Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times
| Main Author: | Malone, Karen. |
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| Other Authors: | Truong, Son., Gray, Tonia., SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[Place of publication not identified] :
Springer Science and Business Media : Springer,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; References; Preface; D'harawal Stories of Cycles and Seasons: Land, Water, and Fire; Introduction; Observation and Experience: The Science of the D'harawal Peoples; The Annual Weather Cycle; The Mudong (11-12 Year) Climate Cycle; The Garuwanga or Dreaming Cycle; The Gathering Place; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Responding to the Anthropocene; Chapter 1: Sustainability, Education, and Anthropocentric Precarity; Precarity in the Anthropocene; Sustainability in the Anthropocene; Precarity and Sustainability Education; Mapping the Ideas.
- Section One: Responding to the Anthropocene Section Two: Re-configuring and Re-worlding; Section Three: Re-reading and Grappling; Section Four: Re-presenting and Re-presencing; Living Well with the Planet; References; Chapter 2: The Anthropocene's Call to Educational Research; Introduction; What Does the Anthropocene Do?; The Context of Advanced Capitalism; The Rise of Posthuman Philosophical Approaches; Postqualitative Methodologies in Educational Research; Entanglement and the Method of 'Intra-action'; 'Common Worlds' and Multi-species Ethnographies; Becoming-Frog.
- Thinking Through Country Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Alternative Paradigms for Sustainability: Decentring the Human Without Becoming Posthuman; Introduction; Of Children's Games and Serious Concerns; The Problem with Posthumanism; Problem One. The Term 'Posthuman' Gives the Impression that It Advocates a Time After-or Post-the Human; Problem Two: Posthumanism Is Conceptually Confusing; Problem Three: The Posthumanist Critique of Dualism Is Thin and Misdirected; Problem Four: Some Posthumanists Anthropomorphise the Very World that They Treat as Beyond the Human.
- Problem Five: Having Damned Dualism, the Posthumanists Themselves Use Unacknowledged Dualisms Problem Six: The Politics of Posthumanism Is Ungrounded; The Trouble with the Triple Bottom Line; Problem One: The Triple Bottom Line Approach Leaves Capitalism Basically Unchallenged; Problem Two: The Triple Bottom Line Approach Re-centres the Economy; Circles of Social Life; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Cosmopolitics of Place: Towards Urban Multispecies Living in Precarious Times; Introduction; Re-imagining Place; Why Multispecies? Why Cosmopolitics?
- Differences Within the Human Species The Humanised City; Learning to Live with Others: Towards Multispecies Place-making; Towards a Politics of Multispecies Presence; Berlin Is Home to the Most Diverse Species of Any European Capital; A Cosmopolitical Invitation; References; Part II: Re-configuring and Re-worlding; Chapter 5: Romancing or Re-configuring Nature in the Anthropocene? Towards Common Worlding Pedagogies; Introduction; What Counts as Nature?; For Whom and at What Cost?; Towards Common World Pedagogies; The Cosmopolitics of Kangaroo-Child Relations; Conclusion; References.