This contributed volume explores issues surrounding planetary awareness and its role in the Anthropocene, tackling interdisciplinary themes. The volume proposes a reflection on the way in which the natural, cultural and societal dimensions are intertwined. Through an approach that blends the human, social and natural sciences, it responds to the urgent need to rethink our relationship with the world at a time marked by global ecological and social crises. The book connects scientific knowledge with concrete cultural and social practices. The innovative nature of the book is reflected in its adoption of new methodological perspectives, such as the use of postcolonial and critical concepts to rethink the relationship between the human and the non-human. The authors also incorporate transformative approaches, such as critical imagination, to explore solutions to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene. From a scientific point of view, the book is based on solid, interdisciplinary research. The book emphasizes how global awareness is a central issue in education, in order to reinvent frameworks for collective and individual action. By linking these reflections to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, it offers an operational framework for transforming planetary ideals into concrete policies.
Chapter 1.Becoming Planetary (Juliane Engel & Christoph Wulf).- Part 1:
Planetary Studies in the Field of the Anthropocene.
Chapter 2.Culture and
Politics on a Planetary Scale(Roland Bernecker).
Chapter
3. Our Planet in
the Anthropocene. A plea for Geo-anthropology (Christoph Antweiler).
Chapter
4. Becoming Planetary Theory in an Age where Technology is becoming larger
than Life (Shoko Suzuki).
Chapter
5. Pluriversal Planetary Education.
Challenges in the Anthropocene (Christoph Wulf).
Chapter
6. Biogeophysical
Disruptions. The Challenges for Education in Conceptualizing the Anthropocene
(Nathanael Wallenhorst).
Chapter
7. Complexity of the Anthropocene. A
Systemic and Transdisciplinary Approach (Francois Prouteau).- Part 2: Our
shared Planet. Nature, Energy, and Societal Change.
Chapter
8. Respect for
Nature in Africa and the Response to Changes brought about by Digital
Transformation and Globalization. Implications for Adult Education (Michael
Omolewa, Ruphina Nwachukwu).
Chapter
9. Repairing the World. The Task and
Place of Technology in the Anthropocene (Sebastian Agudelo).
Chapter
10.
Oikos or Echoes? The hurricanes of the media. (Norval Baitello Junior).-
Chapter
11. Planetary Futures. The Transformation Crisis in the Anthropocene
(Juliane Engel).
Chapter
12. Micro-Organization and Societal Change in the
Anthropocene (David R. Cole).
Chapter
13. Melt into Air: Planetary Becoming
amidst Earth`s Energy Imbalance (Joshua Wodak).- Part 3: Transformation:
Colonialism, Sovereignty and Universalism.
Chapter
14. Planetary Thinking
and the Global South. The Anthropocene, Postcolonialism and
Decolonialism(Viviana Polo-Flórez).
Chapter
15. Educational Anthropology and
Developing a Planetary Outlook. Interfaces, Challenges and Pathways to the
Future.- (Karina Limonta Vieira).
Chapter
16. How to not become a Vampire.
Reflections on the Desire of Europeans to learn from Indigenous Knowledge
(Bettina Fritzsche).
Chapter
17. Losing Sovereignty. An Educational
Reflection on Concepts of Sovereignty inspired by de- and postcolonial
Critiques (Nadine Rose).
Chapter
18. Critique of Universalism in Critical
Theory and Postcolonial Theory. The Epistemological Potential (Merle
Hummrich).
Chapter
19. Comparative Analysis. A Universal Method to inquire
into Particularities (Arnd-Michael Nohl).
Chapter
20. Visualizing Climate
Change and Education. Planetary Research in the Mirror of Power.- Part 4:
Vulnerability and Flourishing. Urbanism, Literacy, and Resilience.- Chapter
21. Urban Dynamics and Global Citizenship Education. Nurturing
Interconnectedness and Resilience in the Hyper-Mobile Era (Hongyan Chen).-
Chapter
22. Literacy and Social Justice. An Educational Approach that
transcends Boundaries (Andrea Bramberger & Sabine Seichter).
Chapter
23."Cultural Resilience" and the Cultivation of a Postdigital Planetary
Dissensus.-(Benjamin Jörissen & Leopold Klepacki).
Chapter
24. Cultivating
Flourishing Life. Eudaimogenesis as a Paradigm for the Anthropocene (Juliane
Noak).
Chapter
25. Becoming Planetary in the Deep South. James Agees
Memorial to Meek Men (Joan Ramon Resina).
Juliane Engel is the Founding Director for Transfer of the Center for Critical Computational Studies | C3S at Goethe University Frankfurt. The newly founded center's mission is to establish and activate Critical Computational Literacy (CCL) as a transformative framework. C3S empowers students, citizens, and communities to thoughtfully relate and engage with the algorithmic and data-driven technologies in post digital times. As a Professor of Education at Goethe University, Juliane Engel is focusing on schools and cultural transformation. In systematic and empirical studies, her work examines educational processes and learning considered in the context of dynamics of social transformation, such as processes of cultural pluralization and (post-)digitality, highlighting asymmetries of power. This analysis focuses on the materiality and mediality of processes of subjectification as well as on new forms of agency in post digital realities. She is chair of the Commission for Qualitative Educational and Biographical Research of the German Society for Educational Science (QBBF), where she works on advancing the methodological development of digitized research. She is (co-)founder of an international research group on becoming planetary and co-editor of the journal Education in the Anthropocene: Sustainability, Transformation, Cultures. Since 2023, she is member of the Scientific Committee of the book series "Anthropocene Humanities and Social Sciences".
Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Education and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB, 19992012) Cultures of Performance, the Cluster of Excellence (20072012), Languages of Emotion and the Graduate School InterArts (20062015) at the Freie Universität Berlin. His books have been translated into 20 languages. For his research in anthropology and anthropology of education, he received the title professor honoris causafrom the University of Bucharest. He is Vice-President of the German Commission for UNESCO. Major research areas:historical and cultural anthropology, educational anthropology, imagination, inter-cultural communication, mimesis, aesthetics, epistemology and Anthropocene. Research stays and invited professorships have included the following locations, among others: Stanford, Tokyo, Kyoto, Beijing, Shanghai, Mysore, Delhi, Paris, Lille, Modena, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, London, Vienna, Rome, Lisbon, Basel, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and Sao Paulo.
