Greetings. I hope you will excuse the self-promotion and cross-posting.
I wanted to let those of you who are involved in sustainability-related
teaching know that my book /Occupy Education: Living and Learning
Sustainability/ (2012, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)
will be released on Sept. 10. It is now available for pre-order at a
slightly reduced price
(http://www.amazon.com/Occupy-Education-Learning-Sustainability-Studies/dp/1433119668/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346604911&sr=1-1&keywords=occupy+education+living+and+learning+sustainability).
I hope some of you will find my book useful in some way in your lives
and work.
Below, please find a brief description and some excellent endorsements.
If you do pick up my book, please be sure to read the acknowledgements
and the note on the cover art as there are many people whom I have to
thank for helping me to complete this work.
Best regards,
Tina Evans
Associate Professor, Sustainability Studies
Colorado Mountain College
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/Occupy Education/ is motivated by the sustainability crisis and
energized by the drive for social justice that inspired the Occupy
movement. Situated within the struggle for sustainability taking place
amid looming resource shortages, climate change, economic instability,
and ecological breakdown, the book is a timely contribution to community
education and action. It opens a whole realm of integrated theory to
educators and sustainability activists---and demonstrates how that
theory can be moved into practice. /Occupy Education/ is an excellent
text for courses in sustainability studies, social philosophy,
globalization, social justice, food system praxis, sustainability
education, political economy, and environmental studies.
"Our minds, and education which shapes our minds, have been colonised
with false categories of separation, fragmentation, competition,
scarcity, and greed. We have to free our minds in order to free life on
earth and all people from the threat of destruction and extinction.
/Occupy Education/ is an important book for our finding our way to an
inclusive freedom, to Earth Democracy."
---/Vandana Shiva, founding member of the Navdanya project; author of
/Earth Democracy/and other books;
winner of the Right Livelihood Award/
"With the social and environmental fabric of our world wearing down, and
the time in which to act rapidly dwindling, along comes a book that
offers us a sense of grounded hope and the tools to educate ourselves
for a sustainable future. In the timeless tradition of radically engaged
scholarship, Tina Lynn Evans not only illuminates the nature of the
crises in our midst, but more importantly casts our collective gaze
toward the faint beacon of light that is emerging on the horizon of
human resiliency and innovation."
---/Randall Amster, Graduate Chair of Humanities,
Prescott College/
"This book is a challenge to the normative practice of higher education,
which is abstract and has increasingly taught people not to be
self-reliant in community, but to be individuals dependent on
organisations and people bigger and more powerful than themselves.
/Occupy Education/ is a valuable contribution to a genuinely post-modern
and ecological educational praxis, grounded in the experiences and
places of real people striving for agency. It draws on a depth and
breadth of scholarship in critical theory, economics for sustainability
and resilience, deep ecology and ecopsychology, and provides a resource
for essential new conversations and educational practices."
---/Anne B. Ryan, Lecturer in Adult and Community Education, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth; Author of /Enough is Plenty: Public and
Private Policies for the 21st Century/and /Feminist Ways of Knowing:
Towards Theorising the Person for Radical Adult Education
"Providing essential tools for the struggle for a world beyond
domination, /Occupy Education/ is a must-read for all educators and
activists interested in a truly liberatory ecological and democratic
praxis."
---/Noah De Lissovoy, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction,
University of Texas at Austin; Author of /Power, Crisis, and Education
for Liberation: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy
"Faced with exploitative and oppressive structures of political and
economic power, it is easy to feel as educators, activists, and citizens
that change and the simultaneous pursuit of ecological and social
justice are beyond our reach. In /Occupy Education/ Tina Lynn Evans
provides positive and grounded suggestions about the ways in which
education and social learning can enhance community resilience, enable
localization, and promote sustainability, and thereby help to reverse
the collision course the global economy has set us on. It deserves to be
widely read by educators and activists alike."
--/Peter Newell, Professor, University of Sussex; Author of
/Globalization and the Environment
