The Front Edge of an Advancing Wave-Crest: Creative Ecologies and Designing Sustainable Futures

Abstract

This editorial introduces the 15 articles in this special issue entitled “Creative Ecologies: Designing Sustainable Futures” and contextualizes them against a rapidly expanding field of climate and ecological studies, creative and affect theoretics, and a burgeoning array of creative relational methods and methodologies extending 21st century qualitative inquiry. The collection calls for a deepening of ethical, political, and eco-collaborative commitments to the work of global research that goes beyond neoliberal discourses of innovation, impact, and human exceptionalism and argues that only in this way will the vital work of academic activism and advocacy remain relevant, revolutionary, and sustainable.