The Common Worlds of Children and Animals
Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives
- 136 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Common Worlds of Children and Animals
Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives
About this book
The lives and futures of children and animals are linked to environmental challenges associated with the Anthropocene and the acceleration of human-caused extinctions. This book sparks a fascinating interdisciplinary conversation about childāanimal relations, calling for a radical shift in how we understand our relationship with other animals and our place in the world.
It addresses issues of interspecies and intergenerational environmental justice through examining the entanglement of children's and animal's lives and common worlds. It explores everyday encounters and unfolding relations between children and urban wildlife. Inspired by feminist environmental philosophies and indigenous cosmologies, the book poses a new relational ethics based upon the small achievements of childāanimal interactions. It also provides an analysis of animal narratives in children's popular culture. It traces the geo-historical trajectories and convergences of these narratives and of the lives of children and animals in settler-colonised lands.
This innovative book brings together the fields of more-than-human geography, childhood studies, multispecies studies, and the environmental humanities. It will be of interest to students and scholars who are reconsidering the ethics of childāanimal relations from a fresh perspective.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The common worlds of children and animals
- 2 Children, kangaroos, and deer: an ethics of multispecies conviviality
- 3 Children, ants, and worms: an environmental ethics of mutual vulnerability
- 4 Children, bilbies, and spirit bears: a decolonising ethics of ecological reconciliation
- 5 Children, raccoons, and possums: an ethics of staying with the trouble
- 6 Indigenous child-dog relations: a recuperative ethics of kinship obligation
- Conclusion: relational ethics for entangled lives
- Index