School Strike 4 climate : Australian students renegotiating citizenship

Philippa Collin, Ingrid Matthews

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Abstract

In this chapter, we have shared one account of the School Strike 4 Climate. In doing so, we argue that this important school student-led movement can be understood and examined as a scene in which student citizenship is being actively negotiated. Situating the current moment in the context of a broader trajectory of school student politics in relation to sustainability, land rights, and climate action, we have reflected on the ways students’ “acts of citizenship” (Isin 2007) reveal more than young peoples’ calls for meaningful political action to address climate change. Our analyses of surveys and media coverage of the September 20, 2019, protest in Sydney help describe and explain what students did and how diverse adults and institutions have variously responded. Our analysis reveals how the dynamics of student individualized collective claim making is increasingly associated with intergenerational solidarities as adults rally around students to support their organizing. At the same time, we find that the “discursive violence” of the state through the media is also a powerful force at work in the “scene.”
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWhen Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools
EditorsJudith Bessant, Analicia Mejia Mesinas, Sarah Pickard
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherRowman & Littlefield
Pages125-143
Number of pages19
ISBN (Electronic)9781786611789
ISBN (Print)9781786611765
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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