Politics of relations tend to be erased in narratives of power around technology and science which strive for the objective or objectivity, leaving little space for the embodied, subjective and affective. Science and environmental scholars rooted in Indigenous philosophies and posthumanism have called for a shift in practice, advocating for an education that centers human and more-than-human (MTH) relations which are essential pedagogical pivots to form new imaginaries of more just and social-ecological futures. Building on these ideas and by engaging with art and arts-based methods, we explore human-plant relations beyond a dualistic framing grounded in human exceptionality and binaries of subjects and objects, culture and nature. We consider relations and care in everyday entanglements and plant relations of which humans are part, centering restorying that weaves an otherwise of sustainability education. We offer five vignettes drawn from our work and relations, making visible reciprocal relations constitutive of human-plant-nature entanglements. We ask: To what extent are these projects examples of agentic space-making that nurtures the relational with plants? To what degree do these activities facilitate an epistemological shift essential to walking in good ways, in and through reciprocal caring relations with plants and land.

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Weaving an Otherwise of Sustainability Education in Canada Through Restorying with Plants

  • Jrène Rahm,
  • Miwa A. Takeuchi

摘要

Politics of relations tend to be erased in narratives of power around technology and science which strive for the objective or objectivity, leaving little space for the embodied, subjective and affective. Science and environmental scholars rooted in Indigenous philosophies and posthumanism have called for a shift in practice, advocating for an education that centers human and more-than-human (MTH) relations which are essential pedagogical pivots to form new imaginaries of more just and social-ecological futures. Building on these ideas and by engaging with art and arts-based methods, we explore human-plant relations beyond a dualistic framing grounded in human exceptionality and binaries of subjects and objects, culture and nature. We consider relations and care in everyday entanglements and plant relations of which humans are part, centering restorying that weaves an otherwise of sustainability education. We offer five vignettes drawn from our work and relations, making visible reciprocal relations constitutive of human-plant-nature entanglements. We ask: To what extent are these projects examples of agentic space-making that nurtures the relational with plants? To what degree do these activities facilitate an epistemological shift essential to walking in good ways, in and through reciprocal caring relations with plants and land.