Donna J. Haraway’s ecofeminism revisited: critical new materialist pedagogies for Anthropocenic crisis times

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dc.contributor.authorCarstens, Delphien
dc.contributor.authorGeerts, Evelienen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-03T13:38:00Z
dc.date.available2025-01-03T13:38:00Z
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.description.abstractBy bringing feminist science studies scholar Donna J. Haraway’s A manifesto for cyborgs (1985) and Situated knowledges (1988) in line with contemporary critical new materialist thought (see Colman & Van der Tuin, 2024; Dolphijn & Van der Tuin, 2012; Geerts, 2022), this critical pedagogical and philosophical think piece tackles the problematic of Anthropocenic disruptions of the planetary biosphere for critical pedagogies and higher education (also see Carstens, 2016). It additionally encourages its readers to think through their own pedagogical conceptions and praxes by means of irruptive (Geerts & Carstens, 2024; Koro-Ljungberg, 2015) selfreflection- stimulating questions. Our situated – and thus limited and open-ended – response to this all-encompassing Anthropocenic crisis is rooted in a rethinking of Harawayan cyborgian and situated knowledges and the critical pedagogical lessons drawn from the latter. Rereading Haraway’s work through contemporary critical new materialist and related scholarship reveals that it already contained an ecofeminist onto-epistemological shift toward more-than-human agency and relationality. This shift has major consequences for all things critical pedagogical and educational, as our pedagogical thinking-doings are deeply embedded in today’s crisis-ridden lifeworld. This rereading exercise furthermore underlines the necessity of an updated critical new materialist pedagogical praxis for learning and teaching, inspired by Harawayan ecofeminism, that takes the entanglements between human, dehumanised, and more-than-human actors seriously.en
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dc.identifier.citationCarstens, D. and Geerts, E. (2024) 'Donna J. Haraway’s ecofeminism revisited: critical new materialist pedagogies for Anthropocenic crisis times', Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 40(1), (16pp). https://doi.org/10.4314/sajee.v40SI1.02en
dc.identifier.doi10.4314/sajee.v40SI1.02en
dc.identifier.eissn2411-5959en
dc.identifier.endpage16en
dc.identifier.issn0256-7504en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleSouthern African Journal of Environmental Educationen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16774
dc.identifier.volume40en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAfrican Journals Onlineen
dc.rights© 2024, Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen
dc.subjectCritical new materialismsen
dc.subjectCritical pedagogiesen
dc.subjectDonna J. Harawayen
dc.subjectEcofeminismen
dc.subjectEco-environmentalen
dc.subject(Higher) educationen
dc.subjectIrruptive methodologyen
dc.titleDonna J. Haraway’s ecofeminism revisited: critical new materialist pedagogies for Anthropocenic crisis timesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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