Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene

This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that science education—the way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratories—is ill-equipped and ill-conceived to deal with the expansive and urgent contexts of the Anthropocene. Paying homage to myopic knowledge systems, rigid state education directives, and academic-professional communities intent on reproducing the same practices, knowledges, and relationships that have endangered our shared world and shared presents/presence is misdirected. This volume brings together diverse scholars to reimagine the field in times of precarity

Mobile Lives: ‘The Expatriates: Short stories’ and ‘The Possibilities of Expatriate Fiction: Exegesis’

Vol. 1 ‘The Expatriates: Short stories’ -- Vol 2 ‘The Possibilities of Expatriate Fiction: Exegesis’This is a creative writing PhD thesis comprised of two related parts: the short story cycle ‘The Expatriates’ and its accompanying exegesis ‘The Possibilities of Expatriate Fiction’. Both the short story cycle and the exegesis explore the possibilities of expatriate fiction – here meaning fictional works that are either about expatriates or written by writers living abroad. ‘The Expatriates’ is a cycle of eight short stories. Animated by Walter Benjamin’s notion of the seafaring merchant as a teller of stories from afar, and aspiring to fictional virtues of movement and lightness, these stories seek to render contemporary experiences of living ‘abroad’ – in the original sense of being at large, or the contemporary sense of being in another country. Trading in themes of escape and reinvention, the collection features varied settings: a mill town in southeastern New South Wales; two cities in Japan; the back rooms of Heathrow Airport; an artists’ colony in Spain; an apartment in Moscow; a Sydney café; and an unnamed, Mars-like planet. Rather than treating these settings as exceptionally exotic, however, the stories reveal specific instantiations of modernity, or what Drusilla Modjeska calls ‘the stuff of (modern) lives’ (Timepieces 209). The exegesis, ‘The possibilities of expatriate fiction’, turns first to twentieth-century depictions of modern, mobile lives. Whereas longstanding critical traditions describe Christina Stead and Mavis Gallant as ‘expatriate’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ writers without examining how these commitments manifested in their works, this study reveals the authors’ distinctive cosmopolitanisms. One chapter examines the cosmopolitan character of Stead’s Letty Fox: Her Luck (1946), an interloper’s novel of New York that was written in the tradition of European picaresque narratives. Another reads two of Gallant’s early stories, ‘Travellers Must Be Content’ (1959) and ‘The Cost of Living’ (1962), as depicting not only the opportunities but also the costs of an expatriate existence, foregrounding notions of costliness and economy. The comparative discussion of these texts reveals a range of ambivalent states and negotiations with ideas of the nation and belonging. A concluding chapter turns to the implications of expatriatism and cosmopolitanism for a contemporary writer. Surveying recent re-readings of these concepts in critical and literary theory, it builds on Shameem Black’s defence of the possibility of ‘noninvasive imaginative acts’ that ‘question, rather than inevitably reinscribe, the inequalities and injustices of a globalizing world’ (65). Offering an account of the overlapping concerns and tactics in ‘The Expatriates’, it maps a provisional ethos and terrain for a fiction that evokes new expatriate states.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 201

Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene

This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that science education—the way it is currently institutionalized in various forms of school science, government policy, classroom practice, educational research, and public/private research laboratories—is ill-equipped and ill-conceived to deal with the expansive and urgent contexts of the Anthropocene. Paying homage to myopic knowledge systems, rigid state education directives, and academic-professional communities intent on reproducing the same practices, knowledges, and relationships that have endangered our shared world and shared presents/presence is misdirected. This volume brings together diverse scholars to reimagine the field in times of precarity

Love notes from a heretic: towards an anthropology of strategic supply

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The Shadow Space of Allegorical Machines: Situating Locative Media

This dissertation utilizes a media archaeological approach to the analysis of locative media, which are technologies that organize an experience of spatial orientation. For instance, a user can use a mobile phone to connect to a cellular network and generate a visualization of the material space in which he or she is positioned with annotated or interactive information on the screen. My critical approach to locative media is influenced by a historical constellation of orientation technologies, their contributions to the social imaginations of space, and the resulting experiences and expectations that are negotiated by the material, symbolic, and ideal. Four case studies on the astrolabe, magnetic compass, divining rod, and digital locative media make up a broader historical arrangement of which, I argue, digital locative media are the latest manifestation. Like other media technologies such as radio or television, these spatial technologies offer a window onto another world while also offering (other)spaces of symbolic and cultural codes that are layered over material space. The ability to reveal these otherspaces is associated with the recurring transcendent logic of locative media as individuals are encouraged to unveil the real behind the apparent in order to become united with a hybrid (and enchanted) ecology of the virtual and real. My locative media archaeology involves a theorization of allegorical machines, which is a term I use to analyze the interfaced interpretation of a shadow (imagined or informational) otherspace in relation to a porous correspondence between subject and space. This theorization is an interrogation of how engineers, technological promoters, and users position allegorical machines as making the supersensible sensible through an interface with the sublime. In other words, locative media are technological attempts to make the vague intelligible by bringing what lies outside the realm of physical experience into contact with the senses. Transcending to otherspaces such as the electromagnetic spectrum or the digital network involves an inherent metaphysics of the interface, which as liaisons between bodies and spaces generate animations such as the one that is the focus of this dissertation: the sublime desire or fear of unveiling the unknown space beyond space.Doctor of Philosoph