This article is based on a distinctive study that seeks to analyse the nascent role of teenagers’ activism and protests for climate change action. With the increasing realisation of children's rights ...to participation, the past few years have marked the rise of the new dispensation of climate activism and protests in which teenagers have occupied the centre stage. We pay specific reference to Greta Thunberg, a Swedish child climate activist, in as much as she can set a framework upon which Africa can draw parallels, lessons and insights for climate activism and protests. Even though the context may be different, the paper attempts to inform vibrant climate action through activism by children and ultimately climate policies, laws and management for environmental sustainability in Africa. We engaged document review and thematic approaches, and it emerged that children climate activism and protests in Africa are not as vibrant as they should be given the prevalence of climate inaction across the continent. Therefore, there is much to learn from Thunberg by pushing national governments and regional organisations to increase the decision-making space of children in the fight against climate change.
El objetivo de la investigación fue determinar en qué medida los medios de información publicaron contenidos relacionados con Greta Thunberg durante la cumbre del clima COP25 y cómo fueron las ...interacciones de esta activista con los medios a través de la red social Twitter, además de analizar el modo en el que los medios de información se valieron del personaje para aumentar su impacto en la red social. Se clasificaron los tuits publicados por los medios de información en relación con la variable mención a Greta Thunberg, a través de pruebas estadísticas no paramétricas, y se estudió cómo los tuits que mencionaban a la activista sueca generaban más o menos engagement que los tuits que no lo hacían. Además, se analizó si el engagement de los diferentes mensajes publicados por los medios lograban engagement diferentes en función de si estos incluían elementos multimedia, URLs o sólo texto. La conclusión principal es que los tuits que incluían mención al usuario @GretaThunberg generaron mayor engagement que los que sólo incluían su nombre, además de que la activista en ningún momento interactuó con las cuentas que la mencionaron. Por otro lado, los tuits con elementos multimedia y los que nos incluían URLs generaron mayor engagement que el resto.
Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined ...Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movements. Together with activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on how scientists and activists can fight for a just and sustainable global society. The volume also offers both an introduction to ecophilosophy and a unified science of democracy in times of interdependent crises. How can research in all disciplines - from (drama) education and economics to psychology - help with this struggle? And how can we all fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy?
The 2019 Fridays For Future global climate strikes were extraordinary protest mobilisations in many respects, both in terms of size, age composition and the absence of a specific external triggering ...event. To properly understand it, one must account for Greta Thunberg's leadership role in the mobilisation – the ‘Greta effect’. We contribute to such an account by linking the ‘Greta effect’ on individual mobilisation to theories of political iconicity and political role models. Empirically, we use unique data from two waves of international surveys of participants in European Fridays For Future protests – on 15 March and 20–27 September 2019 – demonstrating that the perceived individual impact of Greta differs considerably among those who were mobilised in climate strikes. Through multilevel regression analysis, we furthermore show that (a) young women were especially prone to have been inspired and mobilised by Thunberg as a role model and (b) subjectively assessed mobilising influence by ‘Greta’ – in her capacity as a political icon – is positively related to protest participants’ instrumental motivation, sense of solidarity and collective identity. We argue that our results contribute to a better understanding of informal social movement leadership in contemporary political mobilisations.
Burde Greta heller vært på skolen? Marlen Ferrer; Hedvig Skonhoft Johannesen; Annika Wetlesen ...
Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift,
01/2021, Letnik:
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Å fremme kritisk tenkning er en viktig del av skolens mandat. Det aksentueres i læreplanverket Kunnskapsløftet 2020 (Kunnskapsdepartementet, 2019), den såkalte fagfornyelsen. Men hvis kritisk ...tenkning også innebærer systemkritikk, i hvor stor grad er det mulig å praktisere den innenfor skolens rammer? Spørsmålet aktualiseres i klimadebatten, der det kan vise seg en konflikt i samfunnet mellom miljøinteresser og norsk energipolitikk, og dermed kan det utløses en konflikt også i skolen mellom systemkritikk og systemlegitimering. En slik motsetning ble åpenbar da statsminister Erna Solberg roste miljøaktivisten Greta Thunbergs engasjement etter FNs klimatoppmøte i 2019, men henviste engasjementet til en plass utenfor skolen. Er dette en uløselig konflikt? I denne artikkelen spør vi hvilke vilkår skolen kan gi for systemkritikk med klimasaken som utgangspunkt. Gjennom diskursanalyse undersøker vi hvordan kritisk tenkning presenteres i grunnskolens styringsdokumenter. Læreplanen synes dels å fokusere på kritisk tenkning som mål, dels som vitenskapelig-instrumentelt verktøy. For å forstå systemkritikkens vilkår i skolen, må de to diskursene ses i en samfunnskontekst, og vi drøfter dette i lys av sosiologiske perspektiver, primært hentet fra Gramscis, Bourdieus og Foucaults maktkritiske arbeider. Vår gjennomgang viser at sosiologien kan gi pedagogikken en realitetsorientering: Skal man mobilisere skolen i et systemkritisk prosjekt, møter man tunge systemlegitimerende krefter. Samtidig kan pedagogisk danningsteori gi sosiologien impulser til å tenke nytt om hvordan systemkritikk kan realiseres. Spørsmålet er likevel om skolen har begrensinger som arena for systemkritikk, om den nødvendigvis må videreføres i sivilsamfunnet. Med andre ord: om Greta faktisk må ut av skolen.
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate generation"-late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z-is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take ...immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet's environmental problems expect to encounter challenges, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise when they confront this seemingly intractable situation. Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an "existential tool kit" for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice.A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generation-and perhaps the rest of us-as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time.
Climate change has been one of the most significant concerns for the United Nations. As a result, the United Nations held a summit in 2019, inviting several notable speakers in the field. One of them ...is a young teenager from Swedish, Greta Thunberg. Greta Thunberg is a prominent climate activist who delivered a speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019, which is about how people and the government need to limit global warming. Her address became viral and garnered attention from many media, and roused a massive youth-led climate rally. Thus, this study analyzed her speech as the object of the study and employed a descriptive qualitative method. The study scrutinized 54 clauses through transitivity analysis from Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to understand the processes in the address and its function. This current study has revealed that the speaker’s dominantly used material process (37%) to describe the damage to the environment done by people. The use of relational process (31.5%) describes climate change's effects on the world and her life. The mental process used in 16.7% of the data provokes guilt and responsibility, as she pointed the audience as the actors that cause climate change. The behavioural process (7.4%) shows that Thunberg will not stay quiet on climate crisis when her generation is the one who will suffer from it. Existential process (3.7%) is used to describe the existing problems, while verbal process (3.7%) is used in quoting the high-profile politician to prove that none of their promises have been fulfilled.
In response to Huttunen and Albrecht’s article in this issue of Fennia we want to focus our commentary on the two key-findings regarding the media representation of environmental citizenship in the ...Finnish Fridays for Future (FFF) movement: individualised lifestyle choices and a dominant adult voice. This commentary dovetails into the authors’ critical reflection on the insufficiency of individual action alone in addressing environmental issues and the potential risks of a dominant adult voice for youth agency. By doing so, we will also touch on broader ideas of change within the FFF and climate change framing and aspects of (intergenerational) climate justice.
Greta Thunberg is the world's best-known environmental activist. She has been covered by the international press, featured on television talk shows, presented in music videos, and been the object of ...social media memes - a visibility that has made her a global celebrity. But unlike other public figures whose stardom is attached to, rather than driven by environmental activism, Thunberg's eco-celebrity is anchored to her role in starting a global climate movement. Her activism is youth-centric and her eco-politics highly confrontational. Focusing on English language media from around the world, this essay explores how Thunberg's rise to global eco-celebrity has been media-centric while still being remarkably resistant to co-optation within the broader terrain of climate change politics. Emphasis is placed on how Thunberg has used her celebrity status to take aim at the material realities and social practices that have caused the climate crisis, and push for radical and immediate change.
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