Bringing together an international group of contributors from India, Turkey, Chile, the USA, the UK, Finland and the Netherlands, the book showcases critical, intersectional perspectives that shed light on language as an important lens for understanding and transforming our ecological realities. Through pedagogical, political, artistic and activist approaches, the contributors show that advancing environmental justice and advocating for language justice (can) go hand in hand.The book explores how environmental and language justice intersect in a variety of different contexts such as language classrooms, social activism, arts, policymaking and community- based research. Featuring a variety of genres, including artistic, conceptual, reflective, empirical and pedagogical pieces, the chapters analyse how language and environmental learning co-occur, how language rights and environmental literacy are intertwined and how activism can be strengthened through attention to both language and environmental issues.
Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart is Lecturer in the TESOL program at the University of Glasgow Johanna Ennser-Kananen is an Associate Professor of English and Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä Radhika Borde is a Lecturer in Sustainability Transitions and Social Justice at the University of Leeds
Table of ContentsList of FiguresForewordDina Gilio WhitakerIntroduction: Exploring the intersection of language and environment for social justiceDeniz Ortaçtepe Hart, Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Radhika BordePART I: Exploring ecological knowledge and voices of environmental justice 1. Social actor representations in children’s environmental justice narratives: A critical linguistic analysisClare Cunningham & Helen Sauntson2. A critical period for the linguistic encoding of ecological knowledgeDavid Stringer3. Language learner, refugee, environmental activist? - Reflections on what researchers (don’t) seeJohanna Ennser-KananenPART II – Cultivating sustainability in language and culture education: Transformative approaches4. Approaching sustainability through interculturality: Lessons from an interdisciplinary and a transformative course designMélodine Sommier, Yijing Wang & Ana Vasques5. From Commodification to Sustainability?: Transforming an Intensive English Program Curriculum for DecolonialityJohn Katunich, Di Liang, Jason Litzenberg, Nikki Mattson & Bryan McGeary6. Environmental Education in the Language Classroom: English as a Foreign Language for Sustainable FuturesReyyan Zülal Yöney, Adnan Yilmaz & Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart7. Environmentally Responsible Pedagogy Model in the Second Language ClassroomZeynep Erdil-Moody 8. Staging Climate Change: Leveraging Drama to Cultivate Environmental Justice in the EFL ClassroomJepri Ali Saiful & Arif Bulan9. The Pedagogy of the Oregon Water Values Project: Infusing water justice and activist applied linguisticsJanet Tom Cowal, Melissa Haeffner & Brandy B. WalkerPART III: Co-thinking and rethinking language and environment for social justice10. Water we to do?An everyday language framework to achieve water securityShruti Sengupta, Rinan Shah & Abhishek Mitra11. Sensing, communing, talking (and not): Academic humans and the culture-nature boundaryMel M. Engman & Jenna Cushing-Leubner12. Rooted in the neighbourhood: Place-based education initiatives in the Indian contextVijayan Jithin, K. M. Adila Farisa & Anjitha Devarajan 13. Ontological Disobedience in Estado Vegetal (2017): Reimagining Communication and Ecological Justice through Non-Human TheatrePaulina BronfmanConclusion: Language, Land, and Justice: A Transepistemic ReflectionPaul MeighanReferencesIndex
Bringing together an international group of contributors from India, Turkey, Chile, the USA, the UK, Finland and the Netherlands, the book showcases critical, intersectional perspectives that shed light on language as an important lens for understanding and transforming our ecological realities. Through pedagogical, political, artistic and activist approaches, the contributors show that advancing environmental justice and advocating for language justice (can) go hand in hand.The book explores how environmental and language justice intersect in a variety of different contexts such as language classrooms, social activism, arts, policymaking and community- based research. Featuring a variety of genres, including artistic, conceptual, reflective, empirical and pedagogical pieces, the chapters analyse how language and environmental learning co-occur, how language rights and environmental literacy are intertwined and how activism can be strengthened through attention to both language and environmental issues.
Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart is Lecturer in the TESOL program at the University of Glasgow Johanna Ennser-Kananen is an Associate Professor of English and Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä Radhika Borde is a Lecturer in Sustainability Transitions and Social Justice at the University of Leeds
Table of ContentsList of FiguresForewordDina Gilio WhitakerIntroduction: Exploring the intersection of language and environment for social justiceDeniz Ortaçtepe Hart, Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Radhika BordePART I: Exploring ecological knowledge and voices of environmental justice 1. Social actor representations in children’s environmental justice narratives: A critical linguistic analysisClare Cunningham & Helen Sauntson2. A critical period for the linguistic encoding of ecological knowledgeDavid Stringer3. Language learner, refugee, environmental activist? - Reflections on what researchers (don’t) seeJohanna Ennser-KananenPART II – Cultivating sustainability in language and culture education: Transformative approaches4. Approaching sustainability through interculturality: Lessons from an interdisciplinary and a transformative course designMélodine Sommier, Yijing Wang & Ana Vasques5. From Commodification to Sustainability?: Transforming an Intensive English Program Curriculum for DecolonialityJohn Katunich, Di Liang, Jason Litzenberg, Nikki Mattson & Bryan McGeary6. Environmental Education in the Language Classroom: English as a Foreign Language for Sustainable FuturesReyyan Zülal Yöney, Adnan Yilmaz & Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart7. Environmentally Responsible Pedagogy Model in the Second Language ClassroomZeynep Erdil-Moody 8. Staging Climate Change: Leveraging Drama to Cultivate Environmental Justice in the EFL ClassroomJepri Ali Saiful & Arif Bulan9. The Pedagogy of the Oregon Water Values Project: Infusing water justice and activist applied linguisticsJanet Tom Cowal, Melissa Haeffner & Brandy B. WalkerPART III: Co-thinking and rethinking language and environment for social justice10. Water we to do?An everyday language framework to achieve water securityShruti Sengupta, Rinan Shah & Abhishek Mitra11. Sensing, communing, talking (and not): Academic humans and the culture-nature boundaryMel M. Engman & Jenna Cushing-Leubner12. Rooted in the neighbourhood: Place-based education initiatives in the Indian contextVijayan Jithin, K. M. Adila Farisa & Anjitha Devarajan 13. Ontological Disobedience in Estado Vegetal (2017): Reimagining Communication and Ecological Justice through Non-Human TheatrePaulina BronfmanConclusion: Language, Land, and Justice: A Transepistemic ReflectionPaul MeighanReferencesIndex