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Young people’s conceptions of political agency in relation to climate change
Rebelo, Dora; Santos, Tânia Rita Silva; Garcia, Ana Dias; Carvalho, Anabela; Malafaia, Carla; Fernandes-Jesus, MariaThis article explores how young people conceptualise political agency in the context of climate change. Drawing on a Reflexive Thematic Analysis of 22 focus groups with 154 young people living in Portugal, aged 13 to 35, we identified four conceptions of political agency: transformational collective agency, proto-political collective action, individualised action and disempowered action. Our findings indicate t...
Climate futures and just transformations: Re-imagining future(s) within and out...
Rebelo, Dora; Garcia, Ana Dias; Santos, Tânia R.; Pêra, Leonor; Silveira, João; Amorim, Teresa; Malafaia, Carla; Carvalho, AnabelaIn this collaborative chapter, co-written by a collective of authors composed of young climate activists and researchers, we explore how young people frame their climate actions and build alternative political imaginaries in the context of climate change. Our discussion is drawn from the reflections and lived experiences of young climate activists and empirical findings from several focus groups with young clim...
Prioritising communities: barriers to climate activism and political imaginatio...
Rebelo, Dora; Garcia, Ana Dias; Santos, Tânia Rita Silva; Carvalho, Anabela; Malafaia, Carla; Fernandes-Jesus, MariaMinoritised youth voices are often underrepresented in climate action research. Despite the increasing interest in youth climate activism, there is still an overall lack of attention to the perspectives of young people struggling with discrimination, poverty, and other social injustices. In this article, we focus on a diverse group of minoritised youth in Portugal to explore their experiences of climate activis...
Routes of construction of knowledge, expression and participation: how do young...
Garcia, Ana Dias; Macedo, Eunice; Queirós, JoãoBased on the ongoing process of an action research in collaboration with young people from peripheral neighbourhoods in the city of Porto (Portugal), this article presents the results of a set of sessions of musical and theatre co-creation with two participating groups. The starting point of this collaborative research is to reflect and debate the assumption that young people do not participate politically. We ...