Youth voice on climate change: using factor analysis to understand the intersection of science, politics, and emotion

Zummo, Lynne; Gargroetzi, Emma; Garcia, Antero

doi:10.1080/13504622.2020.1771288

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“…Sources such as editorials, speeches, interviews and other public domain material from youth Strike participants have been used to explore narratives in School Strike discourse, particularly that of influential Greta Thunberg (Han and Ahn, 2020). Similarly, for example, letters written by United States students to the office of the President demanding climate action have also been used to explore the movement (Zummo et al, 2020). Broadly, three key themes emerged from the writings: solution-oriented discourse, which included positive affirmations of community and government level climate mitigations; climate politics discourse, including advocacy for policy-based solutions and anti-capitalist themes; and discourse of doom, and the impacts of climate change on humans and animals (Zummo et al, 2020).…”

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Motivators of Participation and Non-Participation in Youth Environmental Protests

Feldman

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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This paper is an exploratory study investigating motivators of teenagers to both attend and not attend a climate change related protest event. Using open-ended surveys and focus groups, 16–19-year-old Australian students were asked about their motivators to attend and abstain from School Strike 4 Climate events. Through qualitative analysis and thematic coding, results show key motivators to attend a Strike include climate change and acts of political participation that provide youth with a public voice. Protest is positioned as a key part of teen political repertoires. Reasons for non-attendance included prioritizing schoolwork and low efficacy in protest or participatory action. However, low efficacy in climate change mitigation, or an outright rejection of climate science, was not evident in this sample. Overall, reasons for attendance and non-attendance at a Strike event were not direct mirror images of the other, and implications for inclusion of non-participants in further studies is discussed in this light.

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Section: Youth Attendance At a Strike Eventmentioning

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Motivators of Participation and Non-Participation in Youth Environmental Protests

Feldman

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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“…The contributions of these studies are remarkable and have made it possible to identify a range of emotions experienced by the public in relation to the current climate crisis. The most commonly emotional states that have been identified are ‘alarm,’ ‘concern,’ ‘doubt,’ ‘dismissive,’ ‘scepticism’ ( Brulle et al, 2012 ; Leombruni, 2015 ; Shi et al, 2016 ; Leiserowitz et al, 2020 ), ‘anger,’ ‘sadness,’ ‘guilt’ ( Smith and Leiserowitz, 2014 ; Chu and Yang, 2019 ), ‘hope,’ ‘fear,’ ‘anxiety,’ ‘compassion,’ ‘worry’ ( Myers et al, 2012 ; Ojala, 2015 ; Stevenson and Peterson, 2016 ; Nabi et al, 2018 ; Gustafson et al, 2020 ; Zummo et al, 2020 ) ‘anticipation,’ ‘disgust,’ and ‘surprise’ ( Loureiro and Alló, 2020 ). Although identified in the climate context, ‘powerlessness,’ ‘confusion,’ and ‘happiness,’ have been less investigated ( Aitken et al, 2011 ; Barnes et al, 2013 ; Loureiro and Alló, 2020 ), while other types of positive and passive emotions such as ‘optimism’ ‘calm’ and ‘indifference’ have not yet been reported nor analysed.…”

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Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador

2021

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Climate change involves multiple emotional expressions associated with specific labels, notably: ‘concern,’ ‘guilt,’ or ‘scepticism.’ However, there are other types of emotions that have been less analysed, such as ‘powerlessness,’ ‘anger’ and ‘confusion’ that are of equal importance for predicting behavioural changes toward this climatic issue. Likewise, few studies in this research field rely on qualitative data to understand and identify the causative agents for the emotional arousal. This research explores a range of emotions, mixing those that have been widely studied and those that have been hardly analysed. It also looks at the demographic parameters associated with such emotions using a population sample from southern Ecuador. The study analyses quantitative and qualitative data gathered through structured-questionnaires whereby participants were given agency to select and define how they themselves sense emotionally climate change. The results indicate that two of the five participants’ most selected emotions are shared with other nations (‘concern,’ ‘guilt’), while the other three have been less reported and studied in the climate change field (‘powerlessness,’ ‘anger,’ and ‘confusion’). These emotions were found to be aroused by different reasons associated with specific demographic variables. The findings reveal the role of the cultural and local environment in the emotional arousal and its relevance for designing more effective climate communication campaigns.

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“…Future qualitative research will explore issue-specific letters qualitatively to understand patterns in students’ arguments, beliefs, and calls to action (A. Levinson & Garcia, 2019; Zummo, Gargroetzi, & Garcia, 2019).…”

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“Dear Future President of the United States”: Analyzing Youth Civic Writing Within the 2016 Letters to the Next President Project

Garcia

Levinson

Gargroetzi

2019

American Educational Research Journal

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This article investigates the civic writing practices of more than 11,000 students writing letters to the next president in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. election. We analyze how letter topics are associated with socioeconomic factors and reveal that 43 topics—including ones prevalent among students such as immigration, guns, and school costs—were significantly associated with socioeconomic and racial majority indicators. Furthermore, we conducted a qualitative analysis of the kinds of arguments and evidence developed in letters from five schools serving predominantly lower income students and/or students of color in different regions of the country. Student arguments and types of evidence used were site dependent, suggesting the importance of teacher instruction. This analysis expands previous conceptions of youth civic learning.

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Youth voice on climate change: using factor analysis to understand the intersection of science, politics, and emotion

Cited by 36 publications

References 67 publications

Motivators of Participation and Non-Participation in Youth Environmental Protests

Motivators of Participation and Non-Participation in Youth Environmental Protests

Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador

“Dear Future President of the United States”: Analyzing Youth Civic Writing Within the 2016 Letters to the Next President Project

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