Author: Professor Karen Malone, Snapshot of Presentations given at the University of OsloMET and University of Gothenberg (May 2023), University of Oulu and University of Helsinki (October 2023). We need to look after our planet or otherwise, otherwise it will die. Like koalas, animals, us. Us we will die. Animals will die. Everyone will die. …
Companion Grief: Encountering, Sensing and Educating on Death and Loss in The Anthropocene
Author: Professor Karen Malone, School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Centre fro Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology. In this time of extinctions we are going to be asked again and again to make a stand for life, and this means taking a stand for faith in life’s meaningfulness. We are called to live …
Uneasy assemblages of childearthbodies
Dr Karen Malone, Professor Environmental Sustainability and Childhood Studies, Swinburne University of Technology Photo on Pexels.com introduction Children take me walking in their neighbourhood in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. In my diary after the walk I write: The children recognize the fragility and porosity of human and non-human life and its link to the contaminated earth. Children speak often …
New Publication: Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies
Authors Karen Malone, Marek Tesar and Sonja Arndt Presents posthuman and new materialist theorising of children and their childhoods Combines theory and practice in complex and everyday ways using postanthropocentric approaches Draws on a vast set of contemporary research and deep rich stories that express childhoods differently Explores children and childhoods outside of Euro and …
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New Publication: Shimmering with Deborah Rose: Posthuman theory-making with feminist ecophilosophers and social ecologists.
Authors: Karen Malone, Marianne Logan, Lisa Siegel, Julie Regalado and Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen Abstract Drawing on a posthuman lens we walk-with Deborah Bird Rose and her conceptual framing of shimmer. We explore shimmering as incorporating a sensorial richness, as beauty and grandeur, as constantly in flux, moving between past, future and back again. Shimmering has potentiality …
Environmental Sustainability in the Anthropocene 