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Launch of Special Issue “Climate Fiction of the Anthropocene” in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education, co-edited by ECU Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Cassandra Tytler

Thursday, 16 October 2025

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  • A character smells soil in a wine glass.

    Credit: Digital video still of 'It Will Not Be Pure' (2024), featuring the character from the soil-rich enclave smelling soil in a wine glass. Taken from Dr Tytler’s submission, Speculative Documentary as World-Building: Contaminated Knowledge and Future-Making', in the Climate Fiction of the Anthropocene issue of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education. Actor: Kara Perrin, Cinematographer: Fionn Mulholland.

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Dr Cassandra Tytler, Postdoctoral Fellow with Edith Cowan University’s Centre for People, Place and Planet and the Wellbeing and Education Research Group within the School of Education, was invited by Associate Professor Peta White (Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education) to serve as guest editor for the Special Issue “Climate Fiction of the Anthropocene.” She was joined by co-editors Dr Joe Ferguson and Professor Susan Oliver.

This Special Issue explores how Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) can expand environmental education through storytelling and speculation, helping readers grapple with the realities of the climate crisis. Rather than separating science from imagination, Cli-Fi moves within the in-between space where fact and fiction blur, prompting new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

The collection brings together authors from across Australia and around the world, including contributors from Mexico, England, Denmark, Indonesia (Bali), Belgium, Austria, Portugal, and Canada. Across three sections—Theorising Cli-Fi and its Application in Environmental Education, Cli-Fi in the Context of Environmental Education, and Cli-Fi as Creative Practice-as-Research for Environmental Education—the issue examines how stories of climate change can unsettle entrenched binaries, reveal embedded injustices, and open up imaginative futures.

Several members of ECU’s Centre for People, Place and Planet contributed papers to the issue, including Rumen Rachev, Dr Jo Pollitt, and Dr Cassandra Tytler, demonstrating CPPP’s growing engagement with creative and transdisciplinary approaches to environmental education.

Read the editorial here: https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2025.10076

Explore the full issue here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/australian-journal-of-environmental-education/issue/3B581AAE621026063773A14DAC58138F

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