EPS seminar, theme for 2020-2021
The theme of the upcoming "Education-Politics-Societies" seminars is
Crisis situations, or crisis of globalization? What are the implications for educational research?
Below are various references and the scientific project proposed to spark a discussion that will lead to a collective production.
Further information will follow regarding the practical arrangements for the next session and the associated logistics...
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Scientific project
Crisis situations, or crisis of globalization? What are the implications for educational research?
The proliferation of crises in which we find ourselves calls for a renewal of our epistemological frameworks with a view to developing a global mindset. Indeed, it seems increasingly inconceivable to separate the environment, health, society, and the economy, as demonstrated by the work carried out, for example, by socio-anthropologist F. Keck on recent and current pandemics:
https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-frederic-keck.html
Or economist Eloi Laurent, for whom weighing health against economics is epistemologically outdated nonsense and politically absurd:
https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-eloi-laurent.html
This is how, for example, the "One Health" movement is currently emerging as an integrated approach to ecosystem, environmental, and human health (Globalization of health risks, 2011),promoted in particular by B. De Sousa Santos in Brazil through the epistemologies of the South (De Sousa Santos, B.Les Epistémologies du Sud, Citizen movements and controversies surrounding science, Desclée de Brauwer, 2016); De Sousa Santos, B.The End of Cognitive Empire, London, Du Press University, 2018), and by J. Descarpentries in France (Sortir de la ligne de crête, Résister, Responsabiliser, Anticiper, Coopérer, E&S, Soumis, 2020).
This work and these approaches resonate with those conducted by researchers who, at the crossroads of philosophy and anthropology, question the relationship between nature and culture. These "ecosophers" (see profiles attached) invite us to adopt a global mindset that (re)articulates local knowledge and practices, encouraging us to rethink territoriality at its various local levels.
The scientific reflections (SHS) of Bon and Larrère (2018) on the implications of the Anthropocene, and those of geographer Lussault on the theme of "Inhabiting the world" and "Territorial care," are part of the same dynamic.
More generally, an overview of thecrisis category anda call for a major shift is extensively documented in the book "Bifurquer. Il n'a pas d'alternative"(Bifurcate. There is no alternative), edited by Bernard Stiegler with theInternation collective, Les liens qui libèrent, 2020 (back cover attached).
These crises encourage us, on the one hand, to reflect collectively on desirable and/or desired changes and on our positions as researchers (see, for example, the work of Daniel Curnier, Barthes, and Lange; slides attached), and, on the other hand, to question our epistemologies.