Anthropocene Childhoods: Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis

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Emily Ashton (University of Regina, Canada) Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University UK)

Anthropocene Childhoods

Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis

Emily Ashton (University of Regina, Canada), Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University UK), Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (University of Victoria Canada)

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Bloomsbury Academic
30 May 2024

Philosophy & theory of education

Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research

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.

By: Emily Ashton (University of Regina Canada)
Edited by: Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University UK), Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (University of Victoria Canada)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350262423
ISBN 10: 1350262420
Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily Ashton is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Regina, Canada.

Reviews for Anthropocene Childhoods: Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis

Ashton has produced a provocative and engaging text, which challenges the reader to interrogate our configurations of childhood through an exercise in apocalyptic thinking via the medium of speculative fiction. Through her subjects – racialized child-figures at end of the world – she challenges white, privileged versions of childhoods of the Anthropocene. A must-read for anyone who is engaged in deep reflection on the futures of childhood and childhood studies. * Anne Luke, Director, Inclusion, Childhood and Youth Research Centre, School of Education, University of Leeds, UK * The figure of the child has long been mobilized as a symbol of hope for the future. But in these precarious times of anthropogenic climate change, humanity’s future is no longer assured. In this provocative book, Emily Ashton challenges us to re-imagine the possibilities for child-climate futures by drawing on feminist, Black and Indigenous geologics to speculate about hopeful otherwise modes of being and relating on a damaged Earth. * Affrica Taylor, University of Canberra, Australia *