Childhood, Futurity, and Settler Time

Settler childhood’s futurity is grounded in settler time: the colonial temporal structures of settlers that view time as strictly delineated, opposition to Indigenous heterogeneity—the coexistence a multiplicity temporalities. Mark Rifkin describes this heterogeneity having power unsettle frames reference. In response Adam Gaudry’s call for engage insurgent research by engaging with and worldviews while focusing on problems, turning tension sovereignty alongside Barbara Adam’s conception care relations offers way childhoods. Bringing together two ways rethinking temporality through Dwayne Donald’s ethical relationality enables critique colonialism without seeking take up childhoods fill broken spaces settlers’ own. This effort reflects Alexis Shotwell’s warning attendees Common Worlds colloquium Responding Ecological Challenges with/in Contemporary Childhoods: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium Climate Pedagogies be attentive epistemic extractivism problem resolve damage behave if they are Indigenous. Instead, I propose forward which children reentangled both common worlds fates.