Journal article
Activist ecologies of study in the learning city: deformalisations of educational life
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.43(5), pp.702-722
03/09/2022
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Abstract
The combined impacts of COVID-19 and global climate change are destabilising the infrastructures and future prospects of formal educational systems, with schools and universities struggling to adapt to conditions of radical precarity. At the same time, activist movements are generating alter-educational platforms that reappropriate the learning infrastructures of cities as mobile architectures of pedagogical resistance. Building on Harney and Moten's The Undercommons, this paper discusses transnational examples of radical pedagogies that engage the city as an ecology of deformalised study. We highlight examples from Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdown regime, emphasising how informal study enabled community-led responses to crisis at city-scale. We then turn to urban ecologies of study arising from contemporary activist movements, drawing connections between protest movements in Hong Kong and Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the 'war machine'. This leads to a speculative re-imagining of alternative educational values and futures within a milieu of activist study, care, and resistance.
Details
- Title
- Activist ecologies of study in the learning city: deformalisations of educational life
- Creators
- David Rousell - Both of Creative Agency Lab, School of Education, RMIT University, AustraliaKelly Ka-lai Chan - Both of Creative Agency Lab, School of Education, RMIT University, Australia
- Publication Details
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.43(5), pp.702-722
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991013054665102368
- Copyright
- © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article