Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in the Anthropocene
This page reposts material from the 'Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anth
19/08/2024
https://iiraorg.com/2024/08/19/agency-in-the-anthropocene-education-for-planetary-health/
Agency in the Anthropocene: education for planetary health Peta J White PhD a, Nicole M Ardoin PhD b, Chris Eames PhD c, Martha C Monroe PhD d Under a Creative Commons license Summary Collective action is essential to address planetary health as …
18/08/2024
https://iiraorg.com/2024/08/18/dwelling-in-the-climate-emergency/
‘Dwelling in the Climate Emergency’ Michael Degani ‘Ecologies’ In this brief essay, I want to sketch how developments in architecture and design are exploring what it is to dwell in the climate emergency. Dwelling is a term derived f…
10/08/2024
https://iiraorg.com/2024/08/10/our-future-in-the-anthropocene-biosphere-2/
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere Carl Folke, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Victor Galaz, Frances Westley, Michèle Lamont, Marten Scheffer, Henrik Österblom, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin III, Karen C. Seto, Elke U. We…
10/08/2024
Burning worlds of cartography: a critical approach to climate cosmograms of the Anthropocene Birgit Schneider Abstract Climate science today makes use of a variety of red globes to explore and communicate findings. These transform the iconography which informs this image: the idealised, ev…
25/07/2024
This page contains a presentation that I gave at the Victoria and Albert museum (V&A). Scroll down the page to see the video:
Nomadic objects in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) David R. Cole Abstract: There are 2.8 million objects housed by the Victoria and Albert Museum collection. Of these 2.8 million objects, a catalogue search revealed approximately 36 nomadic objects…
23/07/2024
The Anthropocene and the geo-political imagination: Re-writing Earth as political space Eva Lövbrand a, Malin Mobjörk b, Rickard Söder b Abstract The Anthropocene is described as a dangerous and unpredictable era in which fossil-fueled ways of life undermine the planetary systems on w…
21/07/2024
Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time is a groundbreaking collection that delves deep into the often-overlooked dimension of time in education. Edited by David R. Cole, Mehri Mirzaei Rafe, and Gui Ying Annie Yang-Heim, this book brings time out of the shadows and showcases its vital role in understanding education and research. With diverse chapters covering various contexts, this book offers fresh perspectives on time's impact on teaching, learning, and research. A must-read for educators, researchers, and anyone interested in the intricate relationship between time and education.
Michael A. Peters – Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, China.
Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time is a fascinating book on a subject very rarely focused on in education. Time. Early in the book the editors argue it is an analysis of time ‘in itself’ not time as part of, partner or contributor to something else. Research informing the edited book is collectively called the ‘maelstrom of time’, maelstrom being a powerful, swirling, coming together. The diverse chapters capture the many dimensions of time through personal reflections, documenting educational happenings and its cosmological gravity. Timing, slowing down, speeding up, temporality, timescapes, timetables, diffracted, free and the finality of time are themes threaded through this intriguing, edited collection. I would recommend it to anyone who ever considered how as teachers and researchers we find ourselves trapped in narrow definitions and regimes of ‘time’.
Karen Malone - Professor of Environmental and Childhood Studies, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
This edited collection: Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time couldn't be more timely. It offers the reader ample opportunities to dwell upon the possibilities that exist to challenge and resist the weight of progress narratives and neoliberal preoccupations with efficiency. Together the chapters avoid the linear, progressive, Time's-(killing)- arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic story', as Ursula Le Guin (186, p. 153) expresses it. This collection deserves a slow and careful engagement and a willingness to think otherwise about life in the Anthropocene as it plays out within, through and beyond educational contexts.
Jayne Osgood – Professor in Education, Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University, UK.
This outstanding and overdue collection provides astute critiques of the measured, linear description of time that striates our work and lives as educational scholars and researchers. Authors reach across nations and disciplines and time to offer new concepts, ideas, and ontologies from philosophy (Deleuze, Bergson), physics (Barad), and literature (T.S. Eliot) to inspire us to think time differently, perhaps as imaginary and even imperceptible, and to let it loose to re-organize the world.
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre - Professor of Educational Theory & Practice, University of Georgia, USA.
The question of time has been neglected in educational research, yet it is fundamental to our understanding of curriculum, pedagogy and subjectivation. This important collection opens novel pathways towards a new philosophy of time for educational research. The authors draw attention to the temporalities of education across diverse contexts and provide practical insights that respond to the demands of our historical conjuncture.
