ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to open spaces for the reader to consider the possibilities of posthuman literacies, particularly more-than-just-human, or just Man's, ways of knowing/becoming/doing literacies. It illustrates staying with the trouble through conversations on literacies in and out of school spaces, across global contexts, and with a diverse age range of students. The book considers what posthumanism can produce for literacy education. How might research, pedagogies, schools, and relationships with families and with materials be otherwise if the authors lived out posthumanism in our practices? The book explores the ethical dimensions of posthumanist theory and wrestle with the ethical implications of performativity in a world that is always already relational, but not necessarily teleological. Karin Murris (2016) discusses these humanist, future-oriented assumptions and practices as ontoepistemic injustice.
