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Temporal tensions in young adults’ efforts towards influencing institutional climate action
Collins, Rebecca Hunt, Tamara Cox, Jade
Collins, Rebecca
Hunt, Tamara
Cox, Jade
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2023-11-16
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In this Viewpoint we draw attention to an overlooked tension at the intersection of young adults’ and older adults’ everyday life-world temporalities, and argue that this tension presents a considerable intergenerational challenge for the enabling of young people’s agency for climate action. We articulate the often-cyclical nature of young people’s everyday temporalities, especially for those within formal education systems based on year-on-year ‘progression’, highlighting both the benefits of such cyclical opportunities for involvement in climate action and challenges inherent to the necessary ‘moving on’ at the end of each cycle. We contrast these inherently forward-moving (annual) cycles with the protracted, often non-linear chains of decision-making and action that characterise, first, the (older adult-led) systems upon which youth-led pro-environmental action seeks to have an impact, and second, the (also older adult-led) structures – of funding, coordination, legitimacy-making, and other forms of ‘resource’ – that enable and support youth-led initiatives. By narrating our ongoing negotiation of these tensions, we look afresh at the idea of intergenerational relations for climate action, not through the more typical lens of age-based generational identity (and their synergies or tensions), but through the lived temporalities of younger and older adults, with their contrasting orientations to and responsibilities towards the levers of meaningful action.
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Collins, R., Hunt, T., & Cox, J. (2023). Temporal tensions in young adults’ efforts towards influencing institutional climate action. Children's Geographies, vol(issue), pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2023.2282038
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Taylor & Francis
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Children's Geographies
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on 16/11/2023, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2023.2282038
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1473-3285
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1473-3277