ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is introduced by raising two questions: first, an onto-epistemological question, and second an ethical one. It has moved from a number of counter premises and insists that children grow up in more-than-human worlds, not just in human societies. The book emphasises the productive nature of relations, including child–animal relations and have responded to the declaration of the Anthropocene as a wake-up call requiring paradigms for reconsidering our place and agency in the world. It endeavours to tease out the ethical affordances of children's and animals' materially and semiotically entangled lives on the local grounds of their common worlds—paying close attention to the specificities of the geo-historical-ecological convergences, complexities, and challenges at each locale. Finally, the grounded observations of child–animal encounters have offered a window into the how of minor interspecies achievements and the relational ethical possibilities that they portend.
