ABSTRACT
This chapter has considered and explored forest, beaches, and wild place-spaces and critically examined the relationality between human, non-human, and multispecies kin bodies. The separate locations have uncovered the affective and impactful relationality formed during bodily encounters. Forest, beaches, and wild place-spaces reconfigure past-present and also connect to future becomings where superheroes, beaches, and the Dragon Tree highlight the agentic nature of relational assemblages. These place-spaces help articulate new ways to understand young children's and teacher's capacities and capabilities and refute some of the commonly held tropes of the helpless child. Life in our contemporary world decouples the links between food production and the retail of food. The farm setting helps to re-addresses this separation and erasure. However, these are not idyllic worlds. The examples in this chapter acknowledge some of these Anthropocentric issues and challenges, and have attempted to reimagine alternative outdoor relational experiences that can impact the way we think about ECEC practice and sustainable futures.
