This Youth Knowledge Book invites the readers – young people, activists, youth workers, educators, researchers and policy makers – to find a way forward to a more sustainable and just society.
This publication explores young people’s experiences of the climate crisis and their actions. It comprises seven chapters containing contributions from different authors divided into two parts. The first section explores how young people are engaging in environmental politics, while the second considers how the youth sector could respond to the climate crisis and support young people in their environmental activism across Europe and beyond. The publication also highlights some of the emerging issues related to the climate crisis, such as recognising the unequal impact of climate change on different groups of young people, questions of intergenerational solidarity, links between climate denialism and populism, the rise of eco-anxiety (and other emotions) and, finally, the blurring of the dichotomy between humans and nature.
INTRODUCTION Jamie Gorman and Tomi Kiilakoski
SECTION I. YOUNG PEOPLE’S CLIMATE ACTIVISM CHAPTER 1. FROM GEZI TO THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY: EXPLORING TURKISH GRASS-ROOTS YOUTH CLIMATE ACTIVISM
Carlos Ortega Sánchez, Burcu Dolanbay and Anna Montraveta Riu
CHAPTER 2. THE CHALLENGES OF THE GREEN TRANSITION FOR YOUTH IN RURAL FRANCE: ADDRESSING DISCONTENT, BUILDING A JUST TRANSITION
Théodore Tallent
CHAPTER 3. CO-RESEARCH THROUGH ART-BASED ACTION ENHANCING YOUNG PEOPLE’S CLIMATE CITIZENSHIP
Jarmo Rinne, Timo Jokela, Mirja Hiltunen, Korinna Korsström-Magga and Aki Lintumäki
CHAPTER 4. YOUTH AT INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS: PROFILES, MOTIVATIONS AND IMPACTS
Yi hyun Kang, Riham Helmy and Amandine Orsini
SECTION II. THE ROLE OF THE YOUTH SECTOR IN THE RESPONSE TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS CHAPTER 5. YOUTH WORK AND CLIMATE EMOTIONS
Panu Pihkala
CHAPTER 6. REDEFINE AND RE-ENGAGE: THE ROLE OF THE YOUTH SECTOR IN EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE TO ADVANCE JUST CLIMATE ACTION
Neringa Tumėnaitė, Isabelle Eberz, Richard Francis Apeh, Manal Benani, Amrita DasGupta and Nilendra Nair
CHAPTER 7. GLOBAL YOUTH WORK IS GOOD YOUTH WORK – THE ROLE OF THE YOUTH SECTOR IN IRELAND IN RESPONDING TO THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Eimear Manning and Valerie Duffy
CHAPTER 8. CONCLUSION – EMERGING THEMES FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET
Lana Pasic and Esther Vallado
EDITORS’ AND AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
