Chapter 11: Becoming Environmental Writers! The Futures of Reshaping Knowledge and Learning in Ecosocial and Post-Anthropocentric Social Work

In this chapter I invite social work students and practitioners to make use of environmental writing as a critical and creative methodological practice to include more-than-human perspectives into knowledge and learning in social work. Inspired by feminist and Indigenous and postcolonial writing, I use life writing genres such as diary notes, photography, and poetry to rethink and promote renewed embodied and situated practices for the futures of writing with social work. The chapter includes illustrations and scenes thematically related to childhood memories from a farm, environmental exhaustion as an alternative to social problems in times when both human and non-human life is threatened, and water as a pathway for social justice. Each section includes brief guidelines for how to make use of one or several of the genres to conduct environmental writing. The implications of the chapter are to promote environmental writing in ecosocial and post-anthropocentric social work.