Full Description
Posthumanism has seen a surge across the humanities and offers a unique perspective, seeking to illuminate the role that more-than-human actors (e.g., affect, artifacts, objects, flora, fauna, other materials) play in the human experience . This book challenges the field of social studies education to think differently about the precarious status of the world (i.e., climate crisis, ongoing fights for racial equity, and Indigenous sovereignty). By cultivating a greater sense of attunement to the more-than-human, educators and scholars can foster more ethical ways of teaching, learning, researching, being, and becoming. In an effort to push the boundaries of what constitutes social studies, chapter authors engage with a wide range of disciplines and offer unique perspectives from various locations across the globe. This volume asks: How can thinking with posthumanism disrupt normative approaches to social studies education and research in ways that promote imaginativeness, speculation, and nonconformity? How can a posthumanist lens be used to interrogate neoliberal, systemic, and oppressive conditions that reproduce and perpetuate in-humanness?
Book Features:
● A collection of essays that explore the phenomenon of posthuman approaches to social studies scholarship.
● Contributions by many prominent social studies education scholars representing seven countries—Canada, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
● A foreword by Boni Wozolek and an afterword by Nathan Snaza, both of who have made significant contributions to critical posthumanism in education.
● Provocation chapters that push readers' thinking about the various ways that posthumanism connects to teaching and learning social studies.
● Images of more-than-human entanglements (i.e., artwork, photography, poetry).
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword. Becoming Posthuman Social Studies
Introduction. Be(com)ing Strange(r): Toward a Posthuman Social Studies
Bretton A. Varga, Timothy Monreal, and Rebecca C. Christ
1. Life Lessons: Posthuman Ideas About Life for an Enlivened Social Studies Education
Mark E. Helmsing
2. A Thousand Deaths: Current Events and Racial Reproductions of the Dead and Dying
Asilia Franklin-Phipps
3. Unsettling the "Social" in Social Studies
Cathryn van Kessel
4. Toppling the (Hu)Man: Posthumanism and the Mattering of Historical Spaces
Francisco A. Medina, Karen Zaino, and Debbie Sonu
5. Lives in/of Things
Sandra J. Schmidt
6. Cities as Pedagogues: Materiality in Paris' Public Sphere as a Teacher of Consciousness
Avner Segall
7. Mattering the Research
8. Set in Stone?: Social Studies Teacher Candidates' Conceptions of Matter
Morgan P. Tate and Amelia H. Wheeler
9. Following for the Community
Polina Golovátina-Mora
10. "I'm a Monster Now": The Construction of Spacetimemattering Through Intra-Action in Childhood
Fernando Guzmán-Simón and Alejandra Pacheco-Costa
11. Arboreal Methodologies: The Promise of Getting Lost (With Feminist New Materialism and Indigenous Ontologies) for Social Studies
Jayne Osgood and Suzanne Axelsson
12. Into the Sea: A Fictive Speculation on How to Cope at the End of the World
Peter M. Nelson
13. Not as Strange as Dying: Reimagining U.S. Social Studies as Place-Based and Decolonialized
Janice Kroeger and Christine Widrig
14. Possibilities for Knowing Differently With a More-Than-Human Ladybird-Pedagogue
Karen E. Barr and Hannah Seat
15. (In)Separatable: Social Studies With/out the Human
Sarah B. Shear
16. The (Self/Re)generating Sacred Energy Called Teotl: Using Nahua Philosophy to Introduce Posthumanist Thinking
Timothy Monreal and Jesús Tirado
17. Beading Shkodé
18. Re/Membering Ethical Relationality: Re/Telling Stories of Dis/citizenship as Lived
Muna Saleh
19. Non-Human Alliances
Polina Golovátina-Mora
20. Youth Are Already Queer: Agentive Possibilities Amongst Queer TikTok Creators
Sandra J. Schmidt, Eric Estes, and Isabel Gomez
21. Any/bodies: Posthumanism and Economics Education
Erin C. Adams
22. Indeterminacy and Strangeness in the Posthuman Classroom: Thinking Toward Possibility
Alexandra L. Page
23. Embracing Strangeness, but Not Becoming Strangers
Alexander Butler
Afterword: Afterward
Nathan Snaza
Appendix A. Guiding Concepts
Endnotes
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
