Curriculum Against Empire: Feminist Posthumanist Peace Education in the Anthropocene

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Temporalities in Curriculum: A Contemporary Examination of Lessons From the Past and Implications for the Future (Table 19)

Abstract

This conceptual/theoretical study examines the unique role peace educators can play in curricularizing anti-imperialist, feminist posthumanist education and action at the dawn of the Anthropocene. Considering a new rendering of the human as a geological force (Chakrabarty, 2009), American students must also examine their role as constituents of an imperial military power whose security infrastructure is a significant driver of climate change and violently targets and surveils a racially codified “enemy other” in Muslims and Arabs. This article applies the philosophical perspective of posthumanism to the modern U.S. military-industrial complex. The horizon of feminist posthumanist theorizing can offer students possible ways of knowing, being, and doing that interrupt systems of violence, promote peace, and build sustainable communities.

Author

• Jerica Arents, DePaul University