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Making the Other Through Good Intentions

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The Eco-Certified Child

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This chapter is an introduction to the book, describing the aim, empirical data and theoretical framework. Since the book seeks to problematize the incontestability of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and how to be an environmentally friendly student (the eco-certified child), it departs from Foucault’s thoughts on how discourses organize how it is possible to live in a certain context and how “kinds of” desirable and undesirable people are made inside these discourses. Ultimately the book aims to shed light on what is “into the bargain” with good intentions to create a sustainable society; how the idea of a common future in fact makes distinctions between social classes, races, and nationalities. The chapter outlines how these analyses are done from theories deconstructing normality and the Other.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a history of EE, ESD , and ESE see e.g. Gough (2006), Palmer (1998).

  2. 2.

    Swedish title: “Det KRAV-märkta barnet: Om subjektskonstruktioner i lärande för hållbar utveckling.” The research project was financed by the Swedish Research Council 2012–2015, reg. no. 2011-5907. PI was Malin Ideland, co-researchers were Per Hillbur and Claes Malmberg.

  3. 3.

    There is criticism against the pluralistic approach, precisely because the issue of environmental degradation and the problems of other species are excluded from the discussion when individual opinion, rather than the effect, is important (Kopnina , 2012; Kopnina & Cherniak, 2016).

  4. 4.

    There is a body of literature discussing green governmentality for the environmental area. I will not go into that, but may mention, e.g. Lloro-Bidart (2017), Luke (1999), Soneryd and Uggla (2015).

  5. 5.

    Hursh et al. (2015) have conducted a broad (although, as they point out, too short) survey and analysis of neoliberalism in society and in environmental education. McKenzie, Bieler, and McNeil (2015) likewise provide an overview of the neoliberal turn in ESE .

  6. 6.

    See Kungliga Skolöverstyrelsen (1962), Skolöverstyrelsen (1969, 1980), Skolverket (1994, 2011).

  7. 7.

    Read more about the Swedish policy documents in Hillbur et al. (2016).

  8. 8.

    Their names are however to be found in the reference list.

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Ideland, M. (2019). Making the Other Through Good Intentions. In: The Eco-Certified Child. Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00199-5_1

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