Jessie A. Bustillos Morales,UCL Institute of Education, UK
I work at the Institute of Education which is University College London's Faculty of Education. I am an educator, researcher and writer who has worked in academia for over thirteen years across several institutions in the UK. With an interdisciplinary background including sociology, philosophy and education, I am interested in exploring educational and social inequalities through innovative theoretical frameworks and creative methodologies relevant to everyday educational practice, such as, new materialist and posthuman pedagogies. My scholarship operates in the intersections of youth studies, methodology, philosophy and critical theory/pedagogy. I have published in various educational journals and have co-authored and co-edited several books published by Routledge, including Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities in Uncertain Times (2024) and Towards Posthumanism in Education Theoretical Entanglements and Pedagogical Mappings (2024).
Maureen Cullen, Mount Royal University, Canada
I am a registered early childhood educator and an assistant professor of Child Studies. My research is grounded in Feminist New Materialist frameworks and Common Worlds pedagogies. I critically engage with the dominant discourses of scientism, modernism, and developmentalism in early childhood education, aiming to disrupt these paradigms by fostering more-than-human kinships and multispecies pedagogies. My dissertation explores the integration of pedagogical documentation, more-than-human kinships, and speculative storytelling in curriculum-making processes. Through my research, I aim to cultivate inclusive and equitable learning environments, offering hope for creative responses to global challenges such as climate change and promoting mutual flourishing for all entities, human and more-than-human.
Issei Yamamoto
I am an associate professor at Shiga University, former preschool teacher at Early Childhood Art Education Research Center at Kyoto University of the Arts. My research focuses on a pedagogy based on the animistic imagination of early childhood, which I call “co-living imagination”. I am also interested in the possibility of describing education using the metaphor of “fermentation”.
Rocío Fatyass, Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina
Soy Licenciada en Sociología y Doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad Nacional de Villa María. Además, soy investigadora del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Mi línea de estudio se relaciona con las experiencias infantiles, el cuidado y la investigación colaborativa con niñas y niños. Dirijo el proyecto Niñas y Niños Investigadores: experiencias de conocimiento desde un enfoque de género, protagónico y multiespecie y coordino el Programa Estudios Sociales en Infancias, Juventudes y Desigualdades.
Delia Byrnes, Allegheny College, USA
I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, where I teach courses on environmental justice and culture, power, and environment. I hold a PhD in English and my research focuses on the relationship between energy regimes and environmental justice in contemporary US literature and culture.
Affrica Taylor, Austalia
These days I situate myself within the feminist environmental humanities. But my work has always been interdisciplinary - straddling fields of anti-colonialist, feminist and queer theory, cultural and children’s geographies and environmental education. I’m focused on experimenting with creative, collective/more-than-human research practices that are geared towards redressing the entangled social and environmental legacies of colonisation and capitalist excess and promoting reconnection, recouperation and regeneration.
Kathryn Riley, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan. My research is focused on posthumanist and ‘new’ materialist scholarship within an anticolonial praxis in education to promote a sense of belonging with Country/Land/Place.