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Composing new understandings of sustainability in the Anthropocene

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The relationship between sustainability and the Anthropocene takes on new meaning in a time of unprecedented human impact on Earth systems. This relationship is at times contested and not well researched but critical in considering how we will respond to environmental challenges of today and the future. Elaborating on the need for new perspectives and nuanced understandings of sustainability, the contributors to this volume draw on posthumanist and “new” feminist materialist methodologies and theoretical lenses to engage readers in ways, which often contrast with prevailing thinking and research. From the cosmopolitics of place in urban Berlin to the watery space of urban wetlands they share research and rich narratives, which illustrate how sustainability is theorized and enacted across a range of diverse educational contexts. Moving beyond the rhetoric of sustainability, the authors invite us to explore innovative ways to engage with new concepts and emerging tensions that are now influencing the fields of education and sustainability.

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  1. University of Georgia, 105 Aderhold Hall, 110 Carlton Street, Athens, GA, 30602, USA

    Sophia (Sun Kyung) Jeong, Mel Kutner & Deborah Tippins

  2. Department of Early Childhood, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple St., Carrollton, GA, 30118, USA

    Stacey Britton

  3. Department of Education, Thomas More College, 333 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills, KY, 41017, USA

    Kimberly Haverkos

  4. North Dakota State University, P.O. Box 6050, Dept. 2625, Fargo, ND, 58108, USA

    Teresa Shume

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This review addresses issues raised in the book: Malone, K., Truong, S., & Gray, T. (Eds.). (2017). Reimagining sustainability in precarious times.

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Jeong, S., Britton, S., Haverkos, K. et al. Composing new understandings of sustainability in the Anthropocene. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 13, 299–315 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-017-9829-x

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