Weathering time : Walking with young children in a changing climate

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Rooney, Tonya. (2019). Weathering time : Walking with young children in a changing climate. Children's Geographies. 17(2), pp. 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2018.1474172

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Authors	Rooney, Tonya
Abstract	Children growing up today face a multitude of climate-related challenges, requiring a capacity for creative and ethical modes of attending to both the known and unknown effects of a changing climate. In response to these challenges, I explore the potential in children’s weathering encounters, as observed during an ethnographic research project titled Walking with Wildlife in Wild Weather Times. In particular, I consider the various ways children engage with the weather and what this reveals about our (human) interconnections and minglings with the weather world. In this paper, I focus specifically on the temporal dimensions of child/weather encounters. My aim is to show that taking the time with children to slow down and attend to the elemental affects in the world, can reveal a weathered entanglement of past, present and future and a foundation for a curious and open attentiveness in responding to the climate challenges ahead.
Keywords	early childhood; weathering; climate change; time-space; walking; environmental education
Year	2019
Journal	Children's Geographies
Journal citation	17 (2), pp. 177-189
Publisher	Routledge
ISSN	1473-3277
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2018.1474172
Scopus EID	2-s2.0-85061094382
Research or scholarly	Research
Page range	177-189
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Online	14 May 2018
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Accepted	04 Apr 2018
Deposited	13 Jan 2022

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