Digital media, political affect, and a youth to come: rethinking climate change education through Deleuzian dramatisation

Rousell, David, Wijesinghe, Thilinika, Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Amy, and Osborn, Maia (2023) Digital media, political affect, and a youth to come: rethinking climate change education through Deleuzian dramatisation. Educational Review, 75 (1). pp. 33-53.

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Abstract

Set within a theatrical unfolding of global youth climate movements, this paper explores the role of digital media in staging new possibilities for climate change education and activism. We engage Deleuze’s method of dramatisation to theorise how young people are using digital platforms to perform climate activism and construct new political subjectivities through affective investments. We develop these ideas by describing the process of co-developing a climate change education App with young people. This co-design process brought together elements of climate education, environmental science, speculative fiction, gaming, social media, and hacktivism as techniques for dramatising climate change through digital practices of fabulation. We argue that climate change is a complex philosophical problem that needs to be dramatised – and that young people are currently using digital media to elaborate speculative performances of this problem through the cultivation of a minor politics.

Item ID: 81966
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1465-3397
Keywords: affect, Climate change education, Deleuze, digital media, speculative Q4 fiction, young people
Copyright Information: © 2021 Educational Review.
Date Deposited: 19 Feb 2024 05:39
FoR Codes: 39 EDUCATION > 3903 Education systems > 390399 Education systems not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes: 19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1901 Adaptation to climate change > 190103 Social impacts of climate change and variability @ 25%
19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1905 Understanding climate change > 190599 Understanding climate change not elsewhere classified @ 25%
19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1902 Environmental policy, legislation and standards > 190203 Environmental education and awareness @ 50%
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