Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

From Global Citizenship to Anthropocene Denizenship

The Challenge to Education for Sustainable Development

Bibliographic Data

ID12905955
AuthorsIgnasi Ribó (0000-0001-7821-316X, Mae Fah Luang University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume65
Issue1
Pages75-92
Publication date2023-06-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17508487.2023.2222762
OpenAlexW4380358556
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited81

This article connects instrumental, emancipatory, and critical approaches to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with the different cultural responses or grand narratives of the Anthropocene: eco-modernist, eco-catastrophist, and eco-socialist. The tensions between these different approaches are explained by ESD’s reliance on the ideals of citizenship and the global, which are also at the heart of the Global Citizenship Education (GCE) curriculum. It is argued that the Anthropocene puts into question both ideals, by forcing us to recognise that humans and nonhumans are denizens with limited rights and expanded obligations, all interconnected with each other through the multiple and complex relations of living-together or cohabitation. In this context, ESD needs to move beyond the humanist and liberal ideal of education as a way to form active and engaged citizens able to deal with the global environmental crisis and pursue instead a posthumanist curriculum for Anthropocene Denizenship Education. This proposal aims to overcome anthropocentric pedagogies and encourage learners to develop an embodied, affective, experienced, relational sense of becoming-together with other co-inhabitants of the Earth by cultivating vulner-abilities, attend-abilities, and response-abilities

Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Citizenship · Citizenship education · Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Education for sustainable development · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Global Citizenship Education · Humanism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sustainable development · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

  • Students’ Leadership Is the Key

    Open Access•Miloslav Kolenatý, Jan Činčera•Australian Journal of Environmental…•2025

  • Ireland’s ESD to 2030

    Emma Morrissey Gleeson•Irish Educational Studies•2025

  • On global citizenship education in a new conjuncture

    Open Access•Q Maire, Stephen Chatelier et al.•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2026

  • Education for sustainability and physical education

    Open Access•Thomas Royet, Olivier Vors et al.•Sport Education and Society•2024

  • Local awareness, extracurricular activities, and youth identity

    Zulfa Sakhiyya, Rangga Kala Mahaswa et al.•Environmental Education Research•2025

  • Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom

    Ignasi Ribó•Environmental Education Research•2024

  • Geo-philosophising the Anthropocene curriculum

    Rangga Kala Mahaswa, Siti Murtiningsih et al.•Educational Philosophy and Theory•2026

  • Posthumanism and Higher Education

    Open Access•Carol A Taylor, Annouchka Bayley•Posthumanism and Higher Education•2019

  • Romancing or Re-configuring Nature in the Anthropocene? Towards Common Worlding Pedagogies

    Open Access•Affrica Taylor•Reimagining Sustainability in…•2017

  • Citizenship and the Environment

    Amy Dobson, Andrew Dobson•Citizenship and the environment•2003

  • The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis

    Open Access•Clive Hamilton, Christophe Bonneuil et al.•The anthropocene and the global…•2015

  • The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago

    Open Access•William F Ruddiman•Climatic Change•2003

  • Can we meet the sustainability challenges? The role of education and lifelong learning

    Open Access•Arjen Wals, Arjen E J Wals et al.•European Journal of Education•2017

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Open Access•Colin N Waters, J Zalasiewicz et al.•Science•2016

  • Planetary boundaries

    Open Access•Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson et al.•Science•2015

  • Geology of mankind

    Open Access•Paul J Crutzen, Sheldon A Zabel•Nature•2002

  • A safe operating space for humanity

    Open Access•Johan Rockström, Will Steffen et al.•Nature•2009

  • Pedagogies of mattering

    Open Access•Karen Gravett, C A Taylor et al.•Teaching in Higher Education•2024

  • Learning for life

    Open Access•Rikard Warlenius, Rikard Hjorth Warlenius•The Journal of Environmental…•2022

  • Education for the future? Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals

    H Kopnina•The Journal of Environmental…•2020

  • Decentring the Human in Multispecies Ethnographies

    Open Access•Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw et al.•Posthuman Research Practices in…•2016

  • Pedagogical Matters

    E Truman, Zofia Zaliwska et al.•Pedagogical Matters•2016

  • Animal Oppression and Capitalism

    David Nibert•Animal Oppression and Capitalism•2017

  • The World System and the Earth System

    Alf Hornborg, Carole L Crumley•World System and the Earth System•2016

  • Risk Society

    Ulrich Beck•Encyclopedia of Social Theory•2005

  • Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

    Affrica Taylor•Reconfiguring the Natures of…•2013

  • Cultivating Humanity

    Martha C Nussbaum•Cultivating Humanity•1998

  • Reassembling the Social

    Bruno Latour•REASSEMBLING THE SOCIAL: AN…•2005

  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    Philippe Descola, Janet Lloyd et al.•Beyond Nature and Culture•2013

  • The task of education as we confront the potential for social and ecological collapse

    Vanessa De Oliveira Andreotti•Ethics and Education•2021

  • A discourse-analytical perspective on sustainability assessment

    Open Access•Jean Hugé, Tom Waas et al.•Sustainability Science•2012

  • An ideology critique of global citizenship education

    Ana Pais, Marta da Costa•Critical Studies in Education•2017

  • Education and climate change

    Veslemøy Wiese•Journal of Peace Education•2012

  • Indigenous Struggles, Environmental Justice, and Community Capabilities

    David Schlosberg, David Carruthers•Global Environmental Politics•2010

  • The global dimension in education and education for global citizenship

    G Mannion, Gert Biesta et al.•Globalisation Societies and…•2011

  • Beyond stewardship

    Affrica Taylor•Environmental Education Research•2017

  • Governing ‘eco-certified children’ through pastoral power

    Malin Ideland, Claes Malmberg•Environmental Education Research•2014

  • Neoliberalism and education

    B Davies, Peter Bansel•International Journal of…•2007

  • The ‘Environmentalism of the Poor’ revisited

    Open Access•Isabelle Anguelovski, J Martínez‐alier•Ecological Economics•2014

  • A meta-review of typologies of global citizenship education

    Open Access•Karen Pashby, Marta da Costa et al.•Comparative Education•2020

  • Green Citizenship

    Open Access•Hartley Dean•Social Policy and Administration•2001

  • What is social sustainability? A clarification of concepts

    Open Access•Suzanne Vallance, Harvey C Perkins et al.•Geoforum•2011

  • Saving squawk? Animal and human entanglement at the edge of the lagoon

    Susanne Gannon•Environmental Education Research•2015

  • Ordinary affect and its powers

    Dianne Mulcahy, Sarah Healy•Curriculum Studies•2021

  • We Have Never Been Modern

    T Hugh Crawford, Tony Crawford•Configurations•1994

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Open Access•J Zalasiewicz, Colin N Waters et al.•Quaternary International•2015

  • Semiotic alignment

    Open Access•Ignasi Ribó•Semiotica•2019

  • The five dimensions of sustainability

    Lucas Seghezzo•Environmental Politics•2009

  • The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative

    Open Access•Andreas Malm, A Hornborg•The Anthropocene Review•2014

  • Climate change through the lens of intersectionality

    Anna Kaijser, Annica Kronsell•Environmental Politics•2014

  • We are all denizens now

    B Turner, Bryan S Turner•Citizenship Studies•2016

  • Globalisation, Cosmopolitanism and the Environment

    Open Access•Amy Dobson, Andrew Dobson•International Relations•2005

  • Poetics of Cohabitation

    Ignasi Ribó•Poetics Today•2022

  • Is 'the posthuman' educable? On the convergence of educational philosophy, animal studies, and posthumanist theory

    Open Access•Helena Pedersen•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2010

  • Politics of Nature

    Bruno Latour, Caitlin Porter et al.•Politics of Nature•2004

  • A Political Ecology of Education in/for the Anthropocene

    Open Access•Teresa Lloro-Bidart•Environment and Society•2015

  • Staying With the Trouble

    Open Access•Fikile Nxumalo, Courtney B Cook et al.•Qualitative Inquiry•2020

  • Climate and Capital

    Dipesh Chakrabarty•Critical Inquiry•2014

  • The Climate of History

    Dipesh Chakrabarty•Critical Inquiry•2009

Unique citing works7
Citations per year3,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7

Tools

Open DOI
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae