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PEDAGOGIES FOR THE POST-ANTHROPOCENE IBD

SPRINGER
11 / 2022
9789811657900
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Sinopsis

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.áThis 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 âÇÖyouth despairâÇÖ about the future is becoming persistent. It investigates how the imaginary of âÇÖApocalypseâÇÖ 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 âÇÖRevolutionâÇÖ 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 âÇÖinvestableâÇÖ 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 âÇÖless thanâÇÖ is necessary, then this kind of Utopia shows us how becoming âÇÖmore thanâÇÖ human may be the future.á