En-gendering the material in environmental education research: Reassembling otherwise

ABSTRACT

In this article, I attempt to explore new and emerging possibilities for conceptualizing qualitative research that might be appropriate for questions those interested in gender issues in environmental education might have. Using two examples, I suggest the application of concepts, framed theoretically and methodologically. Concepts of subjectivity and becoming present possibilities for approaches to questions of being and being in relation. Coming to deeper understandings of individuals’ gendered subjectivities, such as that of “ontologies of becoming,” present new possibilities for engaging issues of gender. These concepts can be useful in taking up questions of gender and could be applied by those interested in addressing gender issues in environmental education research.

KEYWORDS:

• gendered subjectivities
• new materialisms
• theoretical concepts

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Notes

1. en·gen·der

v. en·gen·dered, en·gen·der·ing, en·gen·ders

v.tr.

1. To bring into existence; give rise to: “Every cloud engenders not a storm” (Shakespeare).

2. To procreate; propagate.

v.intr.

To come into existence; originate.