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Research analysis of Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This research project analyses discourses presented by school students under the banner of the movements: Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate.\u00a0 It contends that these movements go beyond just presenting a vision of an inescapable future, or a simplistic request for adults to listen to science.\u00a0 Instead, their vision is constructive of a better world as they challenge the failures of politicians, and arguably the adult public, demanding to play an active role in policymaking when it comes to the climate crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research argues that this movement is constructed of a critical utopian discourse expressed through complex temporalities, which define the role of resistance as anticipation.  It considers how the anxiety in the Student Strike movement creates a militant optimism, and the narratives of cathedral thinking are demonstrative of an open-ended utopian process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article \u2018THE OCEANS ARE RISING AND SO ARE WE\u2019: Exploring Utopian Discourses in the School Strike for Climate Crisis from Brief Encounters journal<\/em>: http:\/\/briefencounters-journal.co.uk\/BE\/article\/view\/217<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Save the future’: lessons in practical utopianism from the School Strikes for Climate Crisis McKnight, Heather<\/a>.\u2009Renewal : a Journal of Social Democracy<\/strong><\/a>; London<\/strong>\u00a0Vol.\u00a028,\u00a0Iss.\u00a04,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(2020): 81-90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video essay work covering some of the key points of the discourse analysis is available here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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