Pedagogies of the extractive zone

Recognizing the importance of higher education classrooms for shaping future activists, community organizers, engineers, city planners, politicians, and tech entrepreneurs, this round table builds on the theme of counter-extractivist futures with a focus on pedagogy, curricula, and higher education. At this session we will ask five pedagogues with experience teaching topics on or related to energy, extraction, and religion to reflect on the implications of a turn toward critical engagement with religion, energy and extraction in classrooms and university settings broadly. In particular, they will discuss how the insights and theories from this seminar and this transdisciplinary array of fields should be incorporated into religious studies and theology courses; how a refusal of extractivism should change our methods of teaching and mentoring; and how attention to the nexus of energy, extraction, and religion might facilitate broader efforts to rethink and reimagine higher education.