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oapen-20.500.12657-588802023-03-16T10:00:51Z Anthropocene Childhoods Ashton, Emily childhood studies literary studies environmental humanities science fiction sci-fi child development ontology racialization parenting colonialism climate indigeneity Anthropocene era child-climate futures climate crisis decolonization bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy & theory of education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies & policy::JNFR Multicultural education This open access book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare Colebrook, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and films including Frankenstein, Handmaid’s Tale, The Girl with All the Gifts, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and The Broken Earth trilogy. Emily Ashton raises important questions about the theorization of child development, the ontology of children, racialization and parenting and care, and how those intersect with questions of colonialism, climate, and indigeneity. The book contributes to the growing scholarship within childhood studies that is reconceptualizing the child within the Anthropocene era and argues for child-climate futures that renounce white supremacy and support Black and Indigenous futurities. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched. 2022-10-14T14:55:28Z 2022-10-14T14:55:28Z 2022 book ONIX_20221014_9781350262409_211 9781350262409 9781350262393 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58880 eng Feminist Thought in Childhood Research application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350262393.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b Knowledge Unlatched 9781350262409 9781350262393 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bloomsbury Academic 208 London open access
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This open access book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare Colebrook, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and films including Frankenstein, Handmaid’s Tale, The Girl with All the Gifts, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and The Broken Earth trilogy. Emily Ashton raises important questions about the theorization of child development, the ontology of children, racialization and parenting and care, and how those intersect with questions of colonialism, climate, and indigeneity. The book contributes to the growing scholarship within childhood studies that is reconceptualizing the child within the Anthropocene era and argues for child-climate futures that renounce white supremacy and support Black and Indigenous futurities. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
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