Edinburgh University Press Intersections of Environmental and Language Justice: Exploring Pedagogy, Art and Activism

Responds to the urgent need to confront the ongoing environmental crisis through interdisciplinary insights Examines the intersections of language and environmental justice, highlighting not only where these domains already converge but also where such connections are urgently needed Brings together an international range of contributors from both the so-called Global South and Global North, representing diverse contexts and places including land and water, villages and classrooms, universities and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs, community spaces, and many more Incorporates a wide variety of genres—artistic, conceptual, reflective, research-based, and pedagogical—to acknowledge the importance of multimodal meaning-making and ensure the book is accessible to a broad and diverse readership Demonstrates pathways for policy and pedagogical transformation by offering models for researching and representing necessary changes in educational policy, pedagogy, and academic structures and genres Bringing together an international group of contributors from India, Turkey, Chile, the USA, the UK, Finland and the Netherlands, the book showcases critical, intersectional perspectives that shed light on language as an important lens for understanding and transforming our ecological realities. Through pedagogical, political, artistic and activist approaches, the contributors show that advancing environmental justice and advocating for language justice (can) go hand in hand. The book explores how environmental and language justice intersect in a variety of different contexts such as language classrooms, social activism, arts, policymaking and community- based research. Featuring a variety of genres, including artistic, conceptual, reflective, empirical and pedagogical pieces, the chapters analyse how language and environmental learning co-occur, how language rights and environmental literacy are intertwined and how activism can be strengthened through attention to both language and environmental issues.