TY - JOUR AU - O'Brien, Shelley PY - 2022/04/09 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Speculating the Symbio: Possibilities for Multispecies and Multi-Entity World Making in Childhood JF - Journal of Childhood Studies JA - J Child. Stud. VL - IS - SE - Articles from Research DO - 10.18357/jcs202219969 UR - https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/19969 SP - 45-55 AB - In this paper, I attempt to interrupt conventional analyses of childhood and instead illustrate the importance of diverse stories around child-nature relations. Vital materialist perspectives dismantle and disrupt binaries, so by exploring these perspectives, I am decentering the (adult) human and thinking-with the possibilities for multispecies relations in precarious times. This paper finishes with a speculative story that proposes lively experiments in multispecies and multi-entity possibilities, in a near-future contaminated Toronto. Enabled by microbes that have flourished on a shipwreck of e-waste, children, birds, and a dog codiscover the Symbio. ER -