Intersections of Environmental and Language Justice
Exploring Pedagogy, Art and Activism
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2026
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-3995-4996-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ELT/ESL
Illustrations
50 b/w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-4996-7 (9781399549967)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Deniz Ortactepe 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 Jyvaeskylae Radhika Borde is a Lecturer in Sustainability Transitions and Social Justice at the University of Leeds
Content
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Dina Gilio Whitaker
Introduction: Exploring the intersection of language and environment for social justice
Deniz Ortactepe Hart, Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Radhika Borde
PART I: Exploring ecological knowledge and voices of environmental justice
1. Social actor representations in children's environmental justice narratives: A critical linguistic analysis
Clare Cunningham & Helen Sauntson
2. A critical period for the linguistic encoding of ecological knowledge
David Stringer
3. Language learner, refugee, environmental activist? - Reflections on what researchers (don't) see
Johanna Ennser-Kananen
PART II - Cultivating sustainability in language and culture education: Transformative approaches
4. Approaching sustainability through interculturality: Lessons from an interdisciplinary and a transformative course design
Melodine Sommier, Yijing Wang & Ana Vasques
5. From Commodification to Sustainability?: Transforming an Intensive English Program Curriculum for Decoloniality
John Katunich, Di Liang, Jason Litzenberg, Nikki Mattson & Bryan McGeary
6. Environmental Education in the Language Classroom: English as a Foreign Language for Sustainable Futures
Reyyan Zuelal Yoeney, Adnan Yilmaz & Deniz Ortactepe Hart
7. Environmentally Responsible Pedagogy Model in the Second Language Classroom
Zeynep Erdil-Moody
8. Staging Climate Change: Leveraging Drama to Cultivate Environmental Justice in the EFL Classroom
Jepri Ali Saiful & Arif Bulan
9. The Pedagogy of the Oregon Water Values Project: Infusing water justice and activist applied linguistics
Janet Tom Cowal, Melissa Haeffner & Brandy B. Walker
PART III:
Co-thinking and rethinking language and environment for social justice
10. Water we to do?An everyday language framework to achieve water security
Shruti Sengupta, Rinan Shah & Abhishek Mitra
11. Sensing, communing, talking (and not): Academic humans and the culture-nature boundary
Mel M. Engman & Jenna Cushing-Leubner
12. Rooted in the neighbourhood: Place-based education initiatives in the Indian context
Vijayan Jithin, K. M. Adila Farisa & Anjitha Devarajan
13. Ontological Disobedience in Estado Vegetal (2017): Reimagining Communication and Ecological Justice through Non-Human Theatre
Paulina Bronfman
Conclusion: Language, Land, and Justice: A Transepistemic Reflection
Paul Meighan
References
Index
List of Figures
Foreword
Dina Gilio Whitaker
Introduction: Exploring the intersection of language and environment for social justice
Deniz Ortactepe Hart, Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Radhika Borde
PART I: Exploring ecological knowledge and voices of environmental justice
1. Social actor representations in children's environmental justice narratives: A critical linguistic analysis
Clare Cunningham & Helen Sauntson
2. A critical period for the linguistic encoding of ecological knowledge
David Stringer
3. Language learner, refugee, environmental activist? - Reflections on what researchers (don't) see
Johanna Ennser-Kananen
PART II - Cultivating sustainability in language and culture education: Transformative approaches
4. Approaching sustainability through interculturality: Lessons from an interdisciplinary and a transformative course design
Melodine Sommier, Yijing Wang & Ana Vasques
5. From Commodification to Sustainability?: Transforming an Intensive English Program Curriculum for Decoloniality
John Katunich, Di Liang, Jason Litzenberg, Nikki Mattson & Bryan McGeary
6. Environmental Education in the Language Classroom: English as a Foreign Language for Sustainable Futures
Reyyan Zuelal Yoeney, Adnan Yilmaz & Deniz Ortactepe Hart
7. Environmentally Responsible Pedagogy Model in the Second Language Classroom
Zeynep Erdil-Moody
8. Staging Climate Change: Leveraging Drama to Cultivate Environmental Justice in the EFL Classroom
Jepri Ali Saiful & Arif Bulan
9. The Pedagogy of the Oregon Water Values Project: Infusing water justice and activist applied linguistics
Janet Tom Cowal, Melissa Haeffner & Brandy B. Walker
PART III:
Co-thinking and rethinking language and environment for social justice
10. Water we to do?An everyday language framework to achieve water security
Shruti Sengupta, Rinan Shah & Abhishek Mitra
11. Sensing, communing, talking (and not): Academic humans and the culture-nature boundary
Mel M. Engman & Jenna Cushing-Leubner
12. Rooted in the neighbourhood: Place-based education initiatives in the Indian context
Vijayan Jithin, K. M. Adila Farisa & Anjitha Devarajan
13. Ontological Disobedience in Estado Vegetal (2017): Reimagining Communication and Ecological Justice through Non-Human Theatre
Paulina Bronfman
Conclusion: Language, Land, and Justice: A Transepistemic Reflection
Paul Meighan
References
Index