scholarly journals Positive Youth Action Towards Climate Change

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Buttigieg ◽  
Paul Pace
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Past Life ◽  
Environmental Organisation ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This study focuses on the experiences of young people who are leaders of change in the environmental field. This study views environmental activism as a personal commitment towards pro-environmental behaviour. The motivations and challenges of such work are viewed as important to learn more not only about volunteering in environmental organisations, but also about pro-environmental behaviour. The main research problem was to explore these individualsí present and past life experiences, in the light of their activism, towards the issue of climate change. Narrative inquiry was chosen as a methodology for this research as it gives importance to experience and facilitates the study of an issue in all of its wholeness and complexity. The research involved in-depth interviews with three participants as well as living alongside the participants in an effort to build a relationship with them and to experience being an environmental activist. The participants were members of a local environmental organisation ñ Friends of the Earth (Malta). The outcomes of this study provide an opportunity for reflection on the factors that affect pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour and their implications on environmental education. This reflection will enable informed efforts to engage more young people in environmental activism. From the narratives produced, it is clear that there is no single factor that is optimal for promoting pro-environmental behaviour and environmental activism. These are, in fact, determined by a combination of interrelated factors.

Ethnic identity as stigma in life experiences of different generations: the case of Belarusian and Ukrainian minorities in Poland

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 1002-1014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona Matysiak
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Middle Generation ◽  
Life Aspirations

The main research problem addressed in this article is the pattern of reacting to stigma based on ethnic origin expressed by the representatives of different generations of Belarusian and Ukrainian minorities in Poland living under different political and ideological conditions before and after 1989. This paper is based on a qualitative empirical study that comprised 22 in-depth biographical interviews with representatives of Belarusian and Ukrainian minorities, who varied in age. The research found that while the elderly see their minority identity in terms of danger or threat, the middle generation perceives it as an obstacle in fulfilling their life aspirations in a society fully dominated by the Polish majority. The youngest interviewees seem to be the most willing to perceive their minority characteristics positively in terms of uniqueness as well as particular competences, especially bilingualism, which may give them an advantage in the labor market.

scholarly journals "Change is Coming": Imagined Futures, Optimism and Pessimism Among Youth Climate Protesters

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jasper Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

In recent years, two unrelated developments have opened up new opportunities for examining how young people relate to climate change and participate in climate politics. First, there is a fast-growing literature in sociology and youth studies concerned with the roles of imagined futures in social action. Second, and more recent, is an explosion of youth-based climate activism, particularly the Fridays For Future movement. In this paper, I draw from in-depth interviews with participants in the Fridays For Future protests in London in Spring 2019, arguing that in this case of youth mobilization, protesters relied on shared, overarching narratives about the future of climate change, albeit ones that allow room for some divergence in opinion. In particular, I examine how regular involvement in the movement influenced participants’ imagined futures. Drawing from studies of similar issues by Kleres and Wettergren (2017) and Threadgold (2012), and from the phenomenological concept of “orientation” (Ahmed, 2005; Carabelli and Lyon, 2016), I argue that regular and repeated participation in climate activism engenders optimism among youth. This opens new ways of thinking about the relationship between political action and young people’s anticipations of climate change, with implications for scholarship of imagined futures, youth politics and climate politics.  

scholarly journals The Environmental Criteria as a Strategy to Adapt Climate Changes in Iraq

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.20) ◽  
pp. 496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Abed Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Hot Climate ◽  
Environmental Criteria ◽  
Change Effect ◽  
Climate Change Effect

The Climate change appears obviously in the world, especially in hot climate regions like Iraq, because of their proximity to the equator and the geographical desert nature, which requires strategies to adapt climate change in effective ways. One of the most prominent of these strategies is the implemented of environmental criteria for buildings, to minimize the climate change effect. This research problem is that no obvious perception for the obstacles and the assistant methods for adopted environmental criteria as a strategy to adapt climate changes in Iraq". To solve this problem a questionnaire were designed about the main research indicators and delivered to the building industry practitioners. Statistical analysis were used to calculate the results, using IBM SPSS V23 software, the results find that the obstacles of application environmental criteria are economic, social, technical, and legislation. And the assistant method includes developing technical aspects, enabling human resources, cooperation with responsible authorities and decision-makers, and community awareness. The results indicated many recommendations for the local government, community organizations and the workers to implement environmental criteria as a strategy to adapted climate change in Iraq.  

