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Community Development Journal, 2021
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Chapter 36This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge Ha... more Chapter 36This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice on 1 November 2018, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Climate-Justice/Jafry/p/book/9781138689350In recent years, the insurgent discourse of climate justice has offered an alternative to the dominant discourse of sustainable development, which has arguably constructed climate change as a global 'post-political' problem, with the effect of erasing its ideological features. However, even climate justice can be considered a contested term, meaning different things to different social actors. Accordingly, this chapter offers a theoretical analysis of the challenges and opportunities for a climate justice education (CJE), which prioritises the distinctive educative and epistemological contributions of social movements, and extends analysis of such movements, by considering how the learning they generate might inform CJE in schoo...
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My desire to read ‘Inventing the future’ emerged after happening upon a short provocation called ... more My desire to read ‘Inventing the future’ emerged after happening upon a short provocation called the ‘Accelerationist Manifesto’, also written by this book’s authors (political theorist Nick Srnicek and sociologist Alex Williams) in 2013. These are both polemical works which, whilst not directly about education, surface a number of debates pertinent to educators working for social justice. Accelerationism—a peculiar mix of sci-fi and political theory—starts from the premise that a moribund left must learn to let go of its anachronistic tendencies (the authors label these tendencies ‘folk politics’), by counter-intuitively embracing the breakneck speed of life and labour under neoliberal techno-capitalism. This, as I understand it, is a speculative response to capitalism’s ‘moving contradiction’ of labour, ‘both source of value, and squeezed out by the machine’ (Noys, 2014, p. 97), which it attempts to burst through by embracing full-automation as one necessary condition of a post-ca...
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This thesis is a study of the cultural politics of environmentalism in an era of climate change a... more This thesis is a study of the cultural politics of environmentalism in an era of climate change and the public curriculum that it generates. Scientists and the policy elite alone are unlikely to solve the ‘wicked problem’ of climate change, even in the unlikely scenario that consensus was reached and concerted international action was forthcoming. Increasingly, it is recognised that institutional learning through technocratic refinements of the status quo are inadequate. Although there is widespread belief that anthropogenic global warming is an urgent problem, political action has not followed scientific knowledge, because we have been slow to recognise the problem’s cultural implications. A range of voices within the environmental movement (broadly conceived) have increasingly challenged technocratic policy framing, with new ways of thinking. By widening the debate these critical voices increase the possibility of learning to react in new ways, which increase the capacity for coll...
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This article is intended as a critical intervention into the happiness and wellbeing agenda in c... more This article is intended as a critical intervention into the happiness and wellbeing agenda in community practice. Although our reflections are influenced by the Scottish context they are not solely informed by it, since the rise of the happiness and wellbeing industry and its relationship to neoliberalism is clearly a phenomenon of wider relevance (e.g. Davies 2014; Ehrenreich 2009). As co-authors, our different starting points led us to a dialogue on the relationship between the rise of happiness and wellbeing discourse and the decline of critique. What emerged from this was the identification of three contradictions shaping the happiness and wellbeing agenda. We outline them here in the hope that it provides a framework to think through what is at stake for community workers with an interest in critical pedagogies.
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for new materialism conference New materialism and social justice: Productive entanglement or pol... more for new materialism conference New materialism and social justice: Productive entanglement or political cul-de-sac? Recent developments in new materialist (NM) politics have surfaced the problem of what social justice might look like in the wake of the post-human. The academic spaces through which NM has produced its own situated knowledges have re-theorised the ‘social’. To an extent, these spaces have developed in isolation from established spaces of social justice scholarship. In NM, the ‘social’ is recuperated in a flat ontology, as a mere synonym for the ‘ecological’ (Bryant 2014, p. 192). In this context, one might be tempted to simply conclude that social justice be jettisoned as a normative concept in NM politics altogether. However, NM’s political roots in feminist praxis suggest otherwise. Therefore, this re-theorisation of the ‘social’ requires a re-theorisation of ‘social justice’ and its various dimensions – distributive, recognitive and participatory (Fraser 2005). NM ...
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