ABSTRACT Childhood studies scholars have increasingly sought to examine the complex entanglements of children's lives with nonhuman materials, animals, plants and earthly processes. Doing so has enabled new insights into children's relationships with global challenges such as climate change. Now, researchers from many disciplines are reflecting critically upon whether such challenges can be obviously ascribed to human activity, suggesting that we are entering a new (geological) epoch: the Anthropocene. The present collection of papers offers a range of empirically-informed, critical and theoretical analyses of the (possible) relationships between children and the Anthropocene. This paper frames the key debates covered in the symposium, introducing recent scholarship in childhood studies and opening out critical reflections on the term ‘Anthropocene’. It also provides an introduction to the papers making up the symposium.

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研讨会简介：人类世中的儿童研究

摘要 儿童研究学者越来越多地寻求研究儿童生活与非人类材料、动物、植物和地球过程的复杂纠缠。这样做使人们对儿童与气候变化等全球挑战的关系有了新的认识。现在，许多学科的研究人员正在批判性地思考这些挑战是否可以明显归因于人类活动，这表明我们正在进入一个新的（地质）时代：人类世。目前的论文集对儿童与人类世之间的（可能的）关系提供了一系列经验丰富、批判性和理论性的分析。本文阐述了研讨会中涉及的主要辩论，介绍最近的儿童研究奖学金，并对“人类世”一词展开批判性反思。它还介绍了组成研讨会的论文。