Publication Details
Palmer, M.,
White, P.,
&
Wooltorton, S.
(2017).
Embodying our future through collaboration: The change is in the doing.
The Journal of Environmental Education, Early View (Online First).
Abstract
Contributors to this special edition have agreed that we want a future of ecojustice and ecological sustainability. Our paper unpacks experiences of oppression within the context of middle class academic privilege, undertaking resistances and working, in relationship, learning to live more sustainably in the Year of Living Sustainably. In this writing we argue the case for activism in the academy and collaboratively build resilience towards more sustainable ways of being. By co-writing and analysing fictionalised stories we demonstrate how contemporary universities contribute to the unsustainability of social and ecological systems. This paper presents a love story grounded in poststructural ecofeminist epistemology using collaborative autoethnography. Rather than re-presenting a heroic masculinist narrative of transcendence and success, we describe how our loving relationships support our activism.
Keywords
academic activism, poststructural ecofeminist epistemology, ecojustice, collaborative autoethnography
