Great Games and Keeping it Cool: New political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism
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Collins, RebeccaAffiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2020-11-30
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Drawing on recent framings of young people’s environmental activism as a ‘game’, alongside long-standing characterisations of youth as responsibilised environmental change-agents, in this Viewpoint I identify fertile research opportunities in the liminal spaces between moments of young people’s action and the political and socio-cultural spaces through which those actions (might) diffuse. I argue that youth geographers should take care to engage critically with young activists’ actions, as well as wider political and cultural responses to them, in order to avoid furthering problematic ‘sustainability saviour’ framings of youth.Citation
Collins, R. (2021). Great games and keeping it cool: New political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism. Children's Geographies, 19(3), 332-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1853677Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Children's GeographiesType
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on 2020, available online: doi 10.1080/14733285.2020.1853677ISSN
1473-3285EISSN
1473-3277ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/14733285.2020.1853677
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