Childhood and Biopolitics: Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures

by Nicholas Lee

Book Overview

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements in lifespan and lifestyle? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of current attempts to shape the world. In this book, Nicholas Lee argues that, if it can adapt, the discipline of childhood studies can make a critical and creative contribution to future making.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230252273
• ISBN13: 9780230252271
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"