Introduction

When youth ecological commitment is hindered by identity issues: the case of commitment visibility on social networks

“…For example, Friday For Future has been gaining popularity in many countries since that first strike; it is as well a reference regarding young people’s struggle to protect the environment (Wahlstrom et al, 2019). These ecology movements managed to take advantage of the Internet and social networks to create types of civic participation (Dahlgren, 2009; Muxel, 2010; Bobineau, 2010; Becquet, 2009; Caron, 2014; Pleyers, 2016), thus inducing innovative methods for organization and commitment visibility. These digital spaces become real organizational supports where ‘resilient information-communication practices’ develop (Sedda, 2015).…”

“…Young people are considered and judged by their peers on a daily basis through the signs and content they display online (Aubert and Haroche, 2011). Their presentations of ecological commitment can be found at different scales, both public and individual (Granjon, 2017), and they take ostentatious, silent, personalized, intimate or even invisible forms that would escape all expressions in public and physical spaces (Becquet, 2009; Pleyers and Capitaine, 2016). The issue of changes in militant commitment practices in physical spaces has already been addressed (Ion, 1997; Marsh et al, 2007).…”

Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue?

“…Although present in some mass protests such as the anti-war demonstrations of 2004, their ability to energise large transnational protests seemed to have gone. 47 A decade later, after 2010, a new wave of protest flared up in different parts of the globe.…”

La difficile prise en charge par les syndicats français de la cause des « jeunes travailleurs »

“…Ce phénomène a davantage été documenté par la sociologie de la jeunesse ou des mouvements sociaux (Becquet, 2014). C'est par exemple ce que désigne l'hypothèse d'une culture politique « alter-activiste » en émergence chez les jeunes urbains des pays développés (Juris, Pleyers, 2009 ;Pleyers, Capitaine, 2016). À l'image des zadistes ou des militants de Nuit debout, ces alter-activistes agissent à distance des organisations politiques ou syndicales et des grandes ONG jugées bureaucratiques.…”