Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Part I Learning to Live in the Anthropocene
Dilemma 1 The Shock of Recognition: (De)Politicizing Education 3
1 Introduction: Education's Task in the Anthropocene 7
2 A Bittersweet Landscape 39
Part II Schooling on the High Anthropocene's Frontier
Dilemma 2 Representing Liminality: Total Institution or Tough Love? 61
3 The Origins of Depoliticization 67
4 Reading the Cultural Landscapes of Schooling: Depoliticization and Hope 99
Part III What is the Alternative? 
Dilemma 3 The Myth of Impartiality, or How I (Almost) Became an Activist 147
5 Environmental Activism: An Answer to Educating for the Anthropocene 151
6 Toward a Different Anthropocene Politics 195
Notes 211
References 241
Index 271

About the Author

Peter Sutoris is an environmental anthropologist, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Education at the University of York, and Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London.