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Malafaia, C. & Fernandes-Jesus, M. (2024). Communication in youth climate activism: Addressing research pitfalls and centring young people’s voices. In Anabela Carvalho & Tarla Rai Peterson (Ed.), Environmental communication. (pp. 303-322). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

C. Malafaia and I. M. Jesus,  "Communication in youth climate activism: Addressing research pitfalls and centring young people’s voices", in Environmental communication, Anabela Carvalho & Tarla Rai Peterson, Ed., Berlin, Boston, De Gruyter Mouton, 2024, vol. 31, pp. 303-322

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TI  - Communication in youth climate activism: Addressing research pitfalls and centring young people’s voices
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AB  - All over the world, young people have been engaging in multiple forms of climate activism,
performed through communication practices that seek to convey and construct alternative
meanings around climate change politics. In this chapter, we discuss the main trends in
contemporary literature, proposing new conceptual and methodological paths for centring
youth voices in climate activism research. We first identify critical pitfalls in the field of youth
participation which are related to research foci, assumptions, and practices: i) the old electoral
dilemma, ii) the behaviourist perspective, iii) the ever-search for the spectacular, iv) the
individual-collective dichotomy, v) the intrinsic benefit of participation, vi) the extractivist
research. We argue that there is a risk of reproducing these pitfalls when researching youth
climate activism. Therefore, drawing from empirical evidence (ethnographic, interview and
survey data), we propose three pathways to foreground young people’s voices and experiences
in climate activism: ‘beyond climate strikes’, ‘more than white activism’, and ‘not like adults’.
Finally, we discuss the potential of a conceptual articulation of political agency and
imagination and the need for incorporating participatory and visual methods. Such approaches
will lead towards a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics and facets of youth
climate activism.

ER  -