Facing the anthropocene: Comparative education as sympoiesis

It is usually at the edges where the great tectonic plates of theory meet and shift that we find the most dramatic developments and upheavals. When four tectonic plates of liberation theory—those concerned with the oppressions of gender, race, class, and nature—finally come together, the resulting tremors could shake the conceptual structures of oppression to their foundations. (Plumwood 1993, 1).