More Than Human Childhoods: Bhutanese Children’s Entanglements with Sentient Mountains and Ecological Futures

Place:

Talhogang, Punakha Bhutan

This study explores Bhutanese children’s entanglements with mountains as sentient beings (yul lha), challenging anthropocentric developmental models. Using new materialist ethnography, child-led methods, and Barad’s diffractive analysis, it integrates posthumanist, feminist, and Bhutanese cosmologies. Children are co-researchers. The project informs climate-resilient, culturally responsive education grounded in Gross National Happiness.

Entangled Worlds

The Entangled Worlds Research Collaboratory acknowledges the Noongar people who are the traditional custodians of the Boodja (Country) on which we work.
We acknowledge their ongoing commitment to caring for Country amidst the ongoing impacts of colonisation.