Erin C. Adams is Associate Professor of Elementary Social Studies Education at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA. A former middle grades teacher, Dr. Adams’ research investigates how economic education discourses produces economic subjectivities, how metals, mining and extraction and its associated discourses operate, and how post qualitative inquiries might increase our understanding of the world. Her research is published in both research and practitioner journals, and she is co-editor, with Dr. Varga, of the Theory Study Reader for Social Studies, Teachers College Press.Bretton A. Varga is Associate Professor of History-Social Science at California State University, Chico. His research and approach to meaning-making are shaped by a commitment to cultivate hope, imagination, speculation, care, love, and justice across more-than-human contexts. In particular, his scholarship works with(in) critical posthuman theories of temporality, materiality, and feeling to unveil harmful structures, logics, and practices that perpetuate racial injustice and ecological precarity.

Erin C. Adams is Associate Professor of Elementary Social Studies Education at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA. A former middle grades teacher, Dr. Adams’ research investigates how economic education discourses produces economic subjectivities, how metals, mining and extraction and its associated discourses operate, and how post qualitative inquiries might increase our understanding of the world. Her research is published in both research and practitioner journals, and she is co-editor, with Dr. Varga, of the Theory Study Reader for Social Studies, Teachers College Press.Bretton A. Varga is Associate Professor of History-Social Science at California State University, Chico. His research and approach to meaning-making are shaped by a commitment to cultivate hope, imagination, speculation, care, love, and justice across more-than-human contexts. In particular, his scholarship works with(in) critical posthuman theories of temporality, materiality, and feeling to unveil harmful structures, logics, and practices that perpetuate racial injustice and ecological precarity.

Erin C. Adams is Associate Professor of Elementary Social Studies Education at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA. A former middle grades teacher, Dr. Adams’ research investigates how economic education discourses produces economic subjectivities, how metals, mining and extraction and its associated discourses operate, and how post qualitative inquiries might increase our understanding of the world. Her research is published in both research and practitioner journals, and she is co-editor, with Dr. Varga, of the Theory Study Reader for Social Studies, Teachers College Press.Bretton A. Varga is Associate Professor of History-Social Science at California State University, Chico. His research and approach to meaning-making are shaped by a commitment to cultivate hope, imagination, speculation, care, love, and justice across more-than-human contexts. In particular, his scholarship works with(in) critical posthuman theories of temporality, materiality, and feeling to unveil harmful structures, logics, and practices that perpetuate racial injustice and ecological precarity.