• Re‐Imagining Relationships in Education (edited book)
    with Morwenna Griffiths, Marit Honerød Hoveid, and Sharon Todd
    Wiley. 2014-10-27.
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    Curriculum Knowledge, Justice, Relations: The Schools White Paper (2010) in England
    In Morwenna Griffiths, Marit Honerød Hoveid, Sharon Todd & Christine Winter (eds.), Re‐Imagining Relationships in Education, Wiley. 2014.
    This chapter presents a brief background of curriculum knowledge in England. The idea of ‘relations’ being ‘between’ things pushes one into a ‘this’ and ‘that’ (and maybe ‘and the other’) thinking space. In Jacques Derrida's famous words: ‘Deconstruction is justice’. The responsibility of deconstruction is to disrupt those taken‐for‐granted meanings of curriculum discourses by opening them up and releasing them from their metaphysical assumptions to see what or who may have been overlooked, marg…Read more
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    A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 2050
    with Danielle Celermajer, David Schlosberg, and Dinesh Wadiwel
    Political Theory 51 (1): 39-53. 2023.
    This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate those claims in their future contexts? How will the…Read more
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    Editorial
    Environmental Values 31 (6): 629-635. 2022.
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    Fables for the Anthropocene: Illuminating Other Stories for Being Human in an Age of Planetary Turmoil
    with Danielle Celermajer
    Environmental Philosophy 19 (2): 163-190. 2022.
    In A Climate of History Dipesh Chakrabarty locates Kant’s speculative reading of Genesis as “the Enduring Fable” furnishing the background for human domination and earthly destruction. Writing from the fable’s “ruins,” Chakrabarty urges the elaboration of new fables that provide the background ethics and meanings required to recast relations between humans and the natural world. Responding to Chakrabarty’s challenge, we outline two “fables” based first in the oft ignored Genesis 2, and second, i…Read more
  • This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ in a manner that privileges indigenous philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for solving global environmental problems. Divided into three parts, the book begins by examining the framing of Western liberal environmental, intergenerational and indigenous justice theory and reviews decolonial theory. Using contemporary case studies drawn from the courts, film, biography, and protests actions, the second section explores contempora…Read more
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    Decolonising Dignity for Inclusive Democracy
    Environmental Values 28 (1): 9-30. 2019.
    The idea of dignity is often taken to be a foundation for principles of justice and democracy. In the West it has numerous formulations and conceptualisations. Within the capabilities approach to justice theorists have expanded the concept of dignity to encompass animals and ecological communities. In this article I rework the idea of dignity to include the Māori philosophical concepts of Mauri, tapu and mana – something I argue is necessary if the capabilities approach is to decolonise in the A…Read more