Facing the Anthropocene: Comparative Education as Sympoiesis ...
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The climate crisis and the Anthropocene have made it clear that our old stories – often fixated on human heroes conquering nature or extracting resources – are inadequate. We need narratives that foreground entanglement: the interdependence of humans, non-human creatures, and the Earth itself.
The goal of this work is to identify traditions in Asia that have been consonant with global imperatives in the Anthropocene – when humans have begun to significantly affect nature and the environment – not only by revealing different attitudes and ideals regarding nature (and other subjugated entities) but also by showing us different methods and
... See moreEcological values may be contextualized within broader cosmo-ontological perspectives. Relationships between humans and nonhumans have been described within a “household” model of the cosmos, one which requires a sympoietic (making with) orientation (Haraway, 2016) to a profound entanglement in the web of life. This is no small task amid a sixth gr
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