Making Kin With Plastic Through Aesthetic Experimentation

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ID22124246
AuthorsLouisa Penfold (Harvard University Press), Louisa Kate Penfold, Nina Odegard (0000-0001-8538-9980, Metropolitan University)
Year2021
Pages51-65
Publication date2021-07-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Childhood Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2371-4107 • E-ISSN: 2371-4115
PublisherUniversity of Victoria Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18357/jcs462202119559
OpenAlexW3183076398
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Recent scholarship in childhood studies has raised concerns about humancentric, singular discourses regarding human-plastic relations. As a result, questions of how to develop new forms of learning with materials in environmental education are now an important issue for researchers, educators, and policymakers. This paper activates a feminist new materialist ontology to position plastic as an active participant in the formation of knowledge. Drawing on visual imagery of children’s and artists’ aesthetic experimentations, we explore the intra-related and complex relationship between plastic, children, and the planet. Haraway’s concept of making kin is operationalized to highlight plastic’s multidimensional complexities as both a destructive and creative force, producing a novel framework for understanding and learning with plastic in early childhood education

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Materialism · Operationalization · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Art Education and Development · Children's Rights and Participation · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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