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Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, this open access book explores how children’s literature, and cultural experiences tailored to them, afford young people new ways of navigating a world facing impending environmental crisis. With chapters from researchers in Europe, North America, Australasia and Asia, and working in fields such as literary, cultural, childhood and education studies, it provides multidisciplinary perspectives, visions and practices on, and models for, how children might embrace hope rather than fear as they confront today’s environmental issues. Starting and then moving out from stories to imagining and putting into practice more ethical ways of engaging with and being in the world, Children’s Literature, Cultures and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene examines various forms of storytelling, learning, thinking, and teaching that ask what children can learn from each other, from intergenerational and interspecies engagement, from human and more-than-human teachers. The chapters cover a huge variety of topics including: eco-pedagogy; depictions of food and malnutrition; engaging nature through graphic narratives; using indigenous children’s stories to navigate the Anthropocene; how children’s literature can enable eco-literate young people; social and environmental justice in Latinx literature; and how (re)reading popular dystopian works can help youth readers identify eco-critical hope in seemingly end-of-the-world narratives. A model for how humanities scholarship can have an impact greater than itself, Children’s Literature, Cultures and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene demonstrates how children’s texts and cultures might encourage ways of living more ethically in a world constantly changing. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Wroclaw University, Poland

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Author:   Dr Terri Doughty (Professor, Vancouver Island University, Canada) ,  Dr Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (Associate Professor of Literature, University of Wroclaw, Poland) ,  Dr Janet Grafton (Professor, Vancouver Island University, Canada)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781350509979

ISBN 10:   1350509973
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Thinking with Children’s Literature, Cultures and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene, Terri Doughty (Vancouver Island University, Canada) with Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and Janet Grafton Vancouver Island University, Canada) Part 1: Fictions of Consumption 2. A Different Kind of Ecotext: Food in Children’s Fiction as a Critical Pathway, Janet Grafton 3. Rickety Puppies, a Cow Called UNICEF and a Carrot with Healthy Eyes: More-than-human Teachers and the Malnourished Child – Annie McCarthy (University of Canberra, Australia) 4. Worldhoods of Vulnerability: Eating and Parasiting (in) the Anthropocene, Emily Ashton (University of Regina, Canada) and Audrey Aamodt (University of Regina, Canada) Part 2: Multispecies and Intergenerational Kinships 5. Making Kin in Moominvalley: An Ecocritical Reading of Tove Jansson’s Moomin Books, Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska (University of Gdansk, Poland) 6. Swirling Safe Space Hope in Butterflies Belong Here (2020), Nina Goga (Western Norway University for Applied Sciences, Norway) 7. Re-storying Plants: Plants as Friends, Metaphors, and Community in Trace Balla’s Landing with Wings, Melanie Duckworth Østfold University College, Norway) Part 3: Response-ability on Indigenous Land 8. Beyond the Animacy Divide with We Are Water Protectors: A Guiding Story for Kin-making in Fraught Times, Kathleen Forrester (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 9. Response-able Encounters with The Lost Words, Jennifer MacDonald (University of Regina, Canada), Apooyak’ii/Tiffany Prete (University of Lethbridge, Canada), and Erin Spring (University of Calgary, Canada) 10. A Thousand Pictures, Melvin Nowicki (Independent Scholar, Poland) 11. Navigating the Anthropocene with Indigenous Children’s Stories: Learning from the Kadars, Vera Verboom (Independent Scholar, Netherlands) 12. Children’s Literature as an Act of Defiance: My Place and Rejection of “Eurocentric” Environmental Ideals, Sarah Mokrzycki (Victoria University, Australia) Part 4: Eco-literacies, Ecopedagogies, and More-than-human Teachers 13. Gardening our Planet’s Future: Teaching Environmental Literacy and Praxis in the Literature Classroom, Tzina Kalogirou (University of Athens, Greece) and Eleni Mitsoula University of Athens, Greece) 14. Becoming with Dust and the More-than-human, Yanina Carrizo (RMIT University, Australia), Daniel X. Harris (RMIT University, Australia), and Linda Knight (RMIT University, Australia) 15. “We Will Make Mountains Green”: Mapping and Enhancing Climate Change Awareness and Action in the Children of the Indian Himalayan Region of Uttarakhand, Diti Vyas (Anant National University, India) and Nidhi Vyas (Independent Scholar, India) 16. Eco-literate Young People: Creative Community-engaged Research for Cultural and Social Sustainability, Amanda Wager (Vancouver Island University, Canada) Part 5: Intergenerational Hope in the Anthropocene 17. Generative (Re)Reading of Dystopian Young Adult Narratives, Andrea Casals (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile) 18. Grandmother Yarns, Affrica Taylor (Canberra University, Australia) 19. Save the Chupacabras!: The Entwining of Social and Environmental Justice in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Jesus Montaño (Baylor University, USA) 20. Speculating about Post-anthropocene Childhoods with Donna Haraway’s “The Camille Stories”: A Response from Children’s Literature and Culture Studies, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and Macarena García González (Glasgow University, UK) Bibliography Index

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"""This wide-ranging collection of papers brings together children's literature scholars, ecopedagogical theorists and practitioners, early childhood educators, anthropologists, and arts educators to generate a fascinating dialogue on childhood in the Anthropocene. Analyzing materials drawn from five continents, the collection presents a generous overview of current thoughts on more-than-human entanglements in the current moment. The collection tackles complex questions concerning matters such as the ethics of consumption and of hope. It draws heavily on Indigenous knowledge to build understandings of how humans might live response-ably alongside the rest of the living world."" --Lydia Kokkola, University of Oulu, Finland"

Author Information

Terri Doughty was Professor of English literature at Vancouver Island University, Canada, for many years and is now a VIU Honorary Research Associate. She has published articles and book chapters on girl culture, intergenerational collaboration, and critical plant studies approaches to children’s multimodal texts. She is co-editor of Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children’s Literature (2011). Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is Associate Professor of Literature at the Institute of English Studies, the University of Wroclaw, Poland. She has published on child-led research, posthumanism, and new materialism and co-edited Rulers of Literary Playgrounds Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature (2021), Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film (2021), Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind (2021), and Children’s Cultures after Childhood (2023). Janet Grafton holds a PhD in Environmental Studies and teaches in the English Department at Vancouver Island University, Canada.Her teaching and research interests include the environmental humanities, food literacy, and children’s literature, and she has published a number of articles in these fields.

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