scholarly journals Early-Life Circumstances and Late-Life Loneliness: Findings From In-Depth Interviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 609-609
Author(s):  
Elisa Tiilikainen
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Past Life ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This case study examines loneliness from the perspective of two older men, who were interviewed three times as part of a five-year qualitative longitudinal study on loneliness in later life. Both interviewees self-identified as feeling lonely “often” or “all the time” and had experienced loneliness also in previous life phases. The interviews revealed trajectories of long-term loneliness which were impacted by life events and circumstances in early life, childhood and youth. Two critical experiences were identified: childhood bereavement and sexual abuse. These factors contributed to emotional insecurities and impacted the ways the interviewees perceived their selves and their relations with others. The acknowledgement of past life experiences is important for the theoretical and conceptual understanding of loneliness and the development of different intervention strategies. However, more longitudinal analysis is needed on the cumulative disadvantages making people vulnerable to long-term loneliness.

scholarly journals Young Climate Protesters’ Mobilization Availability: Climate Marches and School Strikes Compared

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Rainsford ◽  
Clare Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Survey Responses

Although there is a developing strand of literature on young people’s participation in environmental activism, there have been few systematic comparisons of their participation in different forms of environmental activism. This article compares the participation of young people and their older counterparts in climate change marches and Global Climate Strikes (GCSs). The agential and structural factors that draw people into protest participation are, in general terms, well recognized. However, it is also recognized that the factors that lead to particular types of protest on certain issues might not be the same as those that lead to different types of protest on different issues. In this article, we keep the protest issue constant (climate change), and make comparisons across different forms of climate protest (marches and school strikes). We coin the term “mobilization availability”, which is a useful way to understand why young people are differentially mobilized into different types of climate change protest. Our notion of mobilization availability invites scholars to consider the importance of the interplay of the supply and demand for protest in understanding who protests and why. We analyse data collected using standardized protest survey methodology (n = 643). In order to account for response rate bias, which is an acute problem when studying young people’s protest survey responses, we weighted the data using propensity score adjustments. We find that the youth-oriented supply of protest evoked by GCS mobilized higher numbers of young people into climate protest than did the more adult-dominated climate marches. GCS did this by providing accessible forms of protest, which reduced the degree of structural availability required to encourage young people to protest on the streets, and by emotionally engaging them. Indeed, the young people we surveyed at the GCSs were considerably more angry than their adult counterparts, and also angrier than young people on other climate protests. Our conceptual and empirical innovations make this paper an important contribution to the literature on young people’s political participation.

‘The Best of Times, the Worst of Times’: Young People's Views of Care and Accommodation

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Ward ◽  
Tricia Skuse ◽  
Emily R Munro
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Homogenous Group ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Past Life ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
Care System

There is much evidence of instability in the care system and poor developmental outcomes for looked after children, but looked after children are far from being a homogenous group. Their lives, needs and experiences vary immensely. Harriet Ward, Tricia Skuse and Emily R Munro present the findings from a recent study of children's views of the care system in England (Skuse and Ward, 2003). They explore what children and young people did and did not like about being looked after, why some found it a beneficial experience while others did not, and discuss the reasons for their largely positive responses. Ordinary features of everyday life that peers would usually take for granted, such as having someone to talk to or doing ordinary family things like going to the cinema, were identified as benefits of the care system. These views and the expectations of looked after children need to be considered in the context of their past life experiences.

scholarly journals An ‘inconvenient truth’? The problem of recognition of the political message – commentary to Huttunen and Albrecht

2021 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Kyroglou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
News Media ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
An Inconvenient Truth ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Political Message

  This commentary reflects on Huttunen and Albrecht’s exploration of the representations of young people’s environmental citizenship within the framing of the Fridays for Future (FFF) movement in the Finnish news media and on Twitter. In particular, it problematises the issue of the recognition of young people’s agency by their adult contemporaries, at a watershed moment for global environmental activism. It argues that although young people actively bring the climate change in the forefront of political discussion aiming to shape how environmental responsibility is being understood, the success of the movement will largely depend on the acknowledgement of their political message by its intended recipients; namely their adult contemporaries and politicians.    

