Children in the Anthropocene

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Children and the Anthropocene, a Re-turning

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 1-26

3. Stories That Matter

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 27-56

4. Cities of Children

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 57-80

5. Ecologies: Entangled Natures

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 81-129

6. Movement: Materiality of Mobilities

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 131-168

7. Animals: Multi-species Companions

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 169-194

8. Pollution: Porosity of Bodies

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 195-220

9. Climate Change: Monstrosities of Disasters

   • Karen Malone

   Pages 221-246

10. Reconfiguring the Child in the Anthropocene

    • Karen Malone

    Pages 247-257

11. Back Matter

    Pages 259-280

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This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context. Children and their entangled relations with the human and more-than-human world are located centrally to the research on cities in Bolivia and Kazakhstan, which investigates the future challenges of the Anthropocene. The author explores these relations by employing techniques of intra-action, diffraction and onto-ethnography in order to reveal the complexities of children’s lives. These tools are supported by a theoretical framing that draws on posthumanist and new materialist literature. Through rich and complex stories of space-time-mattering in cities, this work connects children’s voices with a host of others to address the question of what it means to be a child in the Anthropocene.

• Development Studies
• Sustainability
• child friendly cities
• Anthropocene
• La Paz
• Fukushima
• Sustainable
• posthumanist perspective
• materialist perspective
• UNICEF
• City
• nature
• childhood
• urbanisation
• ecological community
• ethnography
• Bolivia
• Kazakhstan
• childhood studies
• urban geography and urbanism
• Environmental Geography

• University of Western Sydney Bankstown Campus, Milperra, Australia

  Karen Malone

Karen Malone is Professor of Sustainability at the Centre for Educational Research, Western Sydney University, Australia, and Chair of the UNICEF Child Friendly Asia Pacific network. Her research interests include posthumanism in the Anthropocene, children, nature and multi-species relations, sustainable cities, child friendly cities and contemporary childhoods.

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