Abstract
Cities are central sites for reconfiguring human–nature encounters in the Anthropocene. The city constitutes a powerful imaginary of the human–nature disconnect and therefore brings credence and attention to our seemingly de-natured lives. Cities represent the effects of the human dominance over ‘nature’: humans in control, taming and managing the wildness of the natural world, keeping nature out. This chapter supports new imaginings for the mattering of natural relations through the ploy of intra-action. It is about opening up possibilities to consider how to engage with the complexity of the child–nature encounters in cities. Put simply, posthumanist and new materialist readings of child–nature encounters, like those presented in this chapter, invite researchers and educators to look at data differently in order to support a shared imagining for a ‘collective ecology’ of human and non-human, child–nature–city collectives in the Anthropocene.
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Malone, K. (2018). Ecologies: Entangled Natures. In: Children in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43091-5_4
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