The greenhouse effect: Multispecies childhood and non-innocent relations of care

Abstract

This article examines the relations between human children and other than human animals in a multispecies ethnographic study conducted in an unofficial educational zoo established in a greenhouse in a lower secondary school. The specific focus is on the practices in which the students become responsible carers of animals. The analysis employs the theory of care (de la Bellacasa) and a storytelling approach (Haraway) to develop the concept of multispecies childhood and to offer ways to account for the complexities of lives shared across species.

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Child–animal relations education more-than-human multispecies childhood multispecies ethnography zoo bag lady storytelling

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