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

Abstract

<div lang="en" class="abs"><p class="abs_header">Abstract</p><p>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.</p></div>