Climate anxiety, profane knowledge and the politics of education

Description

In this invited lecture, Dr Callum McGregor mobilised psychoanalytic political theory to develop an analysis of the circumstances under which climate anxiety might
foreclose or facilitate critical educational processes addressing the politics of climate crisis. He addressed how climate anxiety can be symptomatic of the tacit
desire to protect the status quo, as well as an institutionalised disavowal of the very knowledges needed to critically address this desire. The talk also examined how psychoanalysis, by providing a theoretical basis for examining the relationship
between anxiety and knowledge disavowal, can help to illuminate social processes of organised ignorance that actively (re)produce the epistemological face of
climate injustice in education. Elaborating on these themes, Callum considered their concrete implications for educational research.

Period	12 Nov 2024
Event title	Invited lecture at Cambridge University's 'Climate and Sustainability Education Series (CASES)'
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International