Abstract

This paper takes its cue from Koro and Wolgemuth's conceptual writing on Apocalyptic Methodologies as an extended prompt to enact the utopian performative as a form of generative Queer Ecopedagogy. A utopian performative is the performance of future potential that critiques our present political moment, highlighting that the present is not enough. The paper offers a troubling of "nature"and place, in its suggestion that digital space can be a refuge for EE practice. It looks to virtual reality as a realm used to create space free from the constraints of colonial history or normative prescriptions of the non/human binary. The VR artwork Thalu: Dreamtime is Now, by Indigenous Ngarluma creator Tyson Mowarin is analysed to make a case that the digital realm can act as a reclamation and resistance to present colonialist realities, thereby enacting the utopian performative. By queering apocalyptic methodologies, the aim is to transcend traditional boundaries and reimagine the role of researchers, educators and custodians of the environment through apocalyptic imaginaries. In this endeavour, the utopian performative is only permissible through the digital space and therefore the political present, is not enough.

RAS ID

76502

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2024

Funding Information

Forrest Research Foundation

School

Centre for People, Place and Planet

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Identifier

Cassandra Tytler: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0357-7123

Comments

Tytler, C. (2024). Queering apocalyptic methodologies: Enacting the utopian performative through extended reality artwork. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40(3), 515-524. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.52

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10.1017/aee.2024.52