Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis: Making Bushfire Babies 9781529226874

Table of contents :
Front Cover
Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis: Making Bushfire Babies
Copyright information
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Table
Notes on Figures
Notes on the Authors
Acknowledgements
Interleave 1
1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis
Situating the 2019–2020 Australian megafires
The Pyrocene
Troubling the Pyrocene concept
Making Pyrocene babies
Existing studies of bushfire babies
Pyro-reproduction: key themes and approach
Air, breathing and smoke
Technologies, digital platforms, data and biosensing
Care, kinship and sex/gender
Chapter outlines
Interleave 2
2 Methods in Crisis
Theoretical influences
Interviews with parents of newborns
Interviews with professionals
Making maps, sharing photographs and visualizing smoke
Our own accounts
Re(imagining) reproduction: data, analysis and writing
Interleave 3
3 Breath, Breathing and ‘Mum-Guilt’
Conceptualizing breath and breathing
Materializations of breath
Breathing and risk
‘Mum-guilt’
Smoke’s nonhuman agency
Conclusion: an exhalation (and air-filled pause)
Interleave 4
4 Smoke, Machines and Public Health
Seeking expert advice
“Weird experts”
Assessing smoke levels with your body
Blocking smoke’s passage and wearing masks
Following air quality data
Cooling and purifying air
Fires near us
Conclusion: “even with everything we’ve put in place”
Interleave 5
5 Kin, Care and Crises
Care and the queering effects of smoke
Fire im/mobilities, care and crisis
COVID im/mobilities: ruptures in care and fantasies of control
Silver linings
Infrastructures of care in disasters
Conclusion: response-abilities and making bushfire babies
Interleave 6
6 Pyro-reproductive Futures
Pyro-reproductive logics
Overpopulation
Regeneration, reassurance and reparative parenting
Pyro-reproductive feelings
Escape
Ambivalence
Solastalgia
Conclusion: bushfires, babies and population troubles
Interleave 7
7 Making Bushfire Babies
Learning from wombats and orchids
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
References
Index