Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene

This collection explores ways of "staying with the trouble" in the Anthropocene, challenging orthodoxies in childhood and youth studies and producing new ways of thinking and being. It focuses on three key challenges: storytelling about material stuff, experimenting with diverse modes of representation, and articulating different tools for working with young people in the Anthropocene. Contributions from scholars from the Anglo and non-Anglosphere are framed by an urgency to develop and deploy innovative, critical, and disruptive theoretical and methodological tools and technologies to identify and explore the material, temporal, and conceptual challenges for children and young people.

Format: Hardback
Length: 206 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This collection, a companion to Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kelly et al., 2022), seeks to explore and co-produce disruptive ways of "staying with the trouble" (Haraway, 2016) in childhood and youth studies, offering fresh perspectives and modes of being and becoming in the context of the Anthropocene. The collection addresses three key challenges: storytelling about the less tangible material world created by humans, experimenting with diverse modes of representation, and developing tools for working with young people in the Anthropocene. These tools and technologies enable attunement to and creation of new configurations of human and non-human threats, fostering a sense of responsibility for the future. The collection contributes to the understanding of the Anthropocene as a convergence of climate crisis, 6th mass extinction, and global capitalism, highlighting the need for innovative approaches to storytelling and engagement with young people.

Weight: 464g
Dimension: 160 x 236 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538153628