Petro-pedagogy: fossil fuel interests and the obstruction of climate justice in public education
Petro-pedagogy: fossil fuel interests and the obstruction of climate justice in public education
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DOI：
10.1080/13504622.2019.1650164
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发表时间：
2019-09-04
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Day, Nick A.
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作者：
Eaton, Emily M.;Day, Nick A.
公司对能源生产的控制以及化石资本对公民和政治社会的影响可以被理解为一种阻碍制度，它阻碍了针对气候变化采取必要行动并阻碍公正的能源转型。除了公开形式的经济实力和影响力之外，霸权力量也是化石燃料行业阻碍制度的核心。本文基于 29 次访谈和对第三方教学资源的分析，展示了教学实践和资源如何集中、合法化和巩固一系列与气候变化、能源和环保主义相关的信念，这些信念符合加拿大萨斯喀彻温省化石燃料行业参与者的利益。我们认为，这些教学实践促进了学生的主体性，与新自由主义环保主义相一致，新自由主义环保主义以个人行动为中心，旨在使化石燃料行业免受批评，并阻止年轻人质疑或理解企业权力在气候危机中的作用。此外，这种石油教育学旨在将可能的气候解决方案的想象力限制在无法挑战化石燃料消费结构性增长的个人保护行为上。本文将这些教学实践和资源作为阻碍制度的“教学手段”。
The corporate control of energy production and the reach of fossil capital into civil and political society can be understood as a regime of obstruction that is preventing necessary action on climate change and blocking a just energy transition. In addition to overt forms of economic power and influence, hegemonic power is central to the fossil fuel industry's regime of obstruction. Based on 29 interviews and an analysis of third-party teaching resources, this article shows how teaching practices and resources work to centre, legitimize, and entrench a set of beliefs relating to climate change, energy, and environmentalism that align with the interests of fossil fuel industry actors in Saskatchewan, Canada. We argue that these pedagogical practices promote student subjectivities consistent with neoliberal environmentalism centred on individual actions designed to insulate fossil fuel industries from criticism and dissuade young people from questioning or understanding the role of corporate power in the climate crisis. Furthermore, this petro-pedagogy intends to restrict the imagination of possible climate solutions to individual acts of conservation that fail to challenge the structural growth of fossil fuel consumption. This paper advances these teaching practices and resources as a 'pedagogical arm' of the regime of obstruction.