Sam Sellar – Professor of Education, Dean of Research, University of South Australia, Education Futures, Australia.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-3418-4
20/06/2024
Of sand and stone: Thick time, cyclicality, and Anthropocene poetics in ‘Nomadland’ December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_ by Gert Jan Harkema The tiny moment of the past grows and opens onto a horizon, at once mobile and uniform in tone, of one or several years… She has th…
05/06/2024
Storying against hope in the anthropocene: On the mechanology of hyperstitions Sideeq Mohammed | University of Kent | [email protected] Abstract Nick Land (2012) once described hyperstitions as “semiotic productions that make themselves real” – stories that actualize them…
22/05/2024
https://iiraorg.com/2024/05/22/climate-endgame-exploring-catastrophic-climate-change-scenarios/
Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios Luke Kemp Chi Xu , Joanna Depledge, Goodwin Gibbins, Timothy A. Kohler, Johan Rockström, Marten Scheffer , Hans Joachim Schellnhuber , Will Steffen and Timothy M…
27/04/2024
New post on IIRA that deals with the transition economy:
Comparative capitalisms in the Anthropocene: a research agenda for green transition Jeremy Green Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ABSTRACT Climate change and broader Anthropogenic environmental risks pose existential threats …
30/03/2024
Prospective technology assessment in the Anthropocene: A transition toward a culture of sustainability Martin Möller and Rainer Grießhammer Abstract In the Anthropocene, humankind has become a quasi-geological force. Both the rapid development as well as the depth of intervention…
30/03/2024
Prospective technology assessment in the Anthropocene: A transition toward a culture of sustainability Martin Möller and Rainer Grießhammer Abstract In the Anthropocene, humankind has become a quasi-geological force. Both the rapid development as well as the depth of intervention…
30/03/2024
Prospective technology assessment in the Anthropocene: A transition toward a culture of sustainability Martin Möller and Rainer Grießhammer Abstract In the Anthropocene, humankind has become a quasi-geological force. Both the rapid development as well as the depth of intervention of new technologies…
25/02/2024
In my latest piece of writing I theorise the transition economy for net zero in terms of patchworks. If we accept that the transition will happen at different speeds according to capital, we have to adjust our qualitative methods for investigation - here called creative ecologies. DM me if you do not have access:
Patchwork Vectors for the Anthropocene: The Role of Creative Ecologies - David R. Cole, 2024 Qualitative social inquiry into action on climate change involves understanding the intersections between contemporary social life and the technological develop...
22/02/2024
Spatiotemporality in the Anthropocene: Deleuzoguattarian Philosophy, Quantum Physics, and the German Netflix Series Dark In: KronoScope Hedwig Fraunhofer Abstract Crises alter our perception of time. For medical personnel faced with treating unprecedented numbers of critically ill patients under conditions of pe…
14/01/2024
Please find attached my contribution to a double special edition of the Journal of Environmental Education that I edited. The article deals with housing in the Capitalocene and education for sustainable living. There are 50 free downloads (or DM if they have run out)
Housing in the Capitalocene: Environmental education and sustainable living Capital and property have been combined since Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in 1867. Indeed, capitalism and the housing market are interlinked because property is an asset whose indexed value upholds...
11/01/2024
The first part of a special edition of the Journal of Environmental Educaiton has been published that I edited. This is the introduction to the special edition, it involves dark theory and addresses the unconscious drives of the Anthropocene. Download the paper for free here (50 copies):
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene This introduction to the special edition on the praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in the Capitalocene focuses on developing an argument about the underpinning...
12/12/2023
Conceptual framework for balancing society and nature in net-zero energy transitions Gemma Delafield, Caspar Donnison, Philippa Roddis, Theodoros Arvanitopoulos, Alexandros Sfyridis, Sebastian Dunnett, Thomas Ball, Kathryn G. Logan Abstract Transitioning to a low carbon energy fu…
03/11/2023
The Anthropocene Divide: Obscuring Understanding of Social-Environmental Change Andrew M. Bauer and Erle C. Ellis Andrew M. Bauer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University (450 Serra Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA [ambau…
03/11/2023
Anthropocene anthropology: reconceptualizing contemporary global change Amelia Moore Abstract The Anthropocene is the scientific label given by earth scientists to the current epoch of unprecedented anthropogenic planetary change. The Anthropocene is also a political l…
18/10/2023
https://iiraorg.com/2023/10/18/artificial-stupidity-and-artificial-intelligence-in-the-anthropocene/
Artificial Stupidity and Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene Bernard Stiegler 23 November 2018, Institute of Ereignis, Shanghai For anyone wanting a precise analysis of what we refer to today as artificial intelligence, which seems now to have become the hor…
05/09/2023
https://rdcu.be/dldF0 A chapter download on housing. In the Handbook of the Anthropocene
Housing This handbook entry examines the issue of housing in the Anthropocene. The issue of housing in the Anthropocene involves many factors and aspects with respect to housing given the facts of climate change. To limit these factors and possible through-lines for this...
02/06/2023
https://iiraorg.com/2023/06/02/the-deep-anthropocene/
The deep Anthropocene A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future Lucas Stephens is a senior research analyst at the Environmental Law and Po…
15/05/2023
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism Mads Ejsing [email protected] Volume 71, Issue 1 Abstract Since its origin in the natural sciences in the early 2000s, the concept of the Anthropocene has spread far and wide. Following …