What’s new? Projections, prospects, limits and silences in “new” theory and “post” North-South representations

Abstract

This “in process” Conclusion to the Special Issue (SI) “Global politics of knowledge production in EER: ‘New’ theory and North-South representations” (The Journal of Environmental Education) aims to highlight relevant issues and acknowledged limitations and silences from the sample of critiques presented in the SI, all built from a pre-elaborated research agenda and methodological framework for reviewing/revisiting, and possibly de and reconstructing of “new” and “post” (theory). The formulated critique is presented as a prelude to shedding much more critical, praxical, conceptual and empirical “light” on discussing and challenging certain ideas, or ideals, or illusions in environmental education research. Praxis remains to be a notable (epistemological; methodological; pedagogical) limitation, as such, a prominent outstanding challenge.

Keywords:

• decentering
• decolonial
• epistemology
• methodology
• posthumanism
• praxis

Acknowledgements

My many thanks to Professor Phillip Payne for his expert advice and continuing encouragement to strive for more. His commitment to the development of environmental education (research) remains to be inspirational. Many thanks also to the contributing authors in this special issue for collectively building in slow dialogue.