Intersections of Environmental and Language Justice

Deniz Ortaçtepe 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 Jyväskylä Radhika Borde is a Lecturer in Sustainability Transitions and Social Justice at the University of Leeds

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresForewordDina Gilio WhitakerIntroduction: Exploring the intersection of language and environment for social justiceDeniz Ortaçtepe Hart, Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Radhika BordePART I: Exploring ecological knowledge and voices of environmental justice 1. Social actor representations in children’s environmental justice narratives: A critical linguistic analysisClare Cunningham & Helen Sauntson2. A critical period for the linguistic encoding of ecological knowledgeDavid Stringer3. Language learner, refugee, environmental activist? - Reflections on what researchers (don’t) seeJohanna Ennser-KananenPART II – Cultivating sustainability in language and culture education: Transformative approaches4. Approaching sustainability through interculturality: Lessons from an interdisciplinary and a transformative course designMélodine Sommier, Yijing Wang & Ana Vasques5. From Commodification to Sustainability?: Transforming an Intensive English Program Curriculum for DecolonialityJohn Katunich, Di Liang, Jason Litzenberg, Nikki Mattson & Bryan McGeary6. Environmental Education in the Language Classroom: English as a Foreign Language for Sustainable FuturesReyyan Zülal Yöney, Adnan Yilmaz & Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart7. Environmentally Responsible Pedagogy Model in the Second Language ClassroomZeynep Erdil-Moody 8. Staging Climate Change: Leveraging Drama to Cultivate Environmental Justice in the EFL ClassroomJepri Ali Saiful & Arif Bulan9. The Pedagogy of the Oregon Water Values Project: Infusing water justice and activist applied linguisticsJanet Tom Cowal, Melissa Haeffner & Brandy B. WalkerPART III: Co-thinking and rethinking language and environment for social justice10. Water we to do?An everyday language framework to achieve water securityShruti Sengupta, Rinan Shah & Abhishek Mitra11. Sensing, communing, talking (and not): Academic humans and the culture-nature boundaryMel M. Engman & Jenna Cushing-Leubner12. Rooted in the neighbourhood: Place-based education initiatives in the Indian contextVijayan Jithin, K. M. Adila Farisa & Anjitha Devarajan 13. Ontological Disobedience in Estado Vegetal (2017): Reimagining Communication and Ecological Justice through Non-Human TheatrePaulina BronfmanConclusion: Language, Land, and Justice: A Transepistemic ReflectionPaul MeighanReferencesIndex