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Animist Pedagogies and the Endings of Worlds: Rituals for the Pluriverse
Doing Rebellious Research, pp.263-281
Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, Volume: 23, BRILL
27/04/2022
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Abstract
This chapter elaborates a series of decolonial encounters with extinction under the shadow of catastrophic climate change. It explores how rituals can sustain arts of living in the thresholds between worlds that are ending, and others that are just coming into existence. Disrupting figurations of a universal humanity facing the End of the World, we turn to the rebellious concept of the pluriverse to bring critical attention to the role of ritual in facing multiple traumas and afterlives of extinction. Weaving threads between Indigenous rituals of the Kuikuro in Brazil, steelpan and carnival in Trinidad, and a Gamelan orchestra in Bali, we consider how animist pedagogies can generate immanent modes of attunement in the thresholds between worlds. How might we learn to care for worlds that are not our own, including past and future worlds that may be extinguished due to climate change?
Details
- Title
- Animist Pedagogies and the Endings of Worlds
- Creators
- David RousellEleanor RyanBirgitte Bauer-NilsenRachel Lai
- Contributors
- Pamela Burnard (Editor) - University of CambridgeLiz Mackinlay (Editor) - Southern Cross UniversityDavid Rousell (Editor) - RMIT UniversityTatjana Dragovic (Editor) - University of Cambridge
- Publication Details
- Doing Rebellious Research, pp.263-281
- Series
- Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, Volume: 23
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Identifiers
- 991013154269502368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter