Nicholas Mark Lee

I am currently under contract with Palgrave Macmillan (deadline June 2011) to write a book entitled Childhood and Bio-politics: Climate change, bio-science and human futures . My current research project involves climate change and concerns for sustainable development along with recent developments in bio-science require studies of childhood to understand childhood as a bio-political phenomenon. Climate change requires us to rethink our relationship with the future, raising the question of limits to economic growth. Since children have long been taken to embody the future, a good deal of this re-thinking is taking place through relations between states, adults and children. At the same time, bio-scientific developments are increasing our knowledge of human potential and our ability to intervene in and shape that potential. Once again, childhood is key. Today s social scientists need to respond by becoming more familiar and comfortable with life processes, in all their variety, than they have been in recent years. Childhood research needs to understand novelty and creativity in relations between life processes and social processes if it is to play its part in shaping futures.

doctorate from University of Reading (1997). Has experience in Education, focusing on Education