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM: CONNECTIONS AND FRICTIONS BETWEEN ACTIVISM, LIFESTYLES AND CONSUMPTION.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma San Cornelio ◽  
Elisenda Ardèvol ◽  
Sandra Martorell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Field Site ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Research Account ◽  
Depth Interviews

Environmental crisis is one of the main issues on the current social, political and media agenda that has spread to citizens engaging environmental activism in many ways. This paper focuses on the emergence of a very specific type of environmental activism in social media that we named as “eco-influencers”. Drawing on our findings of an ongoing digital ethnography (Pink et al. 2016; Hjorth, Horst, Galloway, Bell, 2017) among Instagram profiles devoted to disseminate contents related to sustainability and climate change, our aim here is to explore some controversial issues regarding how they understand independence in relation to activism, lifestyle, consumption and work. We named these environmental activist eco-influencers as these profiles develop similar strategies as those that, according to Leaver, Hihghfield and Abidin as influencers are characterized by: 1) applying positive self-branding strategies, 2) managing their visibility 3) cultivating their community of followers adopting storytelling techniques consistent with their lifestyles (Leaver, Hihghfield, Abidin, 2020: 106). The fieldwork consists in participant observation in Instagram since July 2020 following the profiles through a collective research account to maintain interaction and expand our field site until we have an intentional sample of 60 profiles that allowed us to create a first typology and beginning in-depth interviews. In this paper we highlight some features that have been raised regarding their activity as activists and the very notion of “eco-influencer”.

Cosmopolitan Empowerments and Biographical Trajectories among Young French Fans of Hallyu

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (34) ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Cicchelli ◽  
◽  
Sylvie Octobre ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The Self ◽  
French People ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article explores the passion of young French people for the Hallyu, within the framework of an analysis of the contribution of the “consumption of difference” (Schroeder 2015) to the formation of the self through the figure of the 'cosmopolitan amateur' (Cicchelli and Octobre 2018a). We will first look at the reasons for the success of Hallyu in France then discuss the different forms of empowerment stemmed from the consumption of Korean products, among young people (74 in depth-interviews with young fans aged 18-31) with no previous link with Korea, which nurture their biographical trajectories.

PETANI KUNINGAN DALAM PUSARAN KONFLIK KELAS

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanang Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Soil Nutrients ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Cost Of Production ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Participatory Observation

Penelitian ini menguji teori Marx yang mengatakan bahwa dalam proses kapitalisasi, petani lahan kecil akan tergusur oleh petani lahan besar. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode Participatory Action Research (PAR). Menggunakan teknik observasi partisipasi di lapangan, studi ini melakukan wawancara mendalam terhadap petani. Analisis data yang digunakan bersifat induktif. Penelitian ini menghasilkan kesimpulan, bahwa teori Marx tidak terjadi di malar Aman. Adapun penyebab menurunnya pertanian disebabkan menurunnya unsur hara tanah, mahalnya biaya produksi, alih fungsi lahan dan perubahan cuaca. Sedangkan strategi petani lahan kecil untuk mempertahankan kehidupan yaitu melakukan pola tanam tumpang sari, melakukan pekerjaan tambahan, dan mengatur keuangan.This study examines Marx's theory which says that in the process of capitalization, small land farmers will be displaced by large land farmers. This study uses a qualitative approach with the method of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Using the techniques of participatory observation in the field, the study conducted in-depth interviews on farmers. Analysis of the data used is inductive. This study led to the conclusion that Marx's theory does not happen in Aman malar. The cause of the decline of agriculture due to declining soil nutrients, the high cost of production, land use and climate change. While the strategies of small land farmers to sustain life is to do the planting patterns of intercropping, do extra work, and manage finances.

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