Abstract
This essay draws upon my experiences teaching the undergraduate course, “Communication at the End of the World,” to argue for an approach to critical communication pedagogy (CCP) contextualized by and reflexively responsive to planetary-scale ecological crises. I outline how five commitments have come to guide my classroom’s explorations through our topic of “end-times” communication: (1) Anthropocentrism and speciesism participate in the maintenance of social hierarchy; (2) environmental justice and social justice are intimately entangled projects; (3) ecological crisis is (re)made concrete, embodied, proximal, and implicative; (4) critique of language involves critique of humanism and humanist historicization; and, (5) ecologically just speculative futurity is requisite to political praxis. These commitments complicate and elaborate upon Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren’s (2007) 10 commitments for CCP.
DOI
10.31446/JCP.2025.1.07
Author ORCID Identifier
Tyler S. Rife: 0009-0008-6841-2841 
Recommended Citation
Rife, T. S. (2025). Critical communication pedagogy at the end of the world. Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 9, 63–76. https://doi.org/10.31446/JCP.2025.1.07
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