1st Edition
Art, EcoJustice, and Education Intersecting Theories and Practices
1. Introduction: Contemporary Art as Critical, Revitalizing, and Imaginative Practice Toward Sustainable Communities
Raisa Foster and Rebecca Martusewicz
2. For the Most Important Parts of You: A Story About Science
Hala Alhomoud
3. Recognizing Mutuality: The More-Than-Human World and Me
Raisa Foster
4. The Experience of the Uncanny as a Challenge for Teaching Ecological Awareness
Antti Saari
5. Letters from Love’s Great Room: Fiction as Cultural Ecological Analysis and Pedagogy of Responsibility
Erin Stanley
6. Art Is That Which Takes Something Real and Makes It More Real Than It Was Before
Tommy Akulukjuk and Derek Rasmussen
7. Poetry and EcoJustice in a Kenyan Refugee Settlement
Veronica Gaylie
8. The Uncle Vanya Project: Performance, Landscape, Time
Bagryana Popov
9. For the Love of the Forest: Walking, Mapping, Making Textile Art
Kathleen Vaughan
10. Finding My Wound, Bandaging My Knife: Stimulating Inner Transformation through Art
Jussi Mäkelä
11. Building Ecological Ontologies: EcoJustice Education Becoming with(in) Art-science Activisms
Alicia Flynn and Aviva Reed
12. Apptivism, Farming, and EcoJustice Art Education
Anniina Suominen
13. Creativity as Intrinsic Ecological Consciousness
Srisrividhiya Kalyanasundaram (Srivi Kalyan)
14. Love in the Commons: Eros, Eco-Ethical Education, and a Poetics of Place
Rebecca Martusewicz
Biography
Raisa Foster is an independent artist and scholar, and was the Research Director of the Art-Eco Project from 2015 to 2017 in Tampere, Finland.
Jussi Mäkelä is an artist and PhD candidate at the University of Tampere, Finland, and was a Researcher for the Art-Eco Project from 2015 to 2017 in Tampere, Finland.
Rebecca A. Martusewicz is Professor of Social Foundations in the Department of Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
"This book is an exciting international exploration of how EcoJustice Education can, and must, intersect with Art and Art Education in order to address the devastating ecological crises in which we find ourselves. This collection gives educators much-needed resources to begin to understand how we can use art to creatively intervene in the harmful assumptions and practices that are impacting humans and the more-than-human world."
Alison Happel-Parkins, University of Memphis, USA
"This book offers strong ecocritical perspectives that reframe dominant assumptions in Western industrial culture. This timely anthology pushes EcoJustice scholars and educators to think—and feel—beyond the human-centered confines of the modernist assumptions constituting ‘what is’ and the possibilities of ‘what ought to be’ in regards to the role of art, and artistry, in re-imagining education."
John Lupinacci, Washington State University, USA
