73.057 - Writing the Posthuman "I": The Problem of the Human Subject in the More-Than-Human World

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

New educational research and practice is emerging within the post-human paradigm in response to escalating planetary crises framed by the concept of the Anthropocene. A fundamental assumption is that human and ecological justice are co-constitutive, in recognition of human entanglement in the fate of the planet. This symposium addresses the onto-epistemological question of the human subject in the more-than-human world in considering the problem of writing the post-human ‘I’ in educational research. Through empirical and theoretical research presenters address the question of how to decenter the human subject in order to focus on the interdependence of all life forms. We ask: What does the post-human mean for educational research? How is it possible to write/speak the post-human subject into being?

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, Arizona State University

Papers

• Children's Posthuman "I" in Love Your Lagoons - Margaret Jean Somerville, University of Western Sydney

• Writing the Body Without Organs in Educational Research - Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon

• Prodigious Performances, Posthuman Subjectivities: Young Children Performing on YouTube - Maggie Maclure, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Philosophy as a Method: De-Writing "I" in the More-Than-Human World - Marek Tesar, The University of Auckland