Peter Kraftl is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Peter Kelly is Head of UNESCO UNEVOC at RMIT University, Australia, and Professor of Education in the School of Education.

Diego Carbajo Padilla is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU).

Anoop Nayak is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Newcastle University, UK.

Seth Brown is a Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia and a Program Leader, Exploring Education Ecologies of Well-being, Resilience and Enterprise at UNEVOC@RMIT.

Rosalyn Black is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University, Australia.

Part 1

Plastics, Soils, Water, Weather and Waste: The Materialities of Childhoods in the Anthropocene

Chapter 1: Plastic childhoods (and more): visceralities, vortices, vectors, virtualities Peter Kraftl

Chapter 2: Resilience as more-than-human Mindy Blaise, Jo Pollitt, Jane Merewether, and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw

Chapter 3: Soil as Kin: Unearthing Old Ways Aviva Reed

Chapter 4: Living in the Anthropocene Adrianne Bacelar de Castro and Sarah Hennessy

Part 2

Temporalities and Spaces: Young People's Anthropocenes

Chapter 5: Blasted Places: Smog, Steel and Stigma in a Post-industrial Town Anoop Nayak

Chapter 6: The net of heaven is vast, vast...': Rethinking a philosophy for youth work in the Anthropocene Kerry Montero

Chapter 7: The Anthropocene and the two-faced responsibility of young people in the European welfare regimes Kari Paakkunainen, Juhani Saari, and Juri Mykkanen

Chapter 8: Young People and the Anthropocene: Futures, Past and Present? Peter Kelly

Part 3

Knowing and Naming Young People and the Anthropocene

Chapter 9: Hacking the Political Economy of Youth Shane Duggan

Chapter 10: Youth in/of the Anthropocene: Kindred Ecologies for a Digital Warming World Kate Tilleczek

Chapter 11: Is there such a thing as youth in the Anthropocene? Michael Marder

Coda Martxel Mariskal

This book brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young people's well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems are in crisis.