In Conversation with Steven Khan: Sensible and Sense-able Qualitative Literacies for Multi-species Flourishing

In this conversation with Steven Khan, he illuminates his recent trajectory toward multi-species flourishing with mathematics education. Incisively including colonial plantation logics into contemporary conversations of the Anthropocene in STEM education, Khan sketches out a figuration of mathematics education that continues to uphold, albeit differently, a political economy rooted in consumption, overwork, uncompensated labor, scarcity, violence, and erasure. In response, and recognizing that no human flourishing occurs without the flourishing of other-than-human kin, Khan offers multi-species flourishing. To animate multi-species flourishing, Khan offers examples such as critical examinations of sonic landscapes as novel means of attuning otherwise, as well as how it might become an actionable practice in spaces such as mathematics teacher education. Khan concludes this conversation by highlighting the importance of creating collectives in which differences are assets rather than liabilities and are treated as such.