Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
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This wide-ranging and timely collection of essays from transdisciplinary scholars in humanities, arts and sciences shows how speculative fiction can be used to think through pressing issues in academic research.
The terms ‘speculative’ and ‘speculative fictioning’ are growing in popularity in the field of education and interdisciplinary research methods, describing approaches based on asking ‘what if’ questions that reconsider the quotidian certainties of the past, present, and future.
Ideal for those wishing to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research, an introduction by Sarah E. Truman and a preface by major speculative fiction scholar, Steven Shaviro, provide a theoretical framework for understanding speculation as a creative research method and pedagogy. Each chapter includes reading guides, discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars. These essays show speculation in practice, with contributions from twenty-six international authors on issues as broad as climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, multi-national educational technologies, and gender. In reflective narratives and critical analyses contributors draw on speculative fiction texts to explain their field and introduce their personal research topics, covering works, authors and topics including Star Trek, Gattaca, Octavia Butler, meditation, 12th Century Islamic Science Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Borges, Severance and Arrival.
By interweaving diverse global perspectives with accessible writing on issues at the cutting-edge of contemporary scholarship, this work is an indispensable resource for educators, practitioners, students and scholars committed to imagining and building otherwise.
Sarah E. Truman is Associate Professor in English literary education, cultural studies, and arts methods at the University of Melbourne
Preface
Steven Shaviro, Emeritus Professor, Wayne State
Editor’s Intro - Reading Askant: speculative fictions across the disciplines
Sarah E. Truman, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
1. Creating Livable Worlds: A Personal Reflection on the Legacy of Octavia Butler’s Parables
Danielle Purifoy: Geographer, University of North Carolina
2. Dramatically reshaping the future itself: Amazon workers writing SF
Max Haiven: Canada Research Chair of the Radical Imagination, Lakehead University
3. Dreaming, Country, Ignorance, Hope?
Al Fricker: Dja Dja Wurrung Early Career Researcher, Deakin University
4. Edge of Tomorrow, disability, and the science fiction of technological enhancement
Kelly Fritsch: Associate Professor, Co-director of Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory, Carlton, University
5. Metis architectures and building justice
David Fortin: Director of Indigenous architecture agency and Professor, University of Waterloo
6. Speculative Meditation: Not So Distant
Chad Shomura: Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado
7. Truth, Fantasy, and the Historian’s Quest
Mati Keynes: Historian in Truth and Reconciliation, University of Melbourne
8. Edtech Sci-Fi
Ben Williamson: Senior Lecturer in Education Technologies, University of Edinburgh
9. Bioethics, science-fiction, & the myth of post-racial futures
Chris Mayes: Senior Lecturer in History and philosophy of healthcare, Deakin University
10.12th Century Islamic Science Fiction and the European Renaissance
Sikeena Karmalai: PhD Candidate in Islamic literary history, Warburg Institute, London
11.Race and AI:
Ezekiel Dixon-Roman, Professor of Social Justice Education, Colombia University
12.On Maps, Twins, and 3d Printing
Chris Davies: Professor of engineering, metallurgist, Monash University
13.Aliens, Script and the Gift: some thoughts on character design, mark-making and the idea of generosity
Yam Lau: Professor of Visual Art, York University
14.Severance, storytelling, and digital sociology
Ash Watson: Sociologist, University of New South Wales
15.Tending the tea dragons
Sid Mohandas: Early Childhood Education, Middlesex University
16.Abolition Science Fictioning
Phil Crockett Thomas: lecturer in Criminology, Stirling University
17.Machine Learning in Genomics: Judgement Day
Nirmal Vadgama: Senior Computational Biologist, Stanford University
18.The Political Economy of Science Fiction
Ali Riza Taskale: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Sciences
19.“Who Writes the Future?” Black and Brown SF Beyond Extraction
Kenia Hale: graduate student and scholar of race and technology, Princeton University
20.Feeling Climate Futures Now
Michael Richardson: Cultural Studies Professor, University of New South Wales,
21.The Borg, “Star Trek’s” disability problem, and ‘the future’ of in(ter)dependence in special education in England
David Ben Shannon: Lecturer of Disability and Arts Education, Sheffield University
22.Xenomathematics and the imagination: The possibility of trans-astronomical arithmetic
Elizabeth de Freitas: Professor Maths Education, Adelphi University
23.Unwriting British Imperialism: AI, SF and racial justice
Michael Salu: Multi-media Artist, London UK
24.Fallibility in science (education)
Tristan Gleesan, Associate Professor of Science Education, Humboldt University
25.Lovecraft Country: spectres of race and gender hauntings
Christopher Smith: Scholar of Black studies and Sexuality, University of Toronto
26.Repairing Broken Earths: geology and speculative future-pasts
Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography, Queen Mary University London
Afterword
Reading guide and questions
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-55771-4 / 1350557714 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-55771-0 / 9781350557710 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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