Queer Ecopedagogies

This volume builds on the momentum surrounding queer work within environmental education, while also encouraging new connections between environmental education research and the growing bodies of literature dedicated to queer deconstructions of categories such as nature, environment, and animal. The book is composed of submissions that engage with existing literature from queer ecology, queer theory, and various explorations of sexuality and gender within the context of human-animal-nature relationships. The book deepens and diversifies environmental education by providing new theoretical and methodological insights for scholarship and practice across a variety of educational contexts. Queer pedagogies provide important critical points of view for educators who seek broader goals centred around social and ecological justice by encouraging counter-hegemonic views of bodies, nature, and community. The scope of this book is multi- orinterdisciplinary in order to cast a wide net around what kinds of spaces, relationships, and practices are considered educational, pedagogical, or curricular. The volume includes chapters that are conceptual, theoretical, and empirical.

First volume on queer pedagogies in environmental education Blends educational theory and practical implications Includes indigenous authors' perspectives on queer environmental education

Autorentext

Dr. Joshua Russell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation and the Graduate Program Director of the Anthrozoology Master's Degree at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. His coursework and research focus on children's relationships with animals, critical pedagogy and environmental education, and the application of queer theory to animal studies and ecopedagogy. He is the editor of the forthcoming book, Queer Ecopedagogies. Joshua lives in Niagara Falls, Ontario with his partner Sean and their rescue dog, Penny.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Queer Ecopedagogies?.- Chapter 2. Queering Environmental Education (Redux).- Chapter 3. Tales from Camp Wilde: Queer(y)ing Environmental Education Research (Revisited).- Chapter 4. Whose Better? (re)Orientating a Queer Ecopedagogy (Again).- Chapter 5. Guess What? Reality is Already queer! A Return to Environmental Education as Creative Ontologies.- Chapter 6. Queering Evolution: The Socio-Political Entanglements of Natural and Cultural Evolutionary Mechanisms.- Chapter 7. Beside the Point: Queering the Body Natural.- Chapter 8. Learning As, Of, and With Queer Animals.- Chapter 9. Listening to voices from the margins: Transforming environmental education.- Chapter 10. The Pluriversity for Stuck Humxns: A Queer, Decolonial School EcoPedagogy.- Chapter 11. Queering Land-based Indigenous Education.