The Common Worlds of Children and Animals: Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives

ISBN-13: 9781138947597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 136 str.

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw; Affrica Taylor

Opis

This book offers detailed accounts of everyday encounters between children and animals, exploring the myriad ways in which their lives are entangled, co-shaped and co-implicated in their common worlds. This groundbreaking book uniquely frames child-animal relations within the context of global ecological challenges, engaging with more-than-human theory to consider the interconnected cultural, environmental and ethical issues we face and bequeath to future generations. The book traces child-animal geo-historical trajectories and convergences in different places, considers child-animal entanglements through an examination of global and nation specific cultural texts, and reflects upon the ethical implications of child-animal entangled pasts, presents and futures. This book also showcases new and innovative research methods, including multispecies ethnographies and applied more-than-human relational geographies and philosophies.

Spis treści

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–Dogs: A Recuperative Ethics of Kinship Obligation Conclusion: Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives