Exploring posthuman ethics
Opening new spaces for postqualitative inquiry within pedagogies of the circular economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21570331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Kopnina (0000-0001-7617-2288, Northumbria University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 361-374 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Environmental Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0814-0626 • E-ISSN: 2049-775X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/aee.2021.16 |
| OpenAlex | W3201681382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article discusses closed-loop systems, namely Cradle to Cradle and circular economy, in the context of sustainable education. These circular models, at least ideally, promise absolute decoupling of resource consumption from the economy. This article presents student assignments applying these models to Hennes & Mauritz, a clothing retail company, and insect food producer, Protix. While the discussion of circular economy revolves around the economic benefits of closed-loop systems, it rarely addresses posthumanism. Posthumanism is related to postqualitative theory, inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari emphasize that nature has become intertwined with technology and culture. In the cases discussed, combining both techno- and organic materials produces ‘monstrous hybrids’. It appears that fully circular solutions are rare as absolute decoupling is limited by thermodynamic (im)possibilities. This realization still has to be developed in environmental education. Within this posthumanist inquiry, the larger lesson from the case studies is the necessity of teaching about degrowth in production, consumption and corporate strategy. In pedagogical terms, this article aims to generate a more critical discussion within the environmental education community about how postqualitative inquiry can provide different and distinct perspectives from qualitative inquiry in the context of the circular economy
Circular economy · Deleuze and Guattari · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Sociology · Sustainability · Chemistry and Chemical Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Philosophy · Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Ecology
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Education for the circular economy in higher education
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From Pseudo to Genuine Sustainability Education
Greenwashing and education
Insects as food - Changes in consumers’ acceptance of entomophagy in Hungary between 2016 and 2021
Business education and its paradoxes
The Three Ecologies
Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture
Conceptualizing the circular economy
A review on circular economy
Education for the future? Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals
Postqualitative Inquiry
The need for ecological ethics in a new ecological economics
The social and environmental influences of population growth rate and demographic pressure deserve greater attention in ecological economics
Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy
What new sensibility, configuration or ‘dominant’ logic now for educational theory
Sustaining the unsustainable
Getting Real
Post Qualitative Inquiry in an Ontology of Immanence
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |