Books by Teresa Lloro
The [Re]Thinking Environmental Education series is part of the Peter Lang Education list. Every v... more The [Re]Thinking Environmental Education series is part of the Peter Lang Education list. Every volume is peer reviewed and meets the highest quality standards for content and production.
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Toward Critical Environmental Education (A. S. Gkiolmas & C. D. Skordoulis , Eds.), 2020
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Feminist food studies: Exploring intersectionality , 2019
Although the urban community garden literature is interdisciplinary in scope and engages scholars... more Although the urban community garden literature is interdisciplinary in scope and engages scholarship in environmental and nutrition education, community development, and research on food access, justice, and sovereignty, scant scholarship examines how community gardens or other forms of urban agriculture might foster intersectional understandings of community in urban spaces. In this chapter, I draw on student gardening vignettes from a critical food studies course I teach to conceptualize community as inclusive of human inhabitants, other animals, plants, fungi, and microbes, and the nonhuman-built environment. I frame this research project using feminist posthumanist interpretations of intersectionality and performativity and theories of socio-ecological learning. By using ethnographic data (interviews, participant observation), student service-learning autoethnographies, and other student coursework, I explicate how two of my students, as the title of this article vividly illustrates with the description of bees “[wearing] fuzzy little yellow pants,” come to view invertebrate animals they encounter in the garden as active, communicative participants in urban food production. This chapter thus specifically examines how human performances (care, empathy) and invertebrate performances (aerating soil, cycling nutrients, pollinating flowers) converge in an urban community garden to change “the very notion of what constitutes a [human] self. . . . into a holistic concept of the self—that is in turn understood as always relationally and dynamically connected to the surroundings of which the person is a constitutive part” (Neves 2009, 147).
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Animals in environmental education: Interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum and pedagogy , 2019
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Animals in Environmental Education, 2019
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Historical animal geographies , 2018
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Animals and science education: Ethics, curriculum and pedagogy , 2017
While once primarily dedicated to the entertainment of the public in Western societies, zoos, aqu... more While once primarily dedicated to the entertainment of the public in Western societies, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and similar facilities now mostly self-identify as informal science or conservation education organizations. Parks and protected areas, within which wildlife-focused tourism often occurs, also identify education as a key part of their mission. Substantial educational research literature examines teaching and learning in such spaces, but largely fails to consider the real lived experiences of animals enrolled in these processes or to interrogate the hidden curriculum that can contradict intended messaging. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at two sites, a public aquarium in southern California and a national marine park in Quebec that is a popular site for whalewatching, we demonstrate how animals are politically deployed in educational processes when interpreters at " edutainment " sites aim to teach science to the general public in the name of conservation.
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Animals in Environmental Education, 2019
In this chapter, I draw on theories of intersectionality to develop a nascent “interspecies food ... more In this chapter, I draw on theories of intersectionality to develop a nascent “interspecies food justice” approach to teaching about food systems. This approach builds on critical scholarship in education that centers the lives of animals, marginalized humans, or both, along with the environment. After this initial theoretical framing, I provide an overview of the Critical Food Studies course I teach and research, highlighting how intersectional theories guide my own pedagogy, as well as my positionality as an educator and scholar. In this section, I provide specific examples of pedagogical tools I employ. Next, I explore how interdisciplinary intersectional pedagogies might afford students the opportunity to understand injustices as intricately linked through power structures that exploit animals and some humans alike. To do this, I briefly analyze and share several pieces of empirical data from my research on the course. I conclude by drawing out the implications and tensions of t...
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Environmental Education Research, 2021
The [Re]Thinking Environmental Education series is part of the Peter Lang Education list. Every v... more The [Re]Thinking Environmental Education series is part of the Peter Lang Education list. Every volume is peer reviewed and meets the highest quality standards for content and production.
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The Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare global structural inequalities, including those invo... more Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare global structural inequalities, including those involving food. Although feminist frameworks have been applied to the study of food, we have much to learn about activism and environmental education (EE). In this article, I thus develop a nascent intersectional feminist food studies praxis for the field to animate important conversations about “new” ways of thinking and doing EE research for a post-pandemic future. To begin, I describe the places where I work in eastern Los Angeles County, California. Then, I provide a brief overview of intersectionality, highlighting key components informing my work. Drawing on two and a half years of feminist participatory research focused on the activist-scholar nexus, I elucidate an intersectional feminist food studies praxis that elevates the politics of knowledge, is attuned to the affective domain, and supports transformation. To conclude, I specifically highlight how these insights can influence EE research and practice.
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Environmental Education Research, 2019
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Journal of Urban Affairs, 2019
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Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships... more A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because caring labor has been historically undervalued in food systems and because neoliberal modes of commodification and marketization have interpellated activists, scholar-activists, and activist-scholars into new ways of self-care and caring for others. To begin, we provide a brief overview of the places where we work, including the city of Pomona, the Pomona Valley Certified Farmers Market, and the Pomona Community Farmer Alliance (PCFA), a community organization and local activist collective. We then draw on nearly three years of participatory ethnographic work in this community to explore and theorize care work in local food systems activism. Our conceptual framework, framed by feminist food studies...
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Canadian Food Studies, 2022
A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships... more A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because caring labor has been historically undervalued in food systems and because neoliberal modes of commodification and marketization have interpellated activists, scholar-activists, and activist-scholars into new ways of self-care and caring for others. To begin, we provide a brief overview of the places where we work, including the city of Pomona, the Pomona Valley Certified Farmers Market, and the Pomona Community Farmer Alliance (PCFA), a community organization and local activist collective. We then draw on nearly three years of participatory ethnographic work in this community to explore and theorize care work in local food systems activism. Our conceptual framework, framed by feminist food studies and theories of care, illuminates how PCFA members conceive of their own caring work in practice, as well as how they negotiate the complexities of caring for others and self, while being left by the state to do this work. We also explore how activists’ care practices sometimes lay bare structural inequalities and the failure of the state, while also reinforcing and challenging neoliberal ideologies embedded in volunteerism. To conclude, we discuss the gendered implications of our work for food systems research, specifically considering the complementarity of Progressive and Radical approaches to food systems transformation.
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Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare global structural inequalities, including those involving foo... more The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare global structural inequalities, including those involving food. Although feminist frameworks have been applied to the study of food, we have much to learn about activism and environmental education (EE). in this article, I thus develop a nascent intersectional feminist food studies praxis for the field to animate important conversations about "new" ways of thinking and doing EE research for a post-pandemic future. To begin, I describe the places where I work in eastern Los Angeles County, California. Then, I provide a brief overview of intersectionality, highlighting key components informing my work. Drawing on two and a half years of feminist participatory research focused on the activist-scholar nexus, I elucidate an intersectional feminist food studies praxis that elevates the politics of knowledge, is attuned to the affective domain, and supports transformation. To conclude, I specifically highlight how these insights can influence EE research and practice.
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Journal of Environmental Education , 2020
Environmental education (EE) scholars view intergenerational learning as a means to influence adu... more Environmental education (EE) scholars view intergenerational learning as a means to influence adult understandings of and relationships with the environment. Yet EE researchers have studied intergenerational learning in a limited fashion, with no emphasis on its role in higher education. The purpose of this article is to use feminist posthumanist theories to broadly explore intergenerational learning in critical food studies courses taught at the university level. We rely primarily on student coursework and post-course interviews as data sources that convey student perceptions of interactions with their families and the natural world, demonstrating
how students develop relational identities shaped by personal experience
as well as experiences in the course. To conclude, we discuss both the limitations and implications of this research for the field of EE.
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Emotion, Space and Society, 2018
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how students develop relational identities shaped by personal experience
as well as experiences in the course. To conclude, we discuss both the limitations and implications of this research for the field of EE.
how students develop relational identities shaped by personal experience
as well as experiences in the course. To conclude, we discuss both the limitations and implications of this research for the field of EE.
L'Aquarium du Pacifique est une institution 501 (c) 3 aux États-Unis, qui compte sur la vente des billets pour sa survie. Dans cet article, je montre comment son personnel et ses animaux co-participer à un projet dit «edutainment», où l'institution régit les organismes de loriquets par des techniques réglementaires conçus pour assurer aux clients une expérience satisfaisante et de devenir plus soucieux de la conservation. De cette façon, les loriquets sont politiquement déployés pour soutenir la survie financière de l'institution, et dans son projet d'éducation de conservation qui imagine les visiteurs que les consommateurs «avancées», dans la mesure où ils ont choisi leurs expériences de divertissement éducatif et leurs comportements respectueux de l'environnement. Les interactions visiteurs-loriquets résultant de promouvoir des rencontres désinfectés avec la sauvagerie, et a limiter le développement des relations homme-animal empathiques. Cependant le personnel de l'Aquarium ont développent des relations empathiques et intersubjectives avec les oiseaux.
El acuario del Pacífico es una institución 501(c) 3 en los Estados Unidos, en deuda con la venta de entradas para su supervivencia. En este artículo muestro como su personal, y sus animales participan conjuntamente en un proyecto de educación y entretenimiento, edutaiment, donde la institución administra los cuerpos de loritos arcoíris (lorikeets) a través de tecnologías de regulación elaboradas para asegurar que los invitados tengan una experiencia satisfactoria y se vuelvan más conservacionistas. De esta manera, los Loritos son desplegados políticamente para apoyar la supervivencia fiscal de la institución, y en su proyecto de educación para la conservación, el cual imagina a los visitantes como consumidores avanzados, en la medida en que eligieron su experiencia de educación y entretenimiento al igual que su comportamiento ambientalmente responsable. Las interacciones resultantes entre visitantes y los loritos promueven encuentros higienizados con lo salvaje, limitando el desarrollo de las relaciones empáticas entre humanos y animales. Sin embargo el personal desarrolla relaciones empáticas e intersubjetivas con los pájaros.