Transformative Education for Regeneration and Wellbeing: A Critical Systemic Approach to Support Multispecies Relationships and Pathways to Sustainable Environments

Janet McIntyre-Mills (DLitt et Phil, Sociology) is Professor Extraordinarius at University of South Africa, ranked by the National Research Foundation in South Africa and Visiting Research Fellow at the Yunus Social Business Centre within the University of Adelaide Business School since Dec 2019 and holds affiliation with Universitas Padjadjaran where she is affiliated with the Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research. She has been nominated ‘Sociologist of the Month’ in August 2019 by the Current Sociology Journal in recognition of her paper: ‘Recognising our hybridity and Connectedness’. Her research focuses on systemic representation, accountability and re-generation applied to social and environmental justice concerns and includes both edited and sole authored volumes such as: Planetary Passport: Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation and Systemic Ethics and non-anthropocentric Stewardship, Springer, New York. Recently, she has published From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions, Springer (2021).

Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes (PhD Sociology) is an International Gender Consultant and a Principal Research Fellow in the Social Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University. She is also an Associate of the Gender Consortium at Flinders University and Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. She engages with some of the major issues facing women globally and specialises in gender specific research in non-western countries in the field of development and international politics, dealing with issues such as gender equality, human rights, gender-based violence, sustainable development, terrorism and conflict. She wrote a seminal work on Central Asian women entitled Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition which was published by Zed Books and is now in its 12th edition. She is presently working on a book about women resistance fighters in the American War in Vietnam. Recently, she has published From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions, Springer (2021).