Paper Details

Name: Gagandeep Kaur, Renu Sharma & Vinod Kumar
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume No: 13, Issue No: 1 (January-June)
Page Number: 131-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20458749

ABSTRACT
This paper explores the nexus of communication, ecofeminism and sustainability education by analysing how storytelling in Anuradha Roy’s fiction can act as a communicative tool for mainstreaming Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) values across higher education sector. By utilizing ecofeminist theory and sustainability communication, the research suggests how gendered ecological resistance within Roy’s novels can be pedagogically employed to inform environmental awareness and ethical responsibility. Via literary and discourse analysis of representative novels—The Folded Earth, Sleeping on Jupiter, All the Lives We Never Lived, and The Earthspinner— the research interprets how Roy’s narratives construct an ecofeminist ethic of care that aligns with principles of sustainability, social justice, and gender inclusivity. This analysis reveals how her narratives exceed aesthetics to serve as sustainability communication, rendering complex global objectives experientially gripping. By asking readers to empathize with the ecology and reflect on their morals, these texts offer glimpses of the intersections between human and natural. The study serves to establish literature as a mediator between ethical imagination and educational change, suggesting that narrative-based pedagogical practices integrate sustainability communication in curricula. Finally, the paper claims that ecofeminist storytelling supports SDG goals by encouraging interdisciplinary consciousness raising, critical reflection and compassionate engagement–the very capacities promoted in re-imagining education as a prompt for environmental and social renewal.

Keywords:-
Ecofeminism; Sustainability Communication; ESG; SDG; Education; Anuradha Roy; Narrative Pedagogy.