Practising Immanence: Living with Theory and Environmental Education

Practising Immanence: Living with Theory and Environmental Education explores how theory and environmental education can be integrated, creating a space where methodology becomes pedagogy and each is already always environmental. It challenges conventional research practices and offers a novel methodological approach using haecceities as sites of variation. This book is of interest to those inspired to explore environmental problems and inquiry with each other and to those drawn to creative-relational, narrative, embodied, and post-qualitative approaches to research.

Format: Hardback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 28 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Practising Immanence: Living with Theory and Environmental Education is a groundbreaking work that makes significant contributions to both qualitative inquiry and environmental education. By delving into the intricate interplay between these two ideas, it creates a space where methodology becomes pedagogy, and where each is already inherently environmental, inseparable from life.

Clarkes' approach is both energizing and innovative, challenging conventional research practices and offering alternative ways of inquiry. Drawing on new materialisms, affect theory, and the practical philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the book details the author's PhD journey, merging stories and theory (and stories of theory) in the production of eight "haecceities." These haecceities serve as sites of variation on the events of the book, exploring the self as unstable and posthuman, the environment as everything (immanent) rather than a romantic or green version of nature, and the ethical tensions that these shifts create for education, inquiry, and life in the Anthropocene.

Practising Immanence brings theory to life through a diffractively critical style and a unique approach to environmental pedagogic practice. This radical and vitalizing book appeals to those who are inspired to explore environmental problems and inquiry together, as well as those drawn to creative-relational, narrative, embodied, and post-qualitative approaches to research. By intertwining these two fields, Practising Immanence offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between theory and practice, paving the way for new understandings and approaches to environmental education and inquiry.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032561905