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Moving beyond (id)entities, toward emergent becomings of the world and its mattering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2021

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Bronwyn Davies*
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Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Abstract

In the last 30 years we have increasingly, as humans, been individualised and set in competition with each other in the quest for ever increasing productivity. Neoliberalism has exacerbated those very liberal humanist features that feminist poststructuralist theory set out to dismantle with its critique of binary thought and the ascendance of white, male, elite, western consciousness. While transferring the responsibility for individual survival to the individual, away from the social, it weakened our responsibility, our response-ability, to each other and to the earth and our earth others. In this paper I tease my way, through stories, and through new materialist concepts, to a sense of self as emergent, as process rather than (id)entity, as response-able and responsible in the mattering of the world.

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(id)entityneoliberalismresponsibilitynew materialism
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 38 , Special Issue 3-4: Post-qualitative inquiry: Theory and practice in environmental education , September 2022 , pp. 311 - 327
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