Queer Ecopedagogies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction: Why Queer Ecopedagogies?

   • Joshua Russell

   Pages 1-17

3. Queering Environmental Education Redux

   • Constance Russell, Tema Sarick, Jacqueline Kennelly

   Pages 19-35

4. Tales from Camp Wilde: Queer(y)ing Environmental Education Research (Revisited)

   • Noel Gough, Annette Gough, Peter Applebaum, Sophia Applebaum, Mary Aswell Doll, Warren Sellers

   Pages 37-60

5. Whose Better? (Re)Orientating a Queer Ecopedagogy (Again)

   • Joshua Russell

   Pages 61-78

6. Guess What? Reality Is Already Queer! A Return to Environmental Education as Creative Ontologies

   • Jesse Bazzul, Michele Sorensen

   Pages 79-93

7. Queering Evolution: The Socio-political Entanglements of Natural and Cultural Evolutionary Mechanisms

   • Chessa Adsit-Morris, Noel Gough

   Pages 95-121

8. Beside the Point: Queering the Body Natural

   • Mary Aswell Doll

   Pages 123-138

9. Learning as, of, and with Queer Animals

   • Joshua Russell, Joy Riso, Lindsey Bradley

   Pages 139-160

10. Listening to Voices from the Margins: Transforming Environmental Education

    • Annette Gough

    Pages 161-181

11. The Pluriversity for Stuck Humxns: A Queer EcoPedagogy & Decolonial School

    • Dylan McGarry, Lena Weber, Anna James, Injairu Kulundu-Bolus, Taryn Pereira, Shruti Ajit et al.

    Pages 183-218

12. Queering Indigenous Land-Based Education

    • Alex Wilson, Jaylene Murray, Sara Loutitt, Richelle North Star Scott

    Pages 219-231

13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-246

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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.

• environmental education
• LGBTQ+ studies
• place-based education
• queer ecology
• queer pedagogy

• Department of Animal Behavior, Ecology, & Conservation, Canisius College, Buffalo, USA

  Joshua Russell

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.

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