Not (just) a protest: the Youth Strike for Climate as cultural exchange and collaborative text

Bowman, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2866-1612 and Germaine, Chloé ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5187-8815 (2021) Not (just) a protest: the Youth Strike for Climate as cultural exchange and collaborative text. Research Report. British Council.

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Abstract

In this essay, we focus on the climate strike movement as an example of how young people are changing the world. We argue that this movement is more than a protest movement that demands environmental policies for a sustainable world. It is also, vitally, a global cultural exchange, in which young people and others exchange ideas, sentiments and solidarities. The climate strikes, we argue, are a movement in which young people and their allies share transformative visions for a new and better world. In this essay, we explore the practices of this remarkable movement.