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.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1. Children and the Anthropocene, a Re-Turning.- Chapter 2. Stories that Matter.- Chapter 3. Cities of Children.- Chapter 4. Ecologies: Entangled Natures.- Chapter 5. Movement: Materiality of Mobilities.- Chapter 6. Animals: Multispecies Companions.- Chapter 7. Pollution: Porosity of Bodies.- Chapter 8. Climate Change: Monstrosities of Disasters.- Chapter 9. Reconfiguring the Child in the Anthropocene.