Beschreibung:
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.
Argues that climate change and recent developments in bio-science are altering the relationship between states, adults and children
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