Anthropocene childhoods : speculative fiction, racialization, and climate crisis / Emily Ashton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashton, Emily, author.

Series:

Feminist thought in childhood research

Education 2022

Feminist Thought in Childhood Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education--Philosophy.

Early childhood education.

Popular culture.

Child development.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This 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, Naomi Klein, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and films including Frankenstein, The Road, Handmaid's Tale, The Girl with All the Gifts and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Emily Ashton raises important questions about and the theorization of child development, the ontology of children, racialization, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Anthropocene Childhoods: Situating Speculative Child-Figures

2. Climate Apocalypse: Figurations of the End of the World

3. Beyond Survival: Contested Futurities for Anthropocene Child

4. Infecting Whiteness: Child-Monsters and the End of the (White) World

5. Becoming-Geos: The Stratification of Childhood

6. Speculative Care: Monstrous Love for Regenerative Cyborgs

7. Geos-Imaginaries of Child-Climate Futures

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350262416

9781350262409

OCLC:

1293234253

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.