TY - JOUR AU - Wadsworth, Nancy Dawn PY - 2017/02/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Awakening the "Walking Dead": Zombie Pedagogy for Millennials JF - Radical Teacher JA - rt VL - 107 IS - 1 SE - General Submissions DO - 10.5195/rt.2017.260 UR - http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/260 SP - 4-13 AB - <p>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. </p><p> </p><p> </p> ER -