In this paper we explore what decentring the child in posthumanism does to our research practices, to our conceptualisations of and relationalities to the child. Crucially, we explore the imperative for other ways to encounter the child – that pursue a decolonising and de/recentralising agenda. We pursue tentacular lines of enquiry through a series of interwoven stories – some more familiar than others. It is by queering old narratives that new and unexpected stories concerning pedagogical documentation, sustainability and environmental education, and the child’s contaminated connection to ‘nature’ begin to emerge. This paper attempts to mobilise ‘the posthuman child’ as feral, an uncomfortable in-between that invites us to grapple with the disease of life on a damaged planet. Central to our storytelling is recycled, ‘natural’ materials found in a Reggio Emilia kindergarten in Norway. Specifically, cork has guided us; insisting that we take the non-innocence of matter to the heart of enquiries. We do this to illustrate the potential of feminist new materialism to respond with situated, embodied, affective insights and provocations that might offer ways to consume, cohabit and wrestle in more care-full ways with the Anthropocene ecologies that we are intricately and endlessly enmeshed in.

在本文中，我们探讨了后人文主义中的儿童去中心化对我们的研究实践、我们对儿童的概念化和与儿童的关系的影响。至关重要的是，我们探索了以其他方式接触儿童的必要性——追求非殖民化和去中心化议程。我们通过一系列交织在一起的故事来追求触手可及的探究——有些故事比其他故事更熟悉。正是通过对旧的叙述进行奇怪的叙述，关于教学文献、可持续性和环境教育以及儿童与“自然”的受污染联系的新的和意想不到的故事开始出现。本文试图将“后人类儿童”作为野性来动员，这是一种令人不安的中间状态，它邀请我们与受损星球上的生命疾病作斗争。我们讲故事的核心是回收利用，在挪威雷焦艾米利亚幼儿园发现的“天然”材料。具体来说，软木引导了我们。坚持我们将物质的非纯真放在调查的核心。我们这样做是为了说明女权主义新唯物主义以情境化、具身化、情感化的洞察力和挑衅性回应的潜力，这些洞察力和挑衅性可能会提供消费、同居和以更谨慎的方式与我们错综复杂且无休止地卷入其中的人类世生态系统搏斗的方式.