Making kin, not babies? Towards childist kinship in the “Anthropocene”

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Authors

  • Nikolas Mattheis

To “make kin, not babies” is what Donna Haraway has recently proposed in response to the so-called “Anthropocene”. Building on other critical engagements with Haraway’s proposal, this paper interrogates it from a childist perspective. While striving towards a “pro-child” position on kinship, Haraway only goes so far in explicating this aim. The paper suggests that challenging adultism as well as attention to children's ongoing kinship practices are required.

Original languageEnglish
JournalChildhood
Volume29
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)512-528
Number of pages17
ISSN0907-5682
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11.2022

    Research areas

  • childism, environmental reproductive justice, Haraway, kinship, population
  • Educational science