63.062 - Queer Eco-Pedagogies: Explorations in Nature, Sexuality, and Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session builds on momentum surrounding queer work within environmental education, while encouraging new connections with a growing body of literature dedicated to queer deconstructions of categories such as “nature,” “environment,” and “animal.” The session consists 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 authors provide important critical points of view for educators who seek to emphasize social and ecological justice by encouraging counter-hegemonic views of bodies, nature, and community. The scope of this session is inherently multi- or interdisciplinary in order to cast a wide net around what kinds of spaces, relationships, and practices are considered educational, pedagogical, or curricular.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Joshua James Russell, Canisius College

Papers

• Queer Evolution: (Re)Invigorating Environmental Education Through Queer Interpretations of Evolutionary Onto-Epistemological Choreography - Chessa Adsit-Morris; Noel Gough, La Trobe University

• Learning With, for, and as Queer Creatures - Joshua James Russell, Canisius College; Joy Riso, Canisius College; Lindsey Bradley, Canisius College

• Being Disturbed as a "Natural" Part of Survival - Jesse Bazzul, University of Regina; Michele Sorensen, The University of British Columbia

• Transgressive Learning: Queering Within the Unknown - Dyllan McGarry

• The Bad Animal Manifesto: Coyotes, Purple Loosestrife, and Gay Public Sex - Peter Hobbs, York University

Discussant

• Leesa K. Fawcett, York University