Anthropocene childhoods : speculative fiction, racialization, and climate crisis /
"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 b...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London [England] :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Feminist thought in childhood research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350262393 1350262390 9781350262416 1350262412 9781350262409 1350262404 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350262416 |