This edited collection takes up the wild and sudden surge of new materialisms in the field of
curriculum studies. New materialisms shift away from the strong focus on discourse associated
with the linguistic or cultural turn in theory and toward recent work in the physical and
biological sciences in doing so they posit ontologies of becoming that re-configure our sense
of what a human person is and how that person relates to the more-than-human ecologies in which
it is nested. Ignited by an urgency to disrupt the dangers of anthropocentrism and systems of
domination in the work of curriculum and pedagogy this book builds upon the axiom that agency
is not a uniquely human capacity but something inherent in all matter. This collection blurs
the boundaries of human and non-human animate and inanimate to focus on webs of
interrelations. Each chapter explores these questions while attending to the ethical aesthetic
and political tasks of education-both in and out of school contexts. It is essential reading
for anyone interested in feminist queer anti-racist ecological and posthumanist theories
and practices of education.
