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Manners of inhabiting the Earth in ecological fiction albums

Manières d’habiter la Terre dans les albums de fiction écologique

Résumé

Why look at ways of inhabiting the Earth in children's literature? At a time when the relationship between man and his environment is undergoing upheaval, we need to get away from the idea that inhabiting the Earth means occupying a piece of space for our own benefit, building individual, collective and urbanised structures on neutralised land, with no real connection to the rest of nature, which is rejected to the outside world. This model has reached the end of its tether: what alternative can we find to replace the ways of inhabiting the Earth that are helping to suffocate it? How can we ensure that our ways of living re-establish links with other living beings, instead of separating us from them, or even protecting us from them? Revitalising our ways of living through children's literature, because it enables us to ‘imagine and even reinvent the many human interactions with the physical environment and animal and plant communities’, is the hypothesis we wish to explore in this article. The analysis of the ecofiction albums we have chosen to study aims to bring to light these new issues linked to new ways of inhabiting the Earth, in order to identify some significant markers of such a change of perspective. Inhabiting the Earth in a different way means, in a first approach: ‘co-habiting’ and ‘making territory’. Co-inhabiting is not the same as coexisting; it's a test of the interdependence between living beings, human and non-human. Creating a territory is not about occupying a piece of land, it's about ensuring that living beings, in all their diversity, have something in common to share. In this article, we propose an ‘eco-critical’ reading, based on an epistemological, sensitive and ethical approach, of a corpus of contemporary ecofiction albums. Our perspective is educational in the sense that reading these books can teach young children to envisage new relationships between living humans and living non-humans, as well as new ways of creating territory between living beings. Lastly, reading these books helps to foster a culture that reconciles the sensitive, reflective and ethical aspects as a tool for thinking about individual and collective action. Let's pose the following research question: what role can ecofiction albums play in raising young readers' awareness of the issues underlying different ways of inhabiting the Earth? In the first part, we will draw on recent contributions to the philosophy of ecology, bringing into play the dimensions of epistemology, sensitivity and ethics. We will then highlight the educational biases involved in dealing with environmental issues, and justify the use of fiction to explore possible ways of living on Earth. In the second part, we will study a corpus of ecological fiction albums to assess their ability to grasp the epistemological, sensitive and ethical dimensions.
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hal-04784257 , version 1 (09-01-2025)

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Catherine Bruguiere, Melissa Ghomman, Jean-Loup Heraud, Olivier Morin, Emilie Tremey, et al.. Manières d’habiter la Terre dans les albums de fiction écologique. Cahiers Robinson, 2024, Entre émerveillement et engagement. Littérature de jeunesse et écologie, 56, pp.127-159. ⟨hal-04784257⟩
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