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Akokisa River Pedagogies

Authors :
Nadine M. Kalin
Source :
International Journal of Art & Design Education. 2024 43(3):493-510.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

The loss of relational networks and life-sustaining capacities of the Earth resulting from the Anthropocene/Capitalocene provoke ambiguous pedagogical experimenting with the limits of the known. The Akokisa River of Texas is more than its extractive use-value based on humanist rationality. Water connector Ángel Faz approaches the River as more than a passive and endless resource to be extracted and manoeuvred for profit, but as an ecology of relations entangled with humans -- the River is us; we are the River. As a boundary agitator, Faz speculates into unresolvable and reciprocal voids located in the excluded middles between humans and more-than-humans ripe with potential percepts and affects across River multiplicities. Such gesturing generates transcorporeal, multi-linguistic, uncanny, trickster, and shimmering pedagogies bewildering the capacity to participate in the dynamic indeterminacy and interconnectedness of the River's ongoing becoming.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1476-8062
Volume :
43
Issue :
3
Database :
ERIC
Journal :
International Journal of Art & Design Education
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
EJ1432885
Document Type :
Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12519