Postdigital Ecopedagogies

This book conceptualizes ecopedagogies as forms of educational innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals, objects, stuff, and other forms of matter. Contemporary postdigital ecosystems are determined by a range of new bioinformational reconfigurations in areas including capitalism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, and ontological hierarchies more generally. Postdigital ecopedagogies name a condition, a question, and a call for experimentation to link pedagogical research and practice to challenges of our moment. They pose living, breathing, expanding, contracting, fluid, and spatial conditions and questions of our non-chronological present. This book presents analyses of that present from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to education studies, philosophy, politics, sociology, arts, and architecture.

Auteur

Petar Jandric is Professor at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His previous academic affiliations include Croatian Academic and Research Network, National e-Science Centre at the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow School of Art, and Cass School of Education at the University of East London. He is Editor-in-Chief of Postdigital Science and Education journal and book series.

Derek R. Ford is Assistant Professor of Education Studies at DePauw. He's written six books, the latest of which is Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect: Beyond the Knowledge Economy (2021) and Inhuman Educations: Jean-François Lyotard, Pedagogy, Thought (2021). He's associate editor of Postdigital Science and Education and assistant editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. Ford is also a contributing editor at The Hampton Institute.

Contenu

Foreword

Peter McLaren

Introduction

1. Petar Jandric (Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia) and Derek Ford (DePauw University, USA)

Part 1: Theories

2. Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures - Petar Jandric (Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia) and Derek Ford (DePauw University, USA)

3. Hypermodernity, Adaptation, and Education - Alexander J. Means (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA)

4. Dialogic teleologies in the great reset - Greta Goetz (Univrsity of Belgrade, Serbia)

5. Touching Correspondence: Walking dogs and writing letters - Angela Inez Baldus and Samuel D. Rocha University of British Columbia

6. Postdigital voices: Subjectivity, power, and pedagogy - Derek Ford, Katie Swenson, and Meg Fosher DePauw Unviersity

Part 2: Decolonization

7. Decolonizing Ecopedagogies: Beyond a Settler Education - Hugh Burnam, Syracuse University

8. Postdigital Ecopedagogical Praxis: Toward Decolonial And Affirmative Biopolitical Horizons - Gregory Bourasa, University of Iowa

   9. Pan African Socialism and Decolonial Trajectories: Postdigital Implications - Curry Malott (West Chester University, USA)

9. Insurrectional democracy, military perversion and the quest for environmental peace: the last frontiers of ecopedagogy before us - Paul R. Carr (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)

10. Ecopedagogy and new imaginaries: Can critical media literacy offer hope for reimagining a world without 'digital divides' of (neo)coloniality, (eco)racism, and anthropocentrism? - Greg William Misiaszek, David Yisrael Epstein-HaLevi, Stephan Reindl

11. A diffractive vision for postdigital tertiary education in a "Hybrid University" in Aotearoa, New Zealand. - Mahdis Azarmandi, Cheryl Brown, Sara Tolbert, Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury

Part 3: Education

13. Composting the anti-human University - Richard Hall, DeMontfort University, UK

14. Ecopedagogies of attainment and progress in postdigital contexts (Sarah Hayes, University of Wolverhampton, UK)

15. Towards second-wave architectural ecopedagogies: the continuing need for revolutionary praxes in built environment education - James Benedict Brown (Umeå University, Sweden)

16. Speculative Postdigital Ecopedagogies and Cinematic Cephalopods: Thinking-with (yet-to-come) Walks with Strangers - (Victoria O'Sullivan, University of Auckland, NZ)

17. Ear to the Ground: The Pedagogical Potential of Site-Specific Sound Art - (Noni Brynjolson, University of Indianapolis, US)

18. Postdigital intercreative pedagogies: ecoeducational practices for the commons - Carlos Escaño & Julia Mañero (University of Sevilla, Spain)

19. Ecopedagogy is the Pedagogy Against Capital: Need for a Radical Rupturing of the Dehumanised Façade Beyond the Concessionary Liberal Politics - Ravi Kumar

20. Malfunctioning right in our backyards OR the strangeness of ecological awareness - (Jesse Bazzul and Valerie Triggs)

21. Greta's Choice - (Juha Suoranta, University of Tampere, Finland)

Afterword To be decided