Art, activism and education: a school human chain in response to the Prestige oil spill
Abstract
A human chain formed by thousands of schoolchildren was deployed along the Galician coast in January 2003, as part of the social mobilization related to the Prestige oil spill. This action was part of the social response to the management of the oil spill crisis, where aesthetics often intertwined with social and environmental activism. In this text, we embrace the aesthetic potential of dissent and understand the action as a major collective performance. We begin by researching materials from newspaper archives and scientific articles, analyze the context and the agents involved, and then propose an analysis of the implications for the fields of environmental education and critical pedagogy.
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