Abstract

I will present an analysis of the unspoken role of environmental violence in EE practice, and offer suggestions as to how EE practitioners can deal with environmental violence in their classrooms and/or programming. The term ‘’violence’ has never appeared in the titles or abstracts of NAAEEC conferences over the past seven years, and virtually never appears in our published literature. My theoretical lens is based on the work of Norwegian peace scholar Johan Galtung, who contrasts direct (the outcome of an actor with intent to commit violence), structural (the result of human systems that cause violence either through intent or unintentionally) and cultural violence (the result of social legitimization and justification of direct or structural violence). Environmental educators can address all of these forms of violence through appropriate acts of environmental non-violence, anti-violence, and contra-violence (working to undo violence we all are complicit in).

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