Traci Warkentin
Assistant Lecturer
Environmental Studies
York University
United States of America
Biography
My interdisciplinary work examines the intersections of experiential learning, place/context, environmental ethics, and human-animal relationships. Starting from a feminist epistemological standpoint that understands environmental education as necessarily intertwined with social justice, my teaching practice and pedagogical research bring together content with form by investigating the influence of material and social contexts on how and what people learn about the environment and animals, as well as by developing methods for ethical ways of making knowledge. I am drawn to FES for its commitment to creative and active scholarship, and its encouragement of progressive modes of teaching and learning, which strive to engage with the world beyond the academy to create positive change.
Research Interest
Environmental education Feminist environmental ethics and philosophy Animal studies Novel urban ecologies Embodied epistemologies and ontologies
Publications
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Warkentin, T. (2011). Cultivating Urban Naturalists: Teaching Experiential, Place-based Education through Nature Journaling in Central Park. Journal of Geography 110(6), 227-238.
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Warkentin, T. (2012). Must every animal studies scholar be vegan? Special Issue: Animal Others, Invited Symposium: Feminists Encountering Animals. Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 27(3), 499-504.