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Escaping Monstropolis: child-friendly cities, peak oil and Monsters, Inc

dc.contributor.author Tranter, Paul Joseph en_US
dc.contributor.author Sharpe, Scott en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:38:00Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:38:00Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.description.abstract In Monstropolis, the virtual world of monsters in the 2001 Pixar-animated Disney movie Monsters, Inc., the screams of human children are the source of energy. In this paper, the energy shortage (or ‘scream shortage’) depicted in Monsters, Inc. serves as a subtle and engaging allegory, drawing attention to the non-virtual world’s concerns with energy supplies, particularly oil. Peak oil, the time at which the global production of oil reaches its maximum, is arguably one of the most important issues that will affect the conceptualisation of children and our ability to create and maintain child-friendly cities. This paper derives new ways of conceptualising the relationship between peak oil and children in modern western societies, through a critical analysis of a number of themes from Monsters, Inc. The value of such an analysis is that in Monsters, Inc. the issues of children, lifestyle and energy acquisition and use are all brought together in a common problematic. Thus, the underlying descriptions in Monsters, Inc. provide a catalyst for a wider debate about children and peak oil en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1473-3277 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/35543
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other peak oil en_US
dc.subject.other child-friendly cities en_US
dc.subject.other allegory en_US
dc.subject.other film en_US
dc.subject.other Social and Cultural Geography (370402) en_US
dc.subject.other Social Policy and Planning (370102) en_US
dc.title Escaping Monstropolis: child-friendly cities, peak oil and Monsters, Inc en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.description.publisherStatement This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Children's Geographies 2008 [copyright Taylor & Francis]; Children's Geographies is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1473-3285&volume=6&issue=3&spage=295 en_US
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733280802184021 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty UNSW Canberra
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 3 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Children's Geographies en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 295-308 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 6 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Tranter, Paul Joseph, Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Sharpe, Scott, Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Science *
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