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Priyadharshini, Esther 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9509-2865
(2021)
Pedagogies for the post-Anthropocene:Lessons from Apocalypse, Revolution and Utopia.
Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
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Springer, Singapore.
ISBN 978-981-16-5787-0
Abstract
This book draws on posthumanist critique and post qualitative approaches to research to examine the pedagogies offered by imaginaries of the future. Starting with the question of how education can be a process for imagining and desiring better futures that can shorten the Anthropocene, it speaks to concerns that are relevant to the fields of education, youth and futures studies. This book explores lessons from the imaginaries of apocalypse, revolution and utopia, drawing on research from youth(ful) perspectives in a context when the narrative of ‘youth despair’ about the future is becoming persistent. It investigates how the imaginary of 'Apocalypse' acts as a frame of intelligibility, a way of making sense of the monstrosities of the present and also instigates desires to act in different ways. Studying the School Climate Strikes of 2019 as 'Revolution' moves us away from the teleologies of capitalist consumption and endless growth to newer aesthetics. The strikes function as a public pedagogy that creates new publics that include life beyond the human. Finally, the book explores how the Utopias of Afrofuturist fiction provides us with a kind of 'investable' utopia because the starting point is in racial, economic and ecological injustice. If the Apocalypse teaches us to recognize what needs to go, and Revolution accepts that living with ‘less than’ is necessary, then this kind of Utopia shows us how becoming ‘more than’ human may be the future.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Critical Cultural Studies In Education |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2021 13:16 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Apr 2023 14:04 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82608 |
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