A cloud of smug over outdoor education : South Park, hybrid cars and environmental morality
conference contribution
posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00authored byMarylou 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.
History
Event
National Outdoor Education Conference (15th : 2007 : Ballarat, Vic.)
Pagination
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