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Children in the Anthropocene

Rethinking Sustainability and Child Friendliness in Cities

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Karen Malone

    1. University of Western Sydney Bankstown Campus, Milperra, Australia

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  • Calls for recognition of the ecological environments present in our ever expanding cities
  • Illustrates the complexity of the lives of children living in urban environments through a series of country-based case studies
  • Theoretically framed by posthumanist and new materialist literature

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Sydney Bankstown Campus, Milperra, Australia

    Karen Malone

About the author

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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