Postcritical knowledge ecology in the Anthropocene

Yoshifumi Nakagawa, Phillip G. Payne

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    Abstract

    The always vexed relationships between philosophy, theory, methodology, empirical work and their representations and legitimations have been thrown into chaos with the belated acknowledgement of the Anthropocene. Unsurprisingly, traditional Western thought may have been complicit, given its underlying anthropocentric assumptions and humanist commitments in education philosophy, theory and practice. The postcritical knowledge ecology developed here is applied to both a modest and responsible form of methodological inquiry in an ethnographic study of nature experience. Our contextualised experiment adds to the nascent literature of an environmentally oriented education now demanded in the Anthropocene.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)559-571
    Number of pages13
    JournalEducational Philosophy and Theory
    Volume51
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

    Keywords

    • knowledge ecology
    • modesty
    • postcritical
    • postrepresentation
    • responsibility
    • The Anthropocene

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