Conversations on Citizenship, Critical Hope, and Climate Change: An Interview with Bronwyn Hayward

Bronwyn Hayward is a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Bronwyn’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of youth, sustainability, and climate change. She is director of the University of Canterbury Hei Puāwaitanga Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination research group and co-principal investigator for the University of Surrey’s Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). She is lead author on two reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Her most recent publication is Children, Citizenship, and Environment #SchoolStrikeEdition. In this interview, Bronwyn and Sara discuss the complexities of educating for uncertain futures, specifically around climate change. We explore Bronwyn’s work with the IPCC, the Children and Youth Sustainable Lifestyles in Cities (CYCLES) project, and her foundational scholarship on ecological citizenship. This interview took place via Zoom in September 2020, in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Strategi penguatan kewarganegaraan ekologis pada Kelompok Tani Berdikari di Kota Banjarbaru

The low awareness of citizens to care for and protect the environment has resulted in the environment being neglected and damaged. So that a strategy to strengthen ecological citizenship is needed in an effort to keep the environment cared for and cared for. This study aims to explore strategies implemented in farming with the concept of loving nature and sustainability. This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study method that investigates carefully and in detail about a program, event, or activity. The results showed that the strategy of strengthening ecological citizenship that had been carried out by the Berdikari farmer group was through the implementation of the concept of safe, secure, and healthy in processing their crops and protecting the surrounding environment, and collaborating with stakeholders, such as the agriculture agency. The obstacles encountered by farmers who are members of independent farmer groups in implementing this strategy are based on natural and economic factors. Abstrak Rendahnya kesadaran warga negara untuk memelihara dan menjaga lingkungan, mengakibatkan lingkungan menjadi tidak terawat dan rusak. Sehingga diperlukan strategi penguatan kewarganegaraan ekologis sebagai upaya agar lingkungan tetap dirawat dan diperhatikan. Penelitian ini bertujuan ini untuk menggali strategi-strategi yang dilakukan dalam Bertani dengan konsep mencintai alam dan berkelanjutan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode studi kasus yang menyelidiki secara teliti dan detail mengenai sebuah program, peristiwa, maupun sebuah aktivitas. Hasil Penelitian menunjukan bahwa strategi penguatan kewarganegaraan ekologis yang sudah dilakukan oleh kelompok tani Berdikari melalui implementasi konsep aman, selamat, dan sehat dalam mengolah hasil taninya serta menjaga lingkungan sekitar, dan melakukan kerjasama dengan stakeholder, seperti dinas pertanian. Hambatan-hambatan yang ditemui para petani yang tergabung di dalam kelompok tani berdikari dalam meimplementasikan strategi ini dari faktor alam dan ekonomi.

Ecolabeled seafood and sustainable consumption in the Canadian context: issues and insights from a survey of seafood consumers

The concept of sustainable consumption is a much debated practice that has been seen as an outcome of the emergence of ecological citizenship—a concept that brings together the citizen and the environment in a framework that is underlined by social justice considerations and incorporates a vision of citizenship that involves both the private sphere and the public sphere of human activity. This study examines Canadian consumer awareness and uptake of certified sustainable seafood. We introduce the concepts ecological citizenship and sustainable consumption as a way of framing our research. Seafood ecolabels may be a valuable tool in translating general environmental concern about the marine environment into more sustainable fisheries practices. We conducted an on-site consumer survey in the Greater Toronto Area and a nearby city. Our findings showed that in contrast to high levels of awareness of the importance of the marine environment and the sustainability of seafood, consumers had a limited understanding about the meaning of sustainability in the case of seafood, and little knowledge about actual ecolabels found in the Canadian marketplace. Attitudes towards the marine environment and sustainable seafood, understanding of the meaning of seafood sustainability, and purchasing behaviors of sustainable seafood were significantly different by some socio-demographic characteristics. Positive attitudes towards the marine environment and sustainable seafood and better understanding of seafood sustainability were significantly associated with the increased purchasing of ecolabeled seafood. Lack of understanding of ecolabels, limited information about product sustainability, and lack of in-store guidance were identified as key barriers to purchasing ecolabeled seafood products.

STRENGTHENING ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP THROUGH LOCAL WISDOM NGAHA AINA NGOHO IN BIMA REGENCY, INDONESIA

Strengthening ecological citizenship through the local wisdom of Ngaha Aina Ngoho by the Oi Oi Seli group in Bima Regency has given positive results in realizing environmental preservation. The purpose of this research is to analyze the strengthening of ecological citizenship through the local wisdom of Ngaha Aina Ngoho in the Bima community through the programs of Desa Oi Seli Desa Maria, Kecamatan Wawo as a group that upholds the value of local wisdom of Ngaha Aina Ngoho. This research uses a case study research type. They were collecting data using observation, interview, and documentation techniques. Data analysis used interactive analysis techniques consisting of data reduction, data presentation, and data verification. The results showed the strengthening of ecological citizenship through local wisdom of Ngaha Aina Ngoho, which was carried out through the Oi Seli Community consisting of; socialization of environmental awareness, reforestation of deforested forests and planting of protected and productive trees, empowerment of environmentally conscious groups, workshops and seminars and formulation of environmental protection regulations. The results of strengthening the value of Ngaha Aina Ngoho's local wisdom in the Bima community positively impact the environment, economy, and tourism. Meanwhile, the challenges and obstacles are still the minimum levels of public education and the ups and downs of members' enthusiasm in preserving the environment. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0893/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Unity in fragility: nonviolence and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic witnessed extreme forms of biopolitics, as well as the urgency to reconsider our relationship with the planet. Although biopolitics draws attention to the technologies of domination by public authorities, we cast the concepts of bios and politics in the wider framework of nonviolence. In this framework, bios is the set of practices (praxis) of ordinary citizens. And politics is power created by harm reduction, or actions in daily life that testimony the desire not to harm others or the planet. We leverage nonviolence at three levels, scaling up from the individual to social behaviour and to the planet. The first level concerns nonviolence as self-sufferance and as praxis to claim back the sovereignty of the body. In the second level, nonviolence is collective mobilization – building social capital, self-governance, and solidarity. The third level provides the vision of a diverse ecological citizenship with a sustainable relationship between human beings and the planet.

Ecological Citizenship Through Education and Management

The dominance of the Indonesian population in 2018 for the productive age group (aged 15-64) reached 67.6% of 265,000,000 people, with 25.2% adolescents among the productive ages. Adolescence seek new ways to redefine themselves (identity processes) and to explore new ideas and challenges, so it is important to understand how they influence others and how they could have an impact on their families, communities, and the world. This understanding will encourage adolescents to become political actors to take action (WTTA) by influencing society on ecological citizenship, which concerns rights, entitlements, duties, obligations, and responsibilities to ensure that ecological footprints make a sustainable impact. Adolescents need community and social support to develop this ecological citizenship along with their own identity processing and coping with their life struggles. The idea of this paper is to offer food chemistry education as an alternative health and nutrition information so as to facilitate the ability of adolescents to achieve the appropriate development for ecological citizenship. This paper aims to discuss how food chemistry education develops Indonesian adolescents as the future generation who will manage the quality of the environment by becoming ecological citizens through their various life struggles. The discussion will be based on a literature review.