Imaginaries of the Anthropocene and Critique in Management Schools. Stakeholders’ reactions in a French graduate school of management to the diagnoses of the Anthropocene
In this article we analyse the ways in which stakeholders of a French graduate school of management apprehend the diagnoses of the anthropocene, ecological collapse and climate breakdown. More precisely, we describe a pedagogical innovation that brings together academic knowledge from the earth and life sciences, and management students. Our results show how students’ ecological and climatic imaginaries will be transformed, resulting in various types of anthropocenic imaginaries. We suggest that the anthropocene shifts the configuration of criticism aimed at business schools. Finally, pedagogical experiences of the anthropocene open up new critical perspectives on management but lead to risky learning situations.