Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the pedagogical contours of death education through a critical posthuman lens and Queer Death Studies. It questions the potential of death education as a key resource for addressing current and announced ecological crises, part of current efforts to engage creatively and critically with educational alternatives that address the urgent needs of a warming planet in an era of rapid, uneven transformation. Through its theoretical orientation, emphasizing interconnectedness and the refusal of western dualisms, this article examines three features of a posthuman death education: transdisciplinarity, ethico-political dimensions and material relationalities. In offering some pedagogical avenues, its underlying aim is to fill a gap in the literature, namely a rapprochement between death education and the socioecological issues arising from the Anthropocene/Necrocene nexus. As a first step in this direction, it attempts to open the way for reflection on broader understandings of death for an education oriented toward multispecies justice.
Source: Death Studies
Author: Juliette Clara Bertoldo
Institution: National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410888558