CPI Special Issue: "Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity" (Introduction)

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https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29643

Abstract

Introduction to the Summer 2022 (Volume 14, No. 1) Special Isssue of Cultural and Pedigogical Inquiry with the guest editors Nikki Fairchild, Carol Lee and Kay Sidebottom. This is Part I of a double special issue that is grounded in the tenets, perspectives and  the assumptions of posthumanism.

Author Biographies

Nikki Fairchild, University of Portsmouth

Nikki Fairchild is Associate Head (Research and Innovation) in the School of Education and Sociology, University of Portsmouth. Her research focuses on feminist materialist ways to extend conceptualisations of practice, place-space and subjectivities in Early Childhood. She is a founder member of the CG Collective who disrupt knowledge production in conference spaces by enacting research-creation workshops exploring relationality between human, non-human and other-than-human bodies.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8640-2710

Carol Lee, University of Ottawa

Carol Lee is a recent PhD graduate of the Faculty of Education, at the University of Ottawa. Her SSHRC- and OGS-funded doctoral research looked at collaborative child story-making as an instrument of reconciliation. She is currently an Assistant Editor with the Journal for the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS).  She publishes regularly in Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry and continues to be a practicing poet.

Kay Sidebottom, University of Stirling

Kay Sidebottom is a Lecturer in Education and Director for the MSc Education at the University of Stirling. Her current research explores how teachers can work with posthuman ideas to facilitate meaningful and disruptive education spaces for our complex times. With a background in community and adult education, her pedagogical specialisms include critical, radical and anarchist education, arts-based practice and community philosophy.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3385-6035

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Published

2022-12-17