Anthropocene childhoods [electronic book] : speculative fiction, racialization, and climate crisis / Emily Ashton.
By: Ashton, Emily, Dr [author]
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BookSeries: Feminist thought in childhood research: Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: online resource (209 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781350262386 (hardback); 9781350262393 (e-Book).Subject(s): Child development | Early childhood educationDDC classification: 372.21 Online resources: e-Book | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 372.21 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anthropocene childhoods: situating speculative child-figures -- Geontological figurations of anthropocene childhoods -- Infecting whiteness: child-monsters at the end of the world -- Becoming-geos: the stratification of childhood -- Monstrous love for regenerative cyborgs -- Parental stewardship: bionormative care as environmental surrogate -- Educational imaginaries for child-climate futures.
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.
Electronic reproduction.: Knowledge Unlatched. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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