This edited collection presents stories of children and young people's entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene. The authors use biographical narratives and arts-based methodologies to further the discussion surrounding young people's well-being, resilience, and enterprise. Through these stories, they seek to critically engage with the literature on the Anthropocene and interrogate concepts such as agency, structure, and belonging.
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). Meave Noonan is an Associate Researcher at UNESCO UNEVOC at RMIT University, Australia. Ana Sofia Ribeiro is a Research Fellow at Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Portugal. Deborah MacDonald is a Senior Research Associate and Manager of the Young Lives Research Lab at York University, Canada.
Part 1: Young People, Action, Being and Belonging in the Anthropocene Chapter 1: Refuge Anna Hickey-Moody Chapter 2: Young people and wildfire disasters: a capability for safety? Ana Sofia Ribeiro Chapter 3: Confident, creative and enterprising young people? The school strike for climate and lessons for Australian education Meave Noonan and James Goring Chapter 4: Dwell with Absence Selena de Carvalho Part 2: Education in/of/for the Anthropocene Chapter 5: We are all Children of Mapu Nuke: Anticolonial Education with/by/for Youth Wellbeing Pablo Aranguiz, Deborah MacDonald and Kate Tilleczek. Chapter 6: Schooling young people for the Anthropocene? Land, livestock and learning in rural Lesotho Nicola Ansell and Claire Dungey Chapter 7: Reacting to Uncertainty, Seeking Hope: The University Student as Homo PromptusLucas Walsh and Rosalyn Black Chapter 8: Reconceptualizing Eco-literacy and its didactical (pedagogical) purpose in ecologically challenging times Kassahun Weldemariam Part 3: Stories of Human and More than Human Entanglements in the Anthropocene Chapter 9: The relational world of gardens, young people and climate change in Tanna, Vanuatu Jean Mitchell Chapter 10: Young people, Asinotherapy and Trust: Experimental Sociologies for the Anthropocene Diego Carbajo Padilla Chapter 11: The estuary was dead: childhood and youth memories on bonds, pollution and the transformation of the Nervion River in post-industrial, metropolitan Bilbao Sandra Gonzalez Duran Chapter 12: Rethinking socio-ecological models of young people's well-being, resilience and enterprise in the Chthulucene Seth Brown Coda Martxel Mariskal
