{"id":90,"date":"2019-06-18T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2021-02-11T19:26:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:26:36","slug":"the-power-of-place-protest-site-pagans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/the-power-of-place-protest-site-pagans\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of place: Protest site pagans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research has established that spending time in the wilderness can have profound effects on people. This \u201cwilderness effect\u201d (Greenway, 1995) usually occurs in truly wild places like the Grand Canyon, but my research shows that it can work its magic in more urban environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I describe this process in my article on \u2018The power of place: Protest site pagans\u2019, which has been published in the European Journal of Ecopsychology<\/em>. The article expands on several themes I\u2019ve explored here, notably Eco-Paganism, the spirit of place and the cognitive iceberg. It\u2019s based on my research with protest camps activists and describes how spending extended periods of time in nature can catalyse profound personal change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article also explains the model of embodied situated cognition that I\u2019ve described as \u2018the cognitive iceberg\u2019 in several posts. In the last section I use the cognitive iceberg model to provide a partial explanation for how the wilderness effect works. I think it works really well as a companion piece to my chapter in The Wanton Green<\/em>, which was published in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n