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Anthropocene Childhoods: Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis

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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, 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.

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Series Title

The series feminist thought in Childhood research

Call Number

RD 372.21 Ash a

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic., 2023

Collation

x + 198 pp.; 13,5 x 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781350263293

Classification

372.21

Content Type

digital text

Media Type

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Carrier Type

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Edition

1st ed.

Subject(s)

Feminism
Antropology
ecology

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Statement of Responsibility

Emily Ashton

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