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Anthropocene Childhoods: Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis - Feminist Thought in Childhood Research Ashton, Emily (University of Regina, Canada)
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Anthropocene Childhoods: Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis - Feminist Thought in Childhood Research
Ashton, Emily (University of Regina, Canada)
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, 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 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.
256 pages, 10 bw illus; 10 bw illus
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 17, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350262386 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 163 × 19 mm · 467 g |
| Language | English |
