The Anthropocene is, firstly, a discourse of the earth systems sciences. However, if humans - in all their historical, cultural, social, economic and political diversity are differently implicated in the emergence and consequences of the Anthropocene, then Childhood and Youth Studies must critically engage with, and contribute to, debates about these planetary wide changes and their consequences for children and young people.
Well-being, resilience, and enterprise are keywords in many policy, academic and community discourses about contemporary populations of children and young people around the globe. Most often these key-words take the form of psycho-biological based encouragements for young people to care for their own physical, mental and social health and well-being, to develop their resilience, and to become enterprising in a world that is taken-for-granted as being challenging and disruptive.
This collection brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young peoples well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems atmospheric, oceanic, terran, capitalist - are in crisis.
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 Peoples 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
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.
