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100 1 _aPacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica
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245 1 0 _aUnruly racoons and troubled educators
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_bnature/culture divides in a childcare centre
260 _c2015
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520 3 _aCurrent times of anthropogenically damaged landscapes call us to re-think human and nonhuman relations and consider multiple possibilities for alternative and more sustainable futures. As many environmental and Indigenous humanities scholars have noted, central to this re-thinking is unsettling the colonial nature/culture divide in Western epistemology. In this article, through a series of situated, small, everyday stories from childcare centres, we relate raccoon-child-educator encounters in order to consider how raccoons' repeated boundary-crossing and their apprehension as unruly subjects might reveal the impossibility of the nature/culture divide. We tell these stories, not to offer a final fixed solution to the asymmetrical, awkward and frictional entanglements of humans' and raccoons' lives, but as a responsive telling that may bring forth new possibilities for responsible, affective and ethical co-habitations.
650 0 _aDay care centres
_xResearch
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650 0 _aChildren and the environment
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700 1 _aNxumalo, Fikile
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773 0 _tEnvironmental Humanities
_gVol. 7, no. 1 (2015), pp. 151-168
856 4 1 _uhttp://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol7/7.8.pdf
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