ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we share a discussion with Dr. Fikile Nxumalo about her book, Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education, which provides a (re)storying of often invisiblized anti-Blackness and settler colonial legacies embedded in environmental education with young children. While engaging deeply with Dr. Nxumalo's text, as a collective, we developed several questions to ask her during a virtual meetup. These include learning more about the relationship between Dr. Nxumalo's work and feminist transdisciplinarity, ways in which her research has disrupted the white western cannon of early childhood and environmental education, and how the theories and methodologies she draws upon help her to negotiate the messiness of inquiry. The chapter concludes with asking Dr. Nxumalo to offer insights she might have for graduate students and others who may be new to engaging with feminist transdisciplinarity.
