Building a Sustainable Future Through an Understanding of Neoliberalism, Youth, Art, and Resistance

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Building a Sustainable Future through An Understanding of Neoliberalism, Youth, Art, and Resistance
The purpose of this panel is twofold. The panelists highlight how corporate formations inside of K-12 schools in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa are blocking students, teachers, and the public from understanding how an unjust economic system is a significant cause of environmental problems and a failure to address them. They also illustrate how minoritized youth public pedagogies related to the arts as well a eco-critical framework have the potency to foster critical awareness to the impact of settler colonialism as well as to engender supportive socially just and sustainable communities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Ana Lucia Cruz, Saint Louis Community College

Papers

• Environmental Sustainability, Neoliberalism, and Social Justice - David W. Hursh, University of Rochester; Alice Jowett, University of Redlands

• Swallowed by a Sinkhole on the Way to School - Julia Hall, D'Youville College

• Awareness, Critique, and Resistance to Settler Colonialism Through Arts and Activism - Bradley J. Porfilio, California State University - East Bay; Julie Gorlewski, SUNY - College at New Paltz

• Pedagogies of Resistance: Counternarratives to Colonization - John Joseph Lupinacci, Washington State University - Pullman; Alison Happel, The University of Memphis

Discussants

• Richard V. Kahn, Antioch University Los Angeles

• Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University