Eco-Poetry as Performance, Practice, Pedagogy, and Praxis: New Metho-Theoretical-Propositions and the Super-Surging Hedonisticon Xn

• In Event: 34.079 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 34.079-17 - Eco-Critical Engagement With College Students and Adult Learners

Abstract

This poem-paper-performance-presentation advances two new broad creations: 1. Eco-poetry as post-auto-ethno-new materialist methodological praxis, and 2. An Introduction to the Metho-Theoretical-Proposition and Analysis of: The Super-Surging Hedonisticon Xn. We blend and blur art, poetry, performance, environmental education, pedagogy, autoethnography, new materialism, and the post structures, functions, and modernists to create a radical new way of thinking, seeing, being, and presenting. In addition to this metho-theoritical evolution, we also explore the new interpretation of an old idea: that our ecological woes stem from a culture of hedonism that prompts us to indulge to the point where the commodity and the feelings are the things and acts defiling the biosphere.

Authors

• Alan Wight, The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences

• Peggy Shannon-Baker, Georgia Southern University

• Allison JoAnn Lester, University of Cincinnati