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The Youth Climate Uprising

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The Youth Climate Uprising offers an insider perspective on the fight for a globally just and sustainable society.
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  • 03 September 2024
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Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movements. Together with activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on how scientists and activists can fight for a just and sustainable global society. The volume also offers both an introduction to ecophilosophy and a unified science of democracy in times of interdependent crises. How can research in all disciplines – from (drama) education and economics to psychology – help with this struggle? And how can we all fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy?
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Price: $30.00
Pages: 426
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837670318
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

David Fopp (PhD in philosophy and education) researches theories of sustainability and societal transformation; as well as the theory and practice of education for a sustainable democracy by the means of drama-in-education. He researched and taught at the universities of Berlin, Wien, Basel, Paris (École Normale Supérieure), and Stockholm (child and youth studies, and drama education).
Isabelle Axelsson is a youth climate justice activist and studied human geography at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Loukina Tille is a youth climate justice activist and studies political science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Frontmatter 1
Editorial 2
Contents 5
Timeline 9
Introduction 15
The strangers 25
Contents 31
Chapter 1: Swedish Beginnings 32
Chapter 2: Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion Start to Grow 61
Chapter 3: The Foundations 77
Chapter 4: The International Movement Develops 95
Chapter 5: Davos and the World Economic Forum 115
Chapter 6: The Prelude to the Uprising 137
Chapter 7: The Uprising 147
Contents 163
Chapter 1: The Second Global Strike and the Preparations for the Week for Future 165
Chapter 2: Smile For Future in Lausanne and Scientists for Future 171
Chapter 3: The Week For Future 193
Chapter 4: COP25 in Madrid 201
Chapter 5: Corona, BlackLivesMatter and the Climate Justice Movement 215
Chapter 6: Many Fights, One Heart - UprootTheSystem 231
Chapter 7: The Idea of Social Movements and the Journey to Glasgow - What Is the Right Way to Live? 261
Chapter 8: The War, Fuel, and the Global Social Contract 285
Chapter 9: Education in Times of Crisis - Learning from Young People on the Way to "Centres of Sustainability" 307
Chapter 10: Global democracy, the Elections, and the Future 347
Contents 363
Chapter 1: What the Climate Strike Movement is About 364
Chapter 2: On the Relationship Between Young People and Adults 375
What a Global United Climate Movement Could Fight for 385
Epilogue 399
Illustrations 403
Bibliography 405