Contents
Foreword: Becoming Posthuman Social Studies Boni Wozolek ?xi
Acknowledgments ?xvii
Introduction: Be(com)ing Strange(r): Toward a Posthuman Social Studies Bretton A. Varga, Timothy Monreal, and Rebecca C. Christ ?1
1. ?Life Lessons: Posthuman Ideas About Life for an Enlivened Social Studies Education ?11
Mark E. Helmsing
2. ?A Thousand Deaths: Current Events and Racial Reproductions of the Dead and Dying ?23
Asilia Franklin-Phipps
3. ?Unsettling the ?Social? in Social Studies ?35
Cathryn van Kessel
4. ?Toppling the (Hu)Man: Posthumanism and the Mattering of Historical Spaces ?38
Francisco A. Medina, Karen Zaino, and Debbie Sonu
5. ?Lives in/of Things ?51
Sandra J. Schmidt
6. ?Cities as Pedagogues: Materiality in Paris?s Public Sphere as a Teacher of Consciousness ?54
Avner Segall
7. ?Mattering the Research ?68
Jelena Aleksic
8. ?Set in Stone?: Social Studies Teacher Candidates? Conceptions of Matter ?71
Morgan P. Tate and Amelia H. Wheeler
9. ?Following for the Community ?81
Polina Golovátina-Mora
10. ??I?m a Monster Now?: The Construction of Spacetimemattering Through Intra-Action in Childhood ?83
Fernando Guzmán-Simón and Alejandra Pacheco-Costa
11. ?Arboreal Methodologies: The Promise of Getting Lost (With Feminist New Materialism and Indigenous Ontologies) for Social Studies ?93
Jayne Osgood and Suzanne Axelsson
12. ?Into the Sea: A Fictive Speculation on How to Cope at the End of the World ?110
Peter M. Nelson
13. ?Not as Strange as Dying: Reimagining U.S. Social Studies as Place-Based and Decolonialized ?121
Janice Kroeger and Christine Widrig
14. ?Possibilities for Knowing Differently With a More-Than-Human Ladybird-Pedagogue ?133
Karen E. Barr and Hannah Seat
15. ?(In)Separatable: Social Studies With/out the Human ?136
Sarah B. Shear
16. ?The (Self/Re)generating Sacred Energy Called Teotl: Using Nahua Philosophy to Introduce Posthumanist Thinking ?139
Timothy Monreal and Jesús Tirado
17. ?Beading Shkodé ?149
Browning Neddeau
18. ?Re/Membering Ethical Relationality: Re/Telling Stories of Dis/citizenship as Lived ?151
Muna Saleh
19. ?Nonhuman Alliances ?163
Polina Golovátina-Mora
20. ?Youth Are Already Queer: Agentive Possibilities Among Queer TikTok Creators ?165
Sandra J. Schmidt, Eric Estes, and Isabel Gomez
21. ?Any/bodies: Posthumanism and Economics Education ?179
Erin C. Adams
22. ?Indeterminacy and Strangeness in the Posthuman Classroom: Thinking Toward Possibility ?191
Alexandra L. Page
23. ?Embracing Strangeness, but Not Becoming Strangers ?194
Alexander S. Butler
Afterword: Afterwards, Nathan Snaza ?205
Appendix: Guiding Concepts ?211
Endnotes ?217
Index ?227
About the Editors and Contributors ?236
