Ecological emotions

Can we “understand” bees by listening to them?

Could sounds act as emphatic bridges for interspecies communication?

These are some questions I explore in this paper: Droz, L. (Forthcoming Fall 2025) “Resonating with Bees’ Emotions: Sounds as Empathic Bridges For Interspecies Understanding”, Environmental Philosophy Preprint at philpapers.

(Photo credits: Aljaž Kavčič)

This work is part on my ongoing research focus is ecological emotions (especially ecological grief and music).

Below is a tentative sketch of cycles of ecological emotions, based on the available literature, my ongoing research and my own experience. I develop this cycle in a collaborative work on cycles of ecological emotions, and their expressions in eco-documentaries: Droz, L., Baudet, J., 2024. “How Do Ecological Emotions Emerge? An analysis of contemporary Swiss eco-documentaries”, Journal Visual Arts, Special Issue: “The Emotions of Late Anthropocene in Visual Arts”. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2024.2328415

Some of the references and details regarding the literature are available on my poster.

If you would like to reach out to exchange more on this theme, don’t hesitate!