Book chapter
General Ecology and Speculative Pedagogies: Youth Digital Media Practices for Climate Justice
Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voices, pp.60-80
Routledge, 1
2023
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Abstract
This chapter presents an exploration of young people's digital media practices for climate justice applying the conceptual figuration of a general ecology. The figuration of "general ecology" positions digital media technologies as elements of young people's natural environments intricately interwoven with atmospheric and climatological processes. To illustrate a "general ecology" theoretical framing to youth digital media studies, we draw on two significant speculative digital research projects, namely the co-development of Climate Action Adventure! with Australian children and young people, and the co-production of speculative online drama performances with young people in Australia and Sri Lanka. We conclude that these speculative digital projects act as sites of generating knowledge differently, affirming that education requires an urgent change in becoming worthy of the general ecological conditions of the Anthropocene or ecocide.
Details
- Title
- General Ecology and Speculative Pedagogies
- Creators
- David Rousell - Southern Cross UniversityThilinika Wijesinghe - Southern Cross UniversityAmy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Richard Beach (Editor of compilation)Blaine Smith (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voices, pp.60-80
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Identifiers
- 991013124202002368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter