Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Locally Grown

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
The Eco-Certified Child

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment ((PSEE))

  • 486 Accesses

Abstract

The chapter problematizes how sustainability engagement is embedded in a racial, colonial and nationalistic discourses, positioning different kinds of humans, problems and possibilities in different parts of the world; an enlightened, organized We in the global north and a miserable, corrupt, under-developed Them in the global south. In the Swedish discourse the enlightened, helping, environmental hero is always represented by a white person, while those who are in need of help are represented by a person of color—positioned in Asia or Africa. The chapter discusses how environmental engagement has become culturally attached to whiteness and a Western lifestyle. The work for a common future has, ironically, become an excluding practice dividing the world in Us and Them.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    Elaborated analyses of ESE in relation to racism and nationalism can be found in Ideland and Malmberg (2014), Ideland and Tröhler (2015).

  2. 2.

    I have previously described and analyzed the export of education by the WWF in the book chapter “Calling for Sustainability: WWF’s Global Agenda and Educating Swedish Exceptionalism ” (Ideland & Tröhler, 2015).

References

  • Ahmed, S. (2004). Affective economies. Social Text, 22(2), 117–139.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ahmed, S. (2007). The language of diversity. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30(2), 235–256.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ahmed, S. (2010). The promise of happiness. Durham: Duke University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ahmed, S. (2012). On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Brooklyn: Verso Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bonilla-Silva, E. (2003). ‘New racism,’ color-blind racism, and the future of Whiteness in America. In A.W. Doane & E. Bonilla-Silva, (Eds.), White out: The continuing significance of racism (pp. 271–284). New York and London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bowden, R. (2005). Hållbar utveckling: Hotet mot miljön. Stockholm: Liber.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bradley, K. (2009). Just environments: Politicising sustainable urban development. Stockholm: KTH.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brown, W. (2006). Regulating aversion: Tolerance in the age of identity and empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Castro-Gómez, S. (2002). The social sciences, epistemic violence, and the problem of the “invention of the other”. Nepantla: Views from South, 3(2), 269–285.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dahlstedt, M. (2010). Hårda nypor för ett mjukt samhälle? Om medialisering och rasifiering i utspelspolitikens Sverige. Sociologisk Forskning, 47(3), 35–56.

    Google Scholar 

  • Douglas, M. (1966/2002). Purity and danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo. London: Taylor & Francis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, M. (1980). Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings 1972–1977 (C. Gordon, Ed.). Harlow: Harvester Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gough, N. (2002). Thinking/acting locally/globally: Western science and environmental education in a global knowledge economy. International Journal of Science Education, 24(11), 1217–1237.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hall, S. (1992). The west and the rest: Discourse and power. In S. Hall & B. Geiben (Eds.), Formations of modernity (pp. 15–30). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Håll Sverige Rent. (2011). Blixtpatrullens äventyr. Author: L. Adelsköld.

    Google Scholar 

  • Haraway, D. J. (2004). The Haraway reader. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hobson, J. M. (2004). The Eastern origins of Western civilisation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hübinette, T. (2014). Racial stereotypes and Swedish antiracism: A Swedish crisis of multiculturalism? In L. Jensen & K. Loftsdóttir (Eds.), Crisis in the Nordic nations and beyond: At the intersection of environment, finance and multiculturalism (pp. 69–85). Farnham: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hübinette, T., & Lundström, C. (2011). Sweden after the recent election: The double-binding power of Swedish whiteness through the mourning of the loss of ‘old Sweden’ and the passing of ‘good Sweden’. NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 19(1), 42–52.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ideland, M. (in press). Science, Coloniality, and “the Great Rationality Divide”. How Practices, Places, and Persons Are Culturally Attached to One Another in Science Education. Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-018-0006-8.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ideland, M., & Malmberg, C. (2014). Our common world belongs to ‘Us’: Constructions of otherness in education for sustainable development. Critical Studies in Education, 55(3), 369–386.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ideland, M., & Tröhler, D. (2015). Calling for sustainability: WWF’s global agenda and educating Swedish exceptionalism. In D. Tröhler & T. Lenz (Eds.), Trajectories in the development of modern school systems: Between the national and the global (pp. 199–212). Abingdon and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ladson-Billings, G. (1998). Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 11(1), 7–24.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mannion, G., Biesta, G., Priestley, M., & Ross, H. (2011). The global dimension in education and education for global citizenship: Genealogy and critique. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 9(3–4), 443–456.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Matias, C. E., & Zembylas, M. (2014). ‘When saying you care is not really caring’: Emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher education. Critical Studies in Education, 55(3), 319–337.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McClintock, A. (1995). Imperial leather: Race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest. New York, NY: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • McKenzie, M. (2012). Education for y’all: Global neoliberalism and the case for a politics of scale in sustainability education policy. Policy Futures in Education, 10(2), 165–177.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nordvall, H., & Dahlstedt, M. (2009). Folkbildning i (av)koloniseringens skugga: Demokrati, nationella mytologier och solidaritetens paradoxer. Utbildning och Demokrati, 18(3), 29–47.

