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