Document Type
Special Forum
Publication Date
8-25-2017
Abstract
As much as the "post-truth" needs to be challenged and countered, the humanities can play a crucial role in keeping alive the understanding that the pre-post-truth world ought not to be conserved, but transformed positively. After all, this was a world marked by accelerating anthropogenic climate change, by ongoing and transforming colonialism, by racism as a structural pillar, by misogyny and sexism. The environmental humanities must retain their historic radical mission, and they will founder if they surrender such a potential.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Pickard, Richard.
"No Time to Defend the Pre-Post-Truth World."
The Goose, vol. 16
,
no.
1
, article 29,
2017,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss1/29.
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