The Carrier Bag of Geostories: Transformative Pedagogy for Human-Lithic Enmeshment
Abstract
This article presents the conceptual framing and course design of a literary and cultural studies seminar that brings arts- and place-based methodologies into dialogue with elemental ecocriticism, feminist materialisms, speculative geology, geopoetics, and inhuman geography. Introducing a process-oriented assignment titled ‘The Carrier Bag of Geostories’, we reflect on the course as an occasion for transformative learning and advocate pedagogical strategies of generative estrangement and the cultivation of familiarity with the inhuman to foster eco-systemic literacy and expand students’ capacities for environmental affect and agency.
Submitted: Sept. 1, 2025 | Accepted: Oct. 17, 2025 | Published Dec. 18, 2025 | Language: en
Keywords Place-based education • Planetary sensing • Transformative learning • Artistic research • Elemental ecocriticism • Aesthetic practice • Geological turn • Environmental affect
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