Redefining Time in Post-Truth Times: Posthumanism, Auto-Ethnography, and Parent(ing) Childhoodnature in Environmental Education Research

• In Event: 75.031 - Environmental Education in a Sustainable World

Abstract

“Darkness is not mere absence, but rather an abundance” (Barad, 2014, p. 171)

This proposed paper-presentation explores how a posthuman theoretical framing and autoethnography as method can be employed in environmental educational research to reconceptualise and therefore, redefine time in the context of parent(ing) childhoodnature (see The International Research Handbook of Childhoodnature, Cutter-Mackenzie, Malone, & Barratt Hacking, 2019). In praxis, this paper-presentation seeks to address the perceived notion that more time is needed to get children into nature through posthuman theorising that children are nature. Through reconceptualising, retheorising and reimagining children and nature assemblages, the author invites participants to explore the future possibilities creating a collective network of unique, individual perspectives in post-truth times.

Author

• Simone Miranda Blom, Southern Cross University