|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewWill the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making. Full Product DetailsAuthor: N. LeePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 3.452kg ISBN: 9780230252271ISBN 10: 0230252273 Pages: 181 Publication Date: 13 November 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Children as Human Futures: Children as Lifeforms 2. Childhood and Biopolitics: Life, Voice, Resource 3. Childhood and Biosocial Imaginations 4. Childhood and Mental Capital 5. Childhood, Vaccination and Philanthrocapitalism 6. Childhood, Climate Change and Human Agency 7. Children's Roles in Responses to Climate Change 8. ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationNicholas Lee is Associate Professor of Childhood at Warwick University, UK. He has previously published Childhood and Human Value: Development, Separation and Separability and Childhood and Society: Growing Up in an Age of Uncertainty. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |