Apocalyptic Pedagogies: Rethinking Publics and Publicness in the Time of Apocalypse

  • Bindi MacGill University of South Australia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15209/jpp.1252

Abstract

In this photo essay I draw on Haraway’s (2016) call to stay “with the trouble” and make “kin in the Chthulucene” to reflect on emergent community understandings as a result of catastrophic fires on Kangaroo Island (KI) in 2019. The title Immolation with Ashes is a signifier for staying with the trouble and draws on Indigenous ethics of care and understandings of connection to place. I draw on documentary photography that I conducted over several years on KI to unveil the impact of the ecological disaster and use the images as a site for reflection. Through the framing of apocalyptic pedagogies I offer a family vignette to provide insight into the event of the fires and the emergence of community knowledges and networks that arose as a result of the fires. The photos throughout the paper also reveal sites of healing landscapes in the same way in which traumatised communities form solidarity and knowledge in recovery.

Cover Image of Street Art with text Truth is, there is no wonderland and birds are dying.
Published
2022-02-08
How to Cite
MacGill B. (2022). Apocalyptic Pedagogies: Rethinking Publics and Publicness in the Time of Apocalypse. Journal of Public Pedagogies, (6), 154-162. https://doi.org/10.15209/jpp.1252
Issue
No 6 (2021)
Section
Articles
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