{"product_id":"childrens-literatures-cultures-and-pedagogies-in-the-anthropocene-multidisciplinary-entanglements-9781350509979","title":"Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBringing 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.\u003c\/b\u003eWith 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, \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature, Cultures and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecan help youth readers identify eco-critical hope in seemingly end-of-the-world narratives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA model for how humanities scholarship can have an impact greater than itself, \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature, Cultures and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how children's texts and cultures might encourage ways of living more ethically in a world constantly changing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWroclaw University, Poland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerri Doughty\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Knowing Their Place? Identity and Space in Children's Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2011).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRulers of Literary Playgrounds Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003e Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind \u003c\/i\u003e(2021)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Children's Cultures after Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e (2023).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Janet Grafton\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705012814098,"sku":"9781350509979","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c2466287-0467-474d-bccf-63267ca4be7a.jpg?v=1762336628","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/childrens-literatures-cultures-and-pedagogies-in-the-anthropocene-multidisciplinary-entanglements-9781350509979","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}