Author Identifier
Cassandra Tytler: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0357-7123
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Australian Journal of Environmental Education
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
School
Centre for People, Place and Planet
RAS ID
76502
Funders
Forrest Research Foundation
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.
DOI
10.1017/aee.2024.52
Creative Commons License
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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