What can the aspirational humanities teach us?
Abstract
This paper focuses on the aspirational stance of varieties such as environmental and urban humanities to better understand the opportunities and risks associated with the humanities reaching outward, especially in the context of so-called societal challenges, wicked problems, and missions. The analysis takes a genealogical and discourse-centered approach, considering individual epistemic traditions alongside shared patterns in relation to how these fields have been negotiated and developed, to bring forth tensions useful for considering the how of engaging humanistic knowledge to collaboratively respond to challenges and problems, not only through individual projects or even fields, but in terms of capacity building.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Education and Critical Thinking Development
Reflective Practices in Education
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 232–258
- Publication date
- 1 June 2026
- Language
- EN