even as solastalgia begins to take hold. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Albrecht has given this syndrome an evocative name: solastalgia. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thinking more about solastalgia, I think it might have an effect on Chinese psyches, but it also might not. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In my own way, by defining solastalgia, I am trying to get people to recognise it, then work to defeat it. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Matthew: yeah, I'm not thinking Chinese solastalgia is consciously expressed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Quite apart from issues of spelling consistency (you have 'solostalgia', where the original article you excerpt seems to have 'solastalgia'), it is notoriously bad form to combine Latin (solacium) and Greek ('algia') root words (OK, there have been some 'successes' - television the most conspicuous - but in general it is crassly inelegant and unnecessary). ❋ Unknown (2008)
But things like the extermination of sparrows were countrywide, as is rapid development, and perhaps one could posit a sort of culture-wide version of solastalgia, as suddenly all of China is chirpless, gardenless and smogged over within the memory of older generations today not the young ones. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So many people have grown up learning to be indifferent to their situation as a psychological survival strategy against solastalgia. ❋ LeisureGuy (2010)
[The beauty] of the first [blue sky] Ben had seen in days was [tinged] by his feelings of solastalgia. ❋ Benron (2023)
