Queer Ecopedagogies

This volume builds on the momentum surrounding queer work within environmental education, while also encouraging new connections between environmentaleducation research and the growing bodies of literature dedicated to queerdeconstructions of categories such as "nature," "environment," and "animal." The book iscomposed of submissions that engage with existing literature from queer ecology,queer theory, and various explorations of sexuality and gender within the context ofhuman-animal-nature relationships. The book deepens and diversifies environmental education by providing new theoretical and methodological insights for scholarship andpractice across a variety of educational contexts. Queer pedagogies provide importantcritical points of view for educators who seek broader goals centred around social andecological justice by encouraging counter-hegemonic views of bodies, nature, andcommunity. The scope of this book is multi- orinterdisciplinary in order to cast awide 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.