In Search of Manifestations and Imaginations of the Climate Crisis: A Longitudinal Analysis of an Online Diary

Article Article scientifique Article In Search of Manifestations and Imaginations of the Climate Crisis: A Longitudinal Analysis of an Online Diary eng 2025-10-01 2025-12 author Perrin Maeva 0009-0001-0796-1942 Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland. maeva.perrin@unige.ch. 923625 Section des sciences de l'éducation (SSED) author Pedersen Oliver Clifford 0000-0001-7277-2606 Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Neuchâtel, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 10.1007/s12124-025-09941-4 41032068 1932-4502 https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12124-025-09941-4 Crises are not all sudden and spectacular - some are incremental and manifest in unlikely places. We explore how one person's experience and imagination of the climate crisis developed across 24 years of online diary writing. This longitudinal analysis captures the subtle shifts in people's experience close to real time, allowing us to theorise when and how the climate crisis is manifested, felt, and imagined. We move beyond the common definition of crisis as an exceptional disruption in time, recognising that it can also be a slow and elusive process, and instead ask which events bring the climate crisis to the forefront of people's experience. The analysis highlights three periods with imaginative transformations, detailing a temporal realignment and gradual differentiation. Moving from a distant cloud on the horizon into the present, the diarist's imagination increasingly gains concrete and apocalyptic form. In tandem, we trace fluctuations in eco-emotions to challenge static and linear categorisations, suggesting that the dichotomy between indirect and direct manifestations is intimately entangled through time and scaffold the imagination. Our research attempts to provide a dynamic and contextually sensitive approach to study and understand how the climate crisis is experienced and imagined over time. Climate crisis Eco-anxiety Futures Imagination Longitudinal Dewey 370 109 Section des sciences de l'éducation 72 false 1307 Identités et apprentissages en contextes de transition (I-ACT) Integrative psychological & behavioral science 59 4 33509523-2cec-47cc-ac02-a5f98afbfe2d Article (Published version) Public Article_scientifique_from_crossref.pdf 949160 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 03512bb075c948cc8447a2d3fb7d93055d2becc4c58cdae9170db8b0293be023 openAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section des sciences de l'éducation

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