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Title
Crossing a zone of mutual oblivion: sustainability and childrearing in the Anthropocene
Description
Raising future generations is a culturally diverse, universally technological human project. This research brought the everyday work of raising children into the domain of sustainability scholarship, by first proposing a model of childrearing as a globally distributed socio-technical system, and then exploring the model with participants in two nodes – an elementary and middle school, and a children’s museum. In the process, the research objective shifted towards using methods that were less academic and more relevant to childrearing agents. The focus on participatory survey data was abandoned, in favor of autoethnographic documentation of a long-term engagement with a third node of the system, a child welfare setting. This approach yielded unexpected findings that fit the proposed model, identified characteristics of a Zone of Mutual Oblivion (ZMO) that exists between childrearing and sustainability, and clarified ways in which people prioritize their own needs and responsibilities, the developmental needs of children, the potential needs and capacities of future generations, and the functional integrity of ecological systems.
Date Created
2019
Contributors
- Cazel-Jahn, Angela (Author)
- Blue Swadener, Elizabeth (Thesis advisor)
- Allenby, Braden (Committee member)
- Lobo, Jose (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
viii, 234 pages : illustrations (some color)
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55607
Statement of Responsibility
by Angela Cazel-Jahn
Description Source
Viewed on December 3, 2020
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2019
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-211)
Field of study: Sustainability
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System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 2 months ago
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