Education, anthropocentrism, and interspecies sustainability
Confronting Institutional Anxieties in Omnicidal Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8076136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Pedersen (0000-0002-4693-3258, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164-177 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9642 • E-ISSN: 1744-9650 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449642.2021.1896639 |
| OpenAlex | W3138217610 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 30 |
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
Heretical patagogy
The Educacene
Rewilding the Critical-Constructive Bildung Tradition with Nature as Co-Teacher
Attributing Human Traits to Other Species as Alignment Work
Re-Animalizing Animal Farm
Addressing animal slaughter in school
Urgencia Ético-Ambiental
Imagining the ecosocial within social work
Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education
Bridging generations
Education for sustainable development in the ‘Capitalocene’
Being bird and sensory learning activities
After-Education
The Ahuman Manifesto
The Minor Gesture
Foucault, Michel . Abnormal
Animals in environmental education research
So what for other animals? Environmental education research after the animal turn
A posthuman approach to human-animal relationships
Anti-Oedipus
Education after the end of the world. How can education be viewed as a hyperobject
Moralizing meat consumption
Our Children and Other Animals
Pedagogy at the brink of the post-anthropocene
Education for Total Liberation
A course is a course, of course, of course (unless it’s an animals and society course)
A thousand plateaus
The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity
Education for sustainable development (ESD)
Listen, Ecological Marxist! (yes, I saidAnimals)
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative
The Climate of History
Our Children and Other Animals
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |