Childhood and the Anthropocene

Friday, 11 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: FSE006 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC53 Sociology of Childhood (host committee)

Language: English and Spanish

This invited session will discuss the place of children in the anthropocene and is composed by the following papers:

1. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western University, Canada

“The Anthropocene, Extractivist Capitalism and Andean Childhoods”

2. Fabienne Huber, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

"Childhood in the Climate Crisis"

3. Florencia Paz Landeira, University College Cork, Ireland

"Child-friendly justice for the climate crisis"

4. Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto, Canada

“Climate action in an Eswatini community: (Re)storying intergenerational pedagogical encounters”

Possible: Jane Spiteri, University of Malta

Session Organizer:
Anne RAMOS, Switzerland
Oral Presentations
Navigating Justice: Children and Youth Participation in Climate Litigation
Florencia PAZ LANDEIRA, University College Cork, Ireland
'making Kin' - from the Perspective of Children in a Forest Kindergarten
Fabienne HUBER, University of Fribourg, Switzerland