    Google Scholar 

  • Östman, L., Svanberg, S., & Aaro-Östman, E. (2013). From vision to lesson: Education for sustainable development in practice. Stockholm, Sweden: WWF.

    Google Scholar 

  • Popkewitz, T. S. (2012). Cosmopolitanism and the age of school reform: Science, education, and making society by making the child. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Pred, A. (2000). Even in Sweden: Racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pripp, O., & Öhlander, M. (2012). Att uppfatta rasism i Sverige. Om glassreklam och normstrider. In T. Hübinette, H. Hörnfeldt, F. Farahani, & R. L. Rosales (Eds.), Om ras och vithet i det samtida Sverige. Tumba: Mångkulturellt centrum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Puwar, N. (2004). Space invaders, race, gender and bodies out of place. New York: Berg.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sahlberg, P. (2011). The fourth way of Finland. Journal of Educational Change, 12(2), 173–185.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Said, E. (1978). Orientalism: Western representations of the Orient. New York: Pantheon.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schwarzenbach, A. (2011). Saving the world’s wildlife: WWF—The first 50 years. London, UK: Profile.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sellar, S. (2015). A feel for numbers: Affect, data and education policy. Critical Studies in Education, 56(1), 131–146.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Seth, S. (2009). Putting knowledge in its place: Science, colonialism, and the postcolonial. Postcolonial Studies, 12(4), 373–388.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • SO.S Geografi. (2012). Stockholm: Liber. Authors: L. Lindberg & S. Mårtensson.

    Google Scholar 

  • SO.S Samhälle. (2012). Stockholm: Liber. Authors: U. Andersson, P. Ewert, & U. Hedengren.

    Google Scholar 

  • Spivak, G. C. (1988). Can the subaltern speak? In C. Nelson & L. Grossberg (Eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (pp. 271–313). Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Education.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Tröhler, D. (2009). Harmonizing the educational globe: World polity, cultural features, and the challenges to educational research. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 29(1), 7–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Villenas, S. A., & Angeles, S. L. (2013). Race talk and school equity in local print media: The discursive flexibility of whiteness and the promise of race-conscious talk. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34(4), 510–530.

    Google Scholar 

  • Weber, M. (2009). From Max Weber: Essays in sociology. Abingdon: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • WWF. (2010). Skola på hållbar väg – skolors arbete inom hållbar utveckling. Solna: WWF.

    Google Scholar 

  • WWF. (2014). A collection of articles, ideas and links for lesson planning? Retrieved May 5, 2014, from http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/teacher_resources/.

  • Ygeman, A., & Schönström, A. (2015). Ingenting är mer osvenskt än att se ner på en annan människa på grund av dennes religion eller hudfärg. Sydsvenskan, 3(6), 2015.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Education and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

    Malin Ideland

Authors
  1. Malin Ideland
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Ideland, M. (2019). Locally Grown. In: The Eco-Certified Child. Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00199-5_4

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00199-5_4

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Pivot, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-00198-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-00199-5

  • eBook Packages: EducationEducation (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation