Events of Art and Education in Post-climate Times
Carl Anders Säfström editor Glenn Loughran editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:30th Jun '25
£39.99
This title is due to be published on 30th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education. While both fields are often connected through disciplinary dialogues, climate change prompts a greater need to unite artists and educators around common environmental problems and goals.
By staging transcritical engagements, this book draws out common and uncommon disciplinary perspectives that can generate new ways of thinking, living, and doing in the Anthropocene. Ideas around courage, resilience, life and death emerge. An expression of active, non-violent resistance to the ongoing destruction of our planet, this book supports imaginative action, popular sovereignty, and the courage to live well within the challenges of our era. Engaging artists’ and educators’ questions, it maps significant differences and potential intersections for further enquiry.
Events of Art and Education in Post-climate Times will be helpful for students studying art, education, environment and sustainability, and climate change. It will also interest researchers, practicing artists and teachers in these disciplines by being at the forefront of current discussions in both fields.
"This edited volume, drawing on subjects such as philosophy, art history, and pedagogy, makes an extraordinarily original and significant contribution to our understanding of the current post-climate era. By reimagining sustainability and addressing the troubling future of rising global temperatures and social injustice, it explores the intersection of art, education, and philosophy across all chapters. This fusion inspires creativity, not only in the world at large but also in how universities can foster a hopeful and inclusive community, nurturing a future rooted in belonging and shared purpose."
Peter Dobers, Professor, School of Scienecs, University, Sweden
"Säfström and Loughran reveal a world which we are invited to navigate with even more freedom than we can muster. They do so through the diverse spheres of a sophistic(al) heterodoxy—indeed what they call a “patchwork ontology”, which allows us to move beyond the strictures that have become the mainstay of our current polity. Being in the world anew is what, one hopes, would allow us to survive the destructive legalities by which human agency became a reified mirage. This is a fascinating book which does not simply challenge our certainties, but confirms, yet again, that the only way to make sense of and prevail in such a world, is to embrace form’s pedagogical possibilities."
John Baldacchino, Professor of Art and Education, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
"An extraordinarily fine collection of authors carries the world events of pedagogy into the realm of thinking otherwise to invite the risk of beauty in our time of ecological crisis. Each chapter is a gem of engagement and provides a treasure-trove of educational experiments crafted from the ethics of thinking again. On o?er is a new vocabulary as openings to imagination, hospitality, and involvement, with the request to analyze one’s own situation within the learning world of others. With the medium for philosophical thought and pedagogical responsiveness, readers enter movements of wonder with fresh thinking, surprising metaphors, and views of life that welcome the coming education."
Deborah P. Britzman, author of When History Returns: Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning
ISBN: 9781032586830
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
214 pages