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Will 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 critica...

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Main Authors: Lee, Nicholas.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in childhood and youth
Subjects:
Children and politics.
Children and the environment.
Children > Effect of technological innovations on.
Age groups: children.
Climate change.
Sustainability.
Society.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137317186
Summary: Will 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230252271.
Carrier Form: 192 p.
ISBN: 9781137317186 :
1137317183 :
CLC: C913.5
Contents: 1. 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. Conclusion.

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