Journal article
water/watery/watering: Concepts for Theorising in Environmental Education
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol.36(Special issue 2), pp.146-168
07/2020
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Abstract
The assemblage of water/watery/watering is a lively cartography of how water may be accounted for when theorising with and through environmental education research. Challenging the universalising claims of Western technoscience and the colonial logic of extraction, the article develops an alternative theoretical mapping of environmental education through engagements with Ingold’s (2007, 2012, 2015) concepts of lines, knots, and knotting. For this article and for the Special Issue in which it is housed, the concepts of such knottings are defined as an assemblage of haecceities, lived events that are looped, tethered and entangled as material and conceptual agencies that inhere within situated encounters. Thus, this article grapples with the need to account for water differently in contemporary posthuman ecologies. To overcome anthropocentric and mastery-oriented approaches, various other ways to account for water in science or environmental education will continue to come to the surface, bubbling and rushing like a waterfall as they have done in this work. Some of these will include thinking with water, which will be central to a theoretical mapping of water that seeks embrace sticky knots. The article explores a (re)turn to artful practices and encounters as spaces in which posthumanist concepts for environmental education might be cultivated.
Details
- Title
- water/watery/watering: Concepts for Theorising in Environmental Education
- Creators
- Alexandra Lasczik (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityDavid Rousell (Author) - RMIT UniversityYaw Ofosu-Asare (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityAngela V Foley (Author) - Western Sydney UniversityKatie Hotko (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityFerdousi Khatun (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityMarie-Laurence Paquette (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol.36(Special issue 2), pp.146-168
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK
- Number of pages
- 23
- Identifiers
- 991012927082702368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article