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ERIC Number: EJ1441671
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0095-8964
EISSN: EISSN-1940-1892
Rewilding on Slow Sabbatical: Revisiting Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic"
Loretta Pyles
Journal of Environmental Education, v55 n5 p402-413 2024
The human rewilding movement seeks to regain balance between humans and the more-than-human world through particular ways of knowing and doing. During a sabbatical, I engaged in "rewilding" practices and employed Terrapsychological Inquiry to understand my relationship with the more-than-human world. I sought to learn how this might support my work as a scholar, educator, and change maker in the face of managerialist neoliberal strains in higher education. While the problems of institutions require structural transformations, the professoriate itself must also access its own power. The authors of "The Slow Professor" suggest the possibilites of mindfulness, pleasure, and relationality. Audre Lorde's ideas are supportive as she connects "agency" to the epistemic ground of "erotic knowing." Through conversation between my field notes and literature, from the perspective of a white settler, I explore themes of the holding environment, reciprocity/relationality, sensorial attention, and wildness as decolonial pathways to re-existence.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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