![Sample our Education journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5932/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Education.jpg"})
ABSTRACT
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.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Additional information
Notes on contributors
Hyena Kim
Hyena Kim is an associate professor of education at the College of Liberal Arts, Daegu University, South Korea. Her research interests include the pedagogy of waste, decolonizing and rewilding education, indigenous education, and environmental education. She has a particular interest in rethinking education in the age of ecological crisis by contextualizing it within the deep history of the human species and the planet.