Freire’s original pedagogy relegated animals to ahistorical, non-becoming Others.

Evidence

With Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed just past the fiftieth anniversary of its original release, I am not surprised to find that others have written responses to the same points in the text that I take issue with myself. Akin to the perspective taken by Lauren Corman (2011), I have not agreed with Freire’s discussion of animals as ahistorical beings, incapable of risk-taking, devoid of self-awareness, merely living but never becoming (see Freire, 1970/1993, pp. 78–80). Corman (2011) thoroughly problematizes Freire’s anthropocentric and speciesist contentions, which position animals as Other. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1015

Categorization

• QUESTION: Freire himself, the liberator of the oppressed, built humanization on an exclusion of animals as lacking risk/self-awareness — worth chasing how widespread speciesism is at the foundation of otherwise-emancipatory theory.
• XREF: Parallels the ch10 critique that ‘free’ liberatory tools can encode hidden exclusions — a founder figure’s blind spot surviving into the canon. — connects to: Freire’s later work folded ecology into radical liberating pedagogy. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1016; Exclusionary practices against Others inflict harm by altering people’s social worth — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 71; Small bodily markers enforced the boundaries that enabled monstrous Others — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 89 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Exclusionary practices against Others inflict harm by altering people’s social worth #expands (0.75) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 71
• Coding Others as violent monsters normalizes the hero’s killing of them. #expands (0.72) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 609
• Small bodily markers enforced the boundaries that enabled monstrous Others #complicates (0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 89