Unit Objectives
​​In cultivating Empathetic and Global Thinkers sensitive to Literature’s ethical dimension, this package aims to foster a more nuanced understanding of climate change that considers how individuals may enact violence upon others in the world alongside environmental destruction. We aim to reorientate our students’ conception of the climate change discourse towards rethinking the material and cultural bases of society and recognising human existence as one part of the greater planetary tapestry of life.
We hope that students conclude the package with an understanding of the connections between environmental and social stewardship and a renewed sense of responsibility as local and global citizens.
Slow Violence
Highlight the concept of climate change as slow violence: a set of unfolding crises that is difficult to grasp because it transpires over a timescale beyond the individual human lifespan. It problematises the misconception that climate change has easy and ready solutions
Interconnectedness
Sensitise students to the interconnectedness of climate change and how it breaks down boundaries between the natural / physical, animal and human worlds. Students need to unpack the multiple perspectives of climate change discourse
Systemic Issues
Underscore the global nature of climate change by considering the systemic issues of climate change, global equity and social justice. We place the uneven effects of climate change on the globally dispossessed at the heart of our exploration
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