Childhood and Biopolitics [electronic resource] : Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures /
Lee, N.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Children as human futures : children as lifeforms -- Childhood and biopolitics : life, voice, resource -- Childhood and biosocial imaginations -- Childhood and mental capital -- Childhood, vaccination and philanthrocapitalism -- Childhood, climate change and human agency -- Children's roles in responses to climate change -- Conclusion.
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.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Environmental sociology.
Social policy.
Social groups.
Family.
Sociology.
Sustainable development.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Environmental Sociology.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Sociology, general.
Sustainable Development.