Reconceptualising justice-oriented collective advocacy and activism in New Zealand Early Childhood Education and Care

The conference paper problematises the vision of collective advocacy and activism in New Zealand ECE, which relies primarily on strategies for improving human working (economic) conditions. Through a critical posthuman feminist and existential posthumanist lens, it argues that collective responses to ECE crises demand solidarity, justice and fair participation for all be(com)ings-in-the-world. Specifically, it considers: What may justice-oriented collective advocacy and activism look like if ‘we’ embrace the human as a relational inter-being/becoming whose crises are not in isolation but are co-emerging and co-manifesting with others across glocal socio-political, eco-technological, spatio-temporal, bio-eco-cultural realities.