ISBN:
9781529226874
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
304.25085
Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020--Influence
;
Climatic changes-Social aspects
;
Parenthood-Australia
;
Population-Environmental aspects
Abstract:
Exploring the impact of climate change and the pandemic on people's decisions to form families and their experience of having children, this book makes a valuable contribution to debates on contemporary planetary crises.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis: Making Bushfire Babies -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Notes on Figures -- Notes on the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Interleave 1 -- 1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis -- Situating the 2019-2020 Australian megafires -- The Pyrocene -- Troubling the Pyrocene concept -- Making Pyrocene babies -- Existing studies of bushfire babies -- Pyro-reproduction: key themes and approach -- Air, breathing and smoke -- Technologies, digital platforms, data and biosensing -- Care, kinship and sex/gender -- Chapter outlines -- Interleave 2 -- 2 Methods in Crisis -- Theoretical influences -- Interviews with parents of newborns -- Interviews with professionals -- Making maps, sharing photographs and visualizing smoke -- Our own accounts -- Re(imagining) reproduction: data, analysis and writing -- Interleave 3 -- 3 Breath, Breathing and 'Mum-Guilt' -- Conceptualizing breath and breathing -- Materializations of breath -- Breathing and risk -- 'Mum-guilt' -- Smoke's nonhuman agency -- Conclusion: an exhalation (and air-filled pause) -- Interleave 4 -- 4 Smoke, Machines and Public Health -- Seeking expert advice -- "Weird experts" -- Assessing smoke levels with your body -- Blocking smoke's passage and wearing masks -- Following air quality data -- Cooling and purifying air -- Fires near us -- Conclusion: "even with everything we've put in place" -- Interleave 5 -- 5 Kin, Care and Crises -- Care and the queering effects of smoke -- Fire im/mobilities, care and crisis -- COVID im/mobilities: ruptures in care and fantasies of control -- Silver linings -- Infrastructures of care in disasters -- Conclusion: response-abilities and making bushfire babies -- Interleave 6 -- 6 Pyro-reproductive Futures -- Pyro-reproductive logics -- Overpopulation.
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