ABSTRACT

The essay reflects on the children’s environmental movement from the perspective of cultural theory, as well as the authors’ own and others’ research on children’s encounters, experiences and engagement in public life. The concepts of political knowingness, childhood publics, and listening publics are evoked to think through the surprise that the children’s environmental movement generated in the public sphere. The idiom is positioned as an audience ‘hearing aid’ for turning babbling into political messages. In so doing we find that the messages from the children’s environmental movement are not out of place in the current humanities and social sciences literatures on the Anthropocene.

摘要

这篇文章从文化理论的角度反思儿童的环境运动，以及作者自己和他人对儿童在公共生活中的遭遇、经历和参与的研究。政治认识、儿童公众和倾听公众的概念被唤起思考儿童环保运动在公共领域产生的惊喜。这个成语被定位为听众的“助听器”，用于将胡言乱语变成政治信息。通过这样做，我们发现来自儿童环境运动的信息在当前关于人类世的人文和社会科学文献中并不少见。