Education, anthropocentrism, and interspecies sustainability

Confronting Institutional Anxieties in Omnicidal Times

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8076136
AutoresHelena Pedersen (0000-0002-4693-3258, University of Gothenburg, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen16
Número2
Páginas164-177
Fecha de publicación2021-03-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthics and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-9642 • E-ISSN: 1744-9650
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449642.2021.1896639
OpenAlexW3138217610
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas30

Deborah Britzman’s remarkable question, ‘What holds education back?’, appears more urgent than ever in a world of accelerating environmental crises, climate change, and what has been described as omnicide – the annihilation of everything. What, then, holds education back from initiating radical change under these urgent conditions? This paper introduces the notion of ‘institutional anxiety’ as a consolidating force and explores how it may condition possibilities for resistance. Bringing examples from ethnographic fieldwork and experiences of course development in conversation with psychoanalytic and schizoanalytic thought, a key catalyst of institutional anxiety is discussed: Anxiety related to ‘the question of the animal’ as a threat to human exceptionalism in educational practice and research. Confronting these anxieties could open new modes of being and acting in academic space and give interspecies ethics, justice and sustainability a chance to develop in omnicidal times

Anthropocentrism · Conversation · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Exceptionalism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Anthropology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Ecology