Educating for the Anthropocene
Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence
Published on 1. November 2022
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Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-262-54417-7 (ISBN)
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"Based on a multi-sited ethnography among schools and activist groups in India and South Africa, this study offers an exploration of education practices in the context of impoverished, marginal communities where environmental crises intersect with colonial and racist histories and unsustainable presents"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
39 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54417-7 (9780262544177)
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Peter Sutoris is an environmental anthropologist, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Education at the University of York, and Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Part I Learning to Live in the Anthropocene
Dilemma 1 The Shock of Recognition: (De)Politicizing Education 3
1 Introduction: Education's Task in the Anthropocene 7
2 A Bittersweet Landscape 39
Part II Schooling on the High Anthropocene's Frontier
Dilemma 2 Representing Liminality: Total Institution or Tough Love? 61
3 The Origins of Depoliticization 67
4 Reading the Cultural Landscapes of Schooling: Depoliticization and Hope 99
Part III What is the Alternative?
Dilemma 3 The Myth of Impartiality, or How I (Almost) Became an Activist 147
5 Environmental Activism: An Answer to Educating for the Anthropocene 151
6 Toward a Different Anthropocene Politics 195
Notes 211
References 241
Index 271
Abbreviations xiii
Part I Learning to Live in the Anthropocene
Dilemma 1 The Shock of Recognition: (De)Politicizing Education 3
1 Introduction: Education's Task in the Anthropocene 7
2 A Bittersweet Landscape 39
Part II Schooling on the High Anthropocene's Frontier
Dilemma 2 Representing Liminality: Total Institution or Tough Love? 61
3 The Origins of Depoliticization 67
4 Reading the Cultural Landscapes of Schooling: Depoliticization and Hope 99
Part III What is the Alternative?
Dilemma 3 The Myth of Impartiality, or How I (Almost) Became an Activist 147
5 Environmental Activism: An Answer to Educating for the Anthropocene 151
6 Toward a Different Anthropocene Politics 195
Notes 211
References 241
Index 271