Open AccessLiving in lost futures
Author(s) -
Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of environmental media
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2632-2471
pISSN - 2632-2463
DOI - 10.1386/jem_00058_1
Subject(s) - futures contract , anthropocene , covid-19 , politics , pandemic , environmental crisis , history , sociology , media studies , political science , environmental ethics , business , law , medicine , philosophy , disease , finance , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
How do you teach about crises amid crisis? This article and accompanying zine reflect on my preparation for and delivery of an undergraduate seminar about the intersecting environmental, social and political crises that are frequently bundled together under the term ‘the Anthropocene’. Our course was designed and taught amid the COVID-19 global pandemic. Through readings, guest lectures and a digital humanities writing project, my students and I worked to take a desire-based rather than damage-centred approach to receiving and telling stories about the lost futures we are living through and the lost futures to come.