Mapping Child-Animal Care Relations in Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia

Abstract

Amy Mulvenna is a human geographer currently based at the School of Environment, Education, and Development at the University of Manchester, UK. She is invested in arts-based, creative approaches to mapping praxis and participatory research with children and young people. Her research considers both mapping and storytelling as predicated along affective, material, and performative lines and further seeks to interrogate and reposition normative geographies of division as have been traditionally framed and mapped in the context of Belfast. Amy is additionally interested in critical approaches to children’s literature, the focus of her MA, particularly the work of Shaun Tan, with a theoretical focus on ecocriticism and common worlds pedagogies. Email: amy.mulvenna@postgrad. manchester.ac.uk