Countering erasures, attuning to silences, and broadening horizons: applauding and augmenting Annette Gough’s contributions to environmental education scholarship

This editorial introduces the Special Issue devoted to a discussion of Annette Gough's (Citation2024) book, Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives. The Selected Works of Annette Gough. The issue consists of eight response papers alongside two papers by Annette – one a summary of the book that offers a career retrospective, the other her reflection on the responses. In this editorial, I summarize these contributions and pull out a few threads for further examination, including topics, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches that continue to be marginalized in the field and strategies that have been used to disrupt such erasures and silences like sharing bibliographies and attending to citational justice. I also discuss the importance of environmental education researchers continuing to engage in interdisciplinary scholarship and in broadening our horizons by reading widely, adjacently, and in non-extractive, relational ways. I also suggest that we need to continue to attend to how research representations and academic publishing enhances or inhibits collective knowledge-building. Following Annette, my hope is that the environmental education research community continues to diversify so that, together, we create conditions for responding well to the polycrisis in which we are immersed.