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This book brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young people's well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems are in crisis.
List of contents
Part 1
Plastics, Soils, Water, Weather and Waste: The Materialities of Childhoods in the Anthropocene
Chapter 1: Plastic childhoods (and more): visceralities, vortices, vectors, virtualities Peter Kraftl
Chapter 2: Resilience as more-than-human Mindy Blaise, Jo Pollitt, Jane Merewether, and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Chapter 3: Soil as Kin: Unearthing Old Ways Aviva Reed
Chapter 4: Living in the Anthropocene Adrianne Bacelar de Castro and Sarah Hennessy
Part 2
Temporalities and Spaces: Young People's Anthropocenes
Chapter 5: Blasted Places: Smog, Steel and Stigma in a Post-industrial Town Anoop Nayak
Chapter 6: The net of heaven is vast, vast...': Rethinking a philosophy for youth work in the Anthropocene Kerry Montero
Chapter 7: The Anthropocene and the two-faced responsibility of young people in the European welfare regimes Kari Paakkunainen, Juhani Saari, and Juri Mykkanen
Chapter 8: Young People and the Anthropocene: Futures, Past and Present? Peter Kelly
Part 3
Knowing and Naming Young People and the Anthropocene
Chapter 9: Hacking the Political Economy of Youth Shane Duggan
Chapter 10: Youth in/of the Anthropocene: Kindred Ecologies for a Digital Warming World Kate Tilleczek
Chapter 11: Is there such a thing as youth in the Anthropocene? Michael Marder
Coda Martxel Mariskal
About the author
Peter Kraftl is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Peter Kelly is Head of UNESCO UNEVOC at RMIT University, Australia, and Professor of Education in the School of Education.
Diego Carbajo Padilla is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU).
Anoop Nayak is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Newcastle University, UK.
Seth Brown is a Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia and a Program Leader, Exploring Education Ecologies of Well-being, Resilience and Enterprise at UNEVOC@RMIT.
Rosalyn Black is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University, Australia.
