Children in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Sustainability and Child Friendliness in Cities

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Children and the Anthropocene, a Re-turning (Karen Malone)....Pages 1-26 Stories That Matter (Karen Malone)....Pages 27-56 Cities of Children (Karen Malone)....Pages 57-80 Ecologies: Entangled Natures (Karen Malone)....Pages 81-129 Movement: Materiality of Mobilities (Karen Malone)....Pages 131-168 Animals: Multi-species Companions (Karen Malone)....Pages 169-194 Pollution: Porosity of Bodies (Karen Malone)....Pages 195-220 Climate Change: Monstrosities of Disasters (Karen Malone)....Pages 221-246 Reconfiguring the Child in the Anthropocene (Karen Malone)....Pages 247-257 Back Matter ....Pages 259-280