Reproduction, kin and climate crisis : making bushfire babies / Celia Roberts [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Celia, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Parenthood--Australia.

Parenthood.

Population--Environmental aspects.

Population.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Exploring the impact of climate change and the pandemic on people's decisions to form families and their experience of having children, this book makes a valuable contribution to debates on contemporary planetary crises.

Contents:

Front Cover

Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis: Making Bushfire Babies

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table

Notes on Figures

Notes on the Authors

Acknowledgements

Interleave 1

1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis

Situating the 2019-2020 Australian megafires

The Pyrocene

Troubling the Pyrocene concept

Making Pyrocene babies

Existing studies of bushfire babies

Pyro-reproduction: key themes and approach

Air, breathing and smoke

Technologies, digital platforms, data and biosensing

Care, kinship and sex/gender

Chapter outlines

Interleave 2

2 Methods in Crisis

Theoretical influences

Interviews with parents of newborns

Interviews with professionals

Making maps, sharing photographs and visualizing smoke

Our own accounts

Re(imagining) reproduction: data, analysis and writing

Interleave 3

3 Breath, Breathing and 'Mum-Guilt'

Conceptualizing breath and breathing

Materializations of breath

Breathing and risk

'Mum-guilt'

Smoke's nonhuman agency

Conclusion: an exhalation (and air-filled pause)

Interleave 4

4 Smoke, Machines and Public Health

Seeking expert advice

"Weird experts"

Assessing smoke levels with your body

Blocking smoke's passage and wearing masks

Following air quality data

Cooling and purifying air

Fires near us

Conclusion: "even with everything we've put in place"

Interleave 5

5 Kin, Care and Crises

Care and the queering effects of smoke

Fire im/mobilities, care and crisis

COVID im/mobilities: ruptures in care and fantasies of control

Silver linings

Infrastructures of care in disasters

Conclusion: response-abilities and making bushfire babies

Interleave 6

6 Pyro-reproductive Futures

Pyro-reproductive logics

Overpopulation.

Regeneration, reassurance and reparative parenting

Pyro-reproductive feelings

Escape

Ambivalence

Solastalgia

Conclusion: bushfires, babies and population troubles

Interleave 7

7 Making Bushfire Babies

Learning from wombats and orchids

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5292-2688-0

1-5292-2687-2

OCLC:

1401577242