Temporal tensions in young adults’ efforts towards influencing institutional climate action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12711024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Collins (0000-0002-5168-8429, Acting Head of Department, Department of Geography and Environment; Director of the Sustainability and Environment Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute, University of Chester, corresponding author), Tamara Hunt (Sustainability Manager, University of Chester), Jennifer Cox (0000-0002-1744-2599, Action Network), J Robert Cox, Jade Cox (Chester Youth Climate Action Network (Chester Youth CAN) Coordinator and Enhanced Partnership Officer, Cheshire West & Chester Council) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children s Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-3277 • E-ISSN: 1473-3285 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14733285.2023.2282038 |
| OpenAlex | W4388725771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
In this Viewpoint we draw attention to an overlooked tension at the intersection of young adults’ and older adults’ everyday life-world temporalities, and argue that this tension presents a considerable intergenerational challenge for the enabling of young people’s agency for climate action. We articulate the often-cyclical nature of young people’s everyday temporalities, especially for those within formal education systems based on year-on-year ‘progression’, highlighting both the benefits of such cyclical opportunities for involvement in climate action and challenges inherent to the necessary ‘moving on’ at the end of each cycle. We contrast these forward-moving (annual) cycles with the protracted, often non-linear chains of decision-making that characterise, first, the (older adult-led) systems upon which youth-led pro-environmental action seeks to have an impact, and second, the (also older adult-led) structures – of funding, coordination, legitimacy-making, and other forms of ‘resource’ – that enable and support youth-led initiatives. By narrating our negotiation of these tensions, we look afresh at the idea of intergenerational relations for climate action, not through the typical lens of age-based generational identity (and their synergies or tensions), but through the lived temporalities of younger and older adults, with their contrasting orientations to and responsibilities towards the levers of meaningful action
Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Grassroots · Legitimacy · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Youth Development and Social Support · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |