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Troubling Intersections of Childhood/Animals/Education: Narratives of Love, Life, and Death
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Troubling Intersections of Childhood/Animals/Education: Narratives of Love, Life, and Death

Pauliina Rautio and Tracy Young
Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research, pp.1379-1398
Springer International Handbooks of Education (SIHE), Springer Nature, 1st
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67286-1_73

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Abstract

Mapping not only the entanglements in which animals are situated but also our own positions within tangled skeins of humans relationships can be a method of coming to understand the workings of that daunting term intersectionality. (jones, 2015, p. 99). pattrice jones (2015) entreats us to not only map the entanglements in which animals and humans are situated but to interrogate the intersections of human-animal boundaries and that which demarcates the former from the latter, to see how they support and prop each other up. In this chapter, we trouble the intersections of childhood/animal/education seeking to circulate and disrupt the normalizing ideologies of speciesism that reinforce human exceptionalism and dominion. This chapter contributes to political and ethical conversations in early childhood education (ECE), as we argue that the commodification of nonhuman animals infiltrates educational praxis, in ways that contribute to our epistemological uncertainty as we search for possibilities of animal liberation and the desire to live without places of injustice and violence (White, 2015).

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