Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times by Karen Malone Son Truong & Tonia Gray

Author:Karen Malone, Son Truong & Tonia Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

“And the other photograph?” I asked him. “That is the dog that sometimes gets beaten, the streets are dangerous”. Children care for and feed street animals. They told me they felt distressed when dogs and children were treated badly by the adults or strangers in the neighbourhood.

Fig. 11.2(a) Roof: safe place to hide. (b) Dangers of being on the street (Photographs by Diego, age 12, Cotahuma)

Juan’s photographs (Fig. 11.3) illustrate a child-dog journey far from neighbourhood streets into the upper reaches of the valley. The land is steep and, due landslides and floods, dangerous. Rubbish is often dumped here. Coco, his dog, is playing in a large dumping area for household rubbish, rummaging for food: “I don’t like rubbish and it makes it look bad and the dogs stop here”.

Fig. 11.3(a) Dumped rubbish. (b) Steep valley areas for play (Photographs taken by Juan, age 13, Cotahuma)

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