ERIC Number: EJ1423871
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
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Living as Waste-Bodies in a Dump: Feral Sociality and Ecofeminist Education of Ecotone
Hyena Kim
Gender and Education, v36 n4 p312-327 2024
Living in a wasted world is an educational problem that requires a radical shift in more-than-human relationships. Education has served as a means for re/producing socio-ecological waste by legitimizing discrimination among earthly beings. Ecofeminism reveals a common mechanism underlying different hierarchies as well as embodied connections between more-than-human beings. I explore an alternative way to envision more-than-human education in a wasted world by combining ecofeminism with other fields. First, the relationship between more-than-human subordination and more-than-human entanglement is investigated in terms of waste-bodies. As waste-bodies reflect a crisis of world reproduction, I examine how gendered reproduction, education, and waste reinforce each other while creating fissures. The ferality of waste-bodies breaks forth from the ruptures, forming a more-than-human sociality. This creates a space for an ecofeminist education of ecotone that appreciates the exuberance of the liminal. I suggest more-than-human education as a transspecies responsibility materialized through sensual kinship with the world.
Descriptors: Feminism, Ecology, Environmental Education, Humanism, World Views, Social Change, Physical Environment, Depleted Resources, Self Concept, Human Body, Females, Cognitive Processes, Holistic Approach, Gender Discrimination, Power Structure, Gender Differences, Educational Discrimination, Sex Role
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