Reconsidering death education in/for the anthropocene from a posthumanist approach.
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| Title: | Reconsidering death education in/for the anthropocene from a posthumanist approach. |
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| Authors: | Bertoldo, Juliette Clara (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Death Studies. 2026, Vol. 50 Issue 6, p859-873. 15p. |
| Subjects: | Thanatology, Humanism, Anthropology, Biological evolution, Life, Ecology, Social justice, Teaching methods, Ethics, Attitude (Psychology), Paradigms (Social sciences), Quality of life, Practical politics |
| Abstract: | This article explores the pedagogical contours of death education through a critical posthuman lens and Queer Death Studies. It questions the potential of death education as a key resource for addressing current and announced ecological crises, part of current efforts to engage creatively and critically with educational alternatives that address the urgent needs of a warming planet in an era of rapid, uneven transformation. Through its theoretical orientation, emphasizing interconnectedness and the refusal of western dualisms, this article examines three features of a posthuman death education: transdisciplinarity, ethico-political dimensions and material relationalities. In offering some pedagogical avenues, its underlying aim is to fill a gap in the literature, namely a rapprochement between death education and the socioecological issues arising from the Anthropocene/Necrocene nexus. As a first step in this direction, it attempts to open the way for reflection on broader understandings of death for an education oriented toward multispecies justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | This article explores the pedagogical contours of death education through a critical posthuman lens and Queer Death Studies. It questions the potential of death education as a key resource for addressing current and announced ecological crises, part of current efforts to engage creatively and critically with educational alternatives that address the urgent needs of a warming planet in an era of rapid, uneven transformation. Through its theoretical orientation, emphasizing interconnectedness and the refusal of western dualisms, this article examines three features of a posthuman death education: transdisciplinarity, ethico-political dimensions and material relationalities. In offering some pedagogical avenues, its underlying aim is to fill a gap in the literature, namely a rapprochement between death education and the socioecological issues arising from the Anthropocene/Necrocene nexus. As a first step in this direction, it attempts to open the way for reflection on broader understandings of death for an education oriented toward multispecies justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 07481187 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07481187.2025.2510476 |
