Awakening the "Walking Dead": Zombie Pedagogy for Millennials
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Wadsworth, N. D. (2017). Awakening the "Walking Dead": Zombie Pedagogy for Millennials. Radical Teacher, 107(1), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2017.260

Abstract

This article lays out the pedagogical benefits of using popular zombie productions, particularly AMC's The Walking Dead, to teach a critical introduction to modern political theory. Based on my undergraduate course: "Political Theory, Climate Change, and the Zombie Apocalypse," the article outlines how The Walking Dead can be used to critique the mythic assumptions built into modern social contract theory; to introduce other political ideologies, including conservatism, anarchism, fascism, and communism; and to consider the political challenges raised by a global problem such as climate change in an increasingly neoliberal environment. Zombie productions are offered as a particularly salient pedagogical tool that can help awaken critical political analysis for the Millennial Generation. 

 

 

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