D A G Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 56108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D A G Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | D A G |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE D A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4330-0818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Collaborative Writing as Syncopated Inquiry
Power is always at play as wor(l)ds make themselves: Mutterings mattering in a political ontology. Here, desire pulls-pushes us as experimentation in pluriversal worlds: where wor(l)ds constitute each other, clash, combine, and morph. We, as people yet to come, find ourselves at the edge of possible wor(l)ds. We play with agency, (onto)politics, colonialisms – awfully serious stuff – but also humour. We do this in the context of social↔environmen…
Haecceity Altercation
I write into the haecceity of recent events in and around my teaching in environmental education to explore the concept of thisness as pedagogy
A Political Ecology of Ecologies
In this short paper I discuss a day spent with a group of students in Glen Almond, Perthshire, in 2018. As I write this now, in 2022, I have the opportunity to situate my present thinking in the story and to think with the idea of a political ecology of ecologies, derived from an immanent ethics. I speculate that competing ecologies are themselves ecological as they perform materially in the world, and that creative research of the everyday enact…
The wisp of an outline ≈ Storying ontology as environmental inquiry↔education
They thought they felt something , perhaps. The wisp of an outline not distinct enough to trace. Good. They circled it, at times, and at other times found themselves within. As they walked (a sort of walking. Figurative but real. Digital, but here. Over months of events), it curled open and headed in several directions. Foldings in the backcloth that furrowed them along until, as they walked and talked, they felt that perhaps a territory was beco…
Intimacy as Inquiry
This article performs the becoming intimacy of a reading (and, later, writing) group who met once a month for 2 years to discuss Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Through this collaborative piece, we explore the question of intimacy as both a form of activism and a mode of inquiry. We ask, 'Where is activism as we subvert the hierarchy of academia by meeting as an assemblage of differing perspectives and positions in the university?' Fu…
Tensions, knots, and lines of flight
In this introduction to a special issue of Environmental Education Research on New Materialisms and Environmental Education, we begin with a brief overview to this publishing project and to scholarship on new materialisms and environmental education. Against this backdrop, we then discuss various themes of significance arising from the broader tumult of thought that occurs in the 17 papers that bring these areas into conversation. In brief, paper…
Particular Resonances
I want to start with talking a little about resonances. To resonate means to meet. To vibrate with something in some way. Jonathan’s book is full of resonances. It is crafted of them. Resonances between disciplines; therapy, stand-up, writing. Resonances between characters in these worlds. Resonances between knowing, ethics, and the real. Resonances between affective states of personing– which isn’t quite the same as being human. And resonances b…
Nature matters
As a keystone species the concept ‘nature’ plays a vital role in shaping our world. In this article, we think with the material turn about the concept nature due to its significant performativity in its role within environmental education and research. How nature is conceived is played out on a massive scale as matter itself is morphed through conceptual processes. Therefore, we focus on the matter(ing) of conceptual abstraction, the physical eff…
Educating Beyond the Cultural and the Natural
Place in research. Theory, methodology, and methods
As a white, middle class male from the UK I am perhaps not best placed to review this book. Or, maybe I am. Perhaps, as an early career researcher I am exactly the kind of audience that should be e
From places to paths
The purpose of this paper is to explore what thinking with a philosophy of 'becoming' might produce in terms of conceptualising Learning for Sustainability (LfS), a recent development in Scottish educational policy. The paper posits that animism and the immanent materiality of a philosophy of becoming have important ramifications for contemporary approaches to sustainability education. 'Becoming' is described and its relationship to prevailing 's…
A Walk in the Park
This article considers practice for environmental education from the perspective of the material turn by taking the reader along on an outdoor learning session in a park. We present a fictional walk where we encounter plants, trees, wasp-orchids, stones, walking sticks, plastic bags, people, weather, and kites, each of which has a story to tell that demonstrates ontological immanence and the material process of being alive. These stories help sug…
Place in research. Theory, methodology, and methods
As a white, middle class male from the UK I am perhaps not best placed to review this book. Or, maybe I am. Perhaps, as an early career researcher I am exactly the kind of audience that should be e
From places to paths
The purpose of this paper is to explore what thinking with a philosophy of 'becoming' might produce in terms of conceptualising Learning for Sustainability (LfS), a recent development in Scottish educational policy. The paper posits that animism and the immanent materiality of a philosophy of becoming have important ramifications for contemporary approaches to sustainability education. 'Becoming' is described and its relationship to prevailing 's…
A Walk in the Park
This article considers practice for environmental education from the perspective of the material turn by taking the reader along on an outdoor learning session in a park. We present a fictional walk where we encounter plants, trees, wasp-orchids, stones, walking sticks, plastic bags, people, weather, and kites, each of which has a story to tell that demonstrates ontological immanence and the material process of being alive. These stories help sug…
Nature matters
As a keystone species the concept ‘nature’ plays a vital role in shaping our world. In this article, we think with the material turn about the concept nature due to its significant performativity in its role within environmental education and research. How nature is conceived is played out on a massive scale as matter itself is morphed through conceptual processes. Therefore, we focus on the matter(ing) of conceptual abstraction, the physical eff…
The wisp of an outline ≈ Storying ontology as environmental inquiry↔education
They thought they felt something , perhaps. The wisp of an outline not distinct enough to trace. Good. They circled it, at times, and at other times found themselves within. As they walked (a sort of walking. Figurative but real. Digital, but here. Over months of events), it curled open and headed in several directions. Foldings in the backcloth that furrowed them along until, as they walked and talked, they felt that perhaps a territory was beco…
Tensions, knots, and lines of flight
In this introduction to a special issue of Environmental Education Research on New Materialisms and Environmental Education, we begin with a brief overview to this publishing project and to scholarship on new materialisms and environmental education. Against this backdrop, we then discuss various themes of significance arising from the broader tumult of thought that occurs in the 17 papers that bring these areas into conversation. In brief, paper…
From places to paths
The purpose of this paper is to explore what thinking with a philosophy of 'becoming' might produce in terms of conceptualising Learning for Sustainability (LfS), a recent development in Scottish educational policy. The paper posits that animism and the immanent materiality of a philosophy of becoming have important ramifications for contemporary approaches to sustainability education. 'Becoming' is described and its relationship to prevailing 's…
A Walk in the Park
This article considers practice for environmental education from the perspective of the material turn by taking the reader along on an outdoor learning session in a park. We present a fictional walk where we encounter plants, trees, wasp-orchids, stones, walking sticks, plastic bags, people, weather, and kites, each of which has a story to tell that demonstrates ontological immanence and the material process of being alive. These stories help sug…
Place in research. Theory, methodology, and methods
As a white, middle class male from the UK I am perhaps not best placed to review this book. Or, maybe I am. Perhaps, as an early career researcher I am exactly the kind of audience that should be e
Educating Beyond the Cultural and the Natural
Nature matters
As a keystone species the concept ‘nature’ plays a vital role in shaping our world. In this article, we think with the material turn about the concept nature due to its significant performativity in its role within environmental education and research. How nature is conceived is played out on a massive scale as matter itself is morphed through conceptual processes. Therefore, we focus on the matter(ing) of conceptual abstraction, the physical eff…
Particular Resonances
I want to start with talking a little about resonances. To resonate means to meet. To vibrate with something in some way. Jonathan’s book is full of resonances. It is crafted of them. Resonances between disciplines; therapy, stand-up, writing. Resonances between characters in these worlds. Resonances between knowing, ethics, and the real. Resonances between affective states of personing– which isn’t quite the same as being human. And resonances b…
Tensions, knots, and lines of flight
In this introduction to a special issue of Environmental Education Research on New Materialisms and Environmental Education, we begin with a brief overview to this publishing project and to scholarship on new materialisms and environmental education. Against this backdrop, we then discuss various themes of significance arising from the broader tumult of thought that occurs in the 17 papers that bring these areas into conversation. In brief, paper…
The wisp of an outline ≈ Storying ontology as environmental inquiry↔education
They thought they felt something , perhaps. The wisp of an outline not distinct enough to trace. Good. They circled it, at times, and at other times found themselves within. As they walked (a sort of walking. Figurative but real. Digital, but here. Over months of events), it curled open and headed in several directions. Foldings in the backcloth that furrowed them along until, as they walked and talked, they felt that perhaps a territory was beco…
Intimacy as Inquiry
This article performs the becoming intimacy of a reading (and, later, writing) group who met once a month for 2 years to discuss Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Through this collaborative piece, we explore the question of intimacy as both a form of activism and a mode of inquiry. We ask, 'Where is activism as we subvert the hierarchy of academia by meeting as an assemblage of differing perspectives and positions in the university?' Fu…
A Political Ecology of Ecologies
In this short paper I discuss a day spent with a group of students in Glen Almond, Perthshire, in 2018. As I write this now, in 2022, I have the opportunity to situate my present thinking in the story and to think with the idea of a political ecology of ecologies, derived from an immanent ethics. I speculate that competing ecologies are themselves ecological as they perform materially in the world, and that creative research of the everyday enact…
Haecceity Altercation
I write into the haecceity of recent events in and around my teaching in environmental education to explore the concept of thisness as pedagogy
Collaborative Writing as Syncopated Inquiry
Power is always at play as wor(l)ds make themselves: Mutterings mattering in a political ontology. Here, desire pulls-pushes us as experimentation in pluriversal worlds: where wor(l)ds constitute each other, clash, combine, and morph. We, as people yet to come, find ourselves at the edge of possible wor(l)ds. We play with agency, (onto)politics, colonialisms – awfully serious stuff – but also humour. We do this in the context of social↔environmen…
Sociology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Environmental education (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)