{"id":7087,"date":"2017-11-01T07:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2017-11-01T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:47:45","slug":"theres-nowt-so-queer-as-ee-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/11\/01\/theres-nowt-so-queer-as-ee-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"There's nowt so queer as EE folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Russell (Canisius College, Buffalo) is seeking contributions to a book called\u00a0<em>Queer EcoPedagogies: Explorations in Sexuality, Nature, and Education. \u00a0<\/em>His call begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2002, Constance Russell, Tema Sarick, and Jacqueline Kennelly wrote what was\u00a0arguably the first foray into queer theory in environmental education (EE) research,\u00a0drawing scholarly attention to the potential \u201cin explicitly and actively \u2018queering\u2019\u00a0environmental education\u201d (2002, p. 55). Shortly thereafter, Gough, Gough, Applebaum,\u00a0Doll, and Sellers, invited environmental educators to walk the difficult path of exposing\u00a0and \u201cqueer(y)ing\u201d the field\u2019s \u201cheteronormative constructedness\u201d by visiting the\u00a0imaginary Camp Wilde (Gough et al., 2003, pp. 44-45). However, a period of silence\u00a0followed these important calls for applying and performing queer theory within\u00a0environmental education research and scholarship. \u00a0...\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How I remember the wearisome seminars on all this at the time, with their attempts to shock us out of our liberal certainties. \u00a0How I welcomed the silence.<\/p>\n<p>Russell's suggestions [**] for potential themes and topics for the book include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the potential connections to be made between queer ecology and\u00a0environmental education research and practice?<\/li>\n<li>In what ways might queer theory contribute to various educational commitments\u00a0seeking to unsettle anthropocentrism, heterosexism, and other oppressive views\u00a0of human-environment relationships?<\/li>\n<li>In what ways can queer educators trouble the categories of \u201chuman,\u201d \u201cnonhuman,\u201d\u00a0and \u201cnature\u201d in ways that promote the enactment of more just, caring,\u00a0and diverse multi-species communities and societies?<\/li>\n<li>What are the various tensions surrounding gender and sexuality within\u00a0environmental education scholarship and practice? \u00a0What new paths might we\u00a0seek in addressing these tensions?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent is \"keep buggering on\" an adequate or appropriate strategy for environmental educators to adopt given the existential threats we face?<\/li>\n<li>In what curricular \u201cspaces\u201d do environmental educators apply, practice, or\u00a0perform queer pedagogies?<\/li>\n<li>What are the challenges and possibilities for emphasizing queerness in the\u00a0various existing or established educational frameworks addressing humananimal-nature concerns (e.g., humane education, conservation education,\u00a0education for sustainability\/sustainable development, outdoor education,\u00a0environmental education)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those interested should contact the editor:\u00a0russellj@canisius.edu<\/p>\n<p>......................................................<\/p>\n<p>** I need to say that only six of these suggestions are Russell's. \u00a0One is mine. \u00a0But which one? \u00a0Answers on a postcard to the usual address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Russell (Canisius College, Buffalo) is seeking contributions to a book called\u00a0Queer EcoPedagogies: Explorations in Sexuality, Nature, and Education. \u00a0His call begins: In 2002, Constance Russell, Tema Sarick, and Jacqueline Kennelly wrote what was\u00a0arguably the first foray into queer theory...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}