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A cloud of smug over outdoor education : South Park, hybrid cars and environmental morality

conference contribution
posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by Marylou Preston
In an episode of South Park titled ‘Hey, People, You’ve Gotta Drive Hybrids Already’, Stan convinces townsfolk to buy hybrid cars. This reduces the rate of smog but creates a toxic cloud of ‘smug’. In this paper, I use this parody of eco-correctness to interrogate some of Outdoor Education’s environmental aims. Michel Foucault’s later work on the self, morality and governmentality is used to analyse the production of the [neo- iberal] ‘environmentally responsible citizen’. The possibilities and problems of contemporary citizenship discourse are explored in relation to findings from a longitudinal study of students undertaking a tertiary outdoor and environmental education course.

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Event

National Outdoor Education Conference (15th : 2007 : Ballarat, Vic.)

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1 - 1

Publisher

Victorian Outdoor Education Association

Location

Ballarat, Vic.

Place of publication

Carlton, Vic.

Start date

2007-09-20

End date

2007-09-23

Language

eng

Publication classification

EN.1 Other conference paper

Copyright notice

2007, Victorian Outdoor Education Association

Title of proceedings

15th National Outdoor Education Conference : Conference Proceedings : Sustaining our Spirit of Place

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