Children of an Earth to Come

Speculative Fiction, Geophilosophy and Climate Change Education Research

Bibliographic Data

ID8924677
AuthorsD Rousell (0000-0002-4509-6128, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Amy Cutter‐mackenzie (0000-0002-2499-8552, Southern Cross University), Amy Cutter-Mackenzie (Southern Cross University), J W Foster, Jasmyne Foster (Banora Point High School)
Year2017
Volume53
Issue6
Pages654-669
Publication date2017-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131946.2017.1369086
OpenAlexW2761108000
LanguageEN
Citations received45
References cited28

Over the last 3 years, the Climate Change and Me project has mapped children and young people's affective, creative, and ontological relationships with climate change through an emergent and child-framed research methodology. The project has involved working with 135 children and young people from across Northern NSW, Australia, as coresearchers responding to the rapidly changing material conditions of the Anthropocene epoch. In this article, we position speculative fiction as a mode of creative research that enabled the young researchers to inhabit possible climate change futures. This node of the Climate Change and Me research was initiated by coauthor Jasmyne, who at the time was a year 7 student at a local high school. Through an ongoing series of visual and textual posts on the project web site, Jasmyne created an alternate world in which children develop mutant forces and bodily augmentations that enable them to resist social and environmental injustices. Drawing on these visual and textual entries in dialogue with Deleuze and Guattari's geophilosophy, we consider ways that speculative fiction might offer new conceptual tools for a viral strain of climate change education that proliferates through aesthetic modes of expression

Anthropocene · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Futures contract · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Ecology · History · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Science Education and Perceptions

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