CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Kokkonen, Sunna Laura |
|---|---|
| Title | Teenagers' Guide to Climate Crisis: Climate Policy and Action Frames of German Fridays for Future Activists |
| Summary | Fridays for Future (FFF) is a youth climate movement, initiated by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, protesting insufficient climate action and policies around the world. So far, research and media have concentrated on describing the movement as youth, but not their political messages. This thesis will examine and analyze climate policy and action frames presented by German FFF participants, drawing from activist interviews and protest images on Instagram as research data. The rmaterial shows that FFF is not home to anything resembling a uniform worldview, but instead, features very pluralistic frames, suggesting a high level of ideological fragmentation typical to 2010s social movements. There is immense variation within all types of frames addressed in this thesis: the causes and the victims of climate crisis, how FFF participants view societal inequalities in connection to climate crisis, and the actions they regard as effective for climate change mitigation. The frames presented by FFF participants touch upon topical discussions in climate movement and climate policy literature, for instance, debates about antropocentrism and biocentrism, climate inequality between the Global North and the Global South, and taking action within existing political institutions or against them. The data also indicates that FFF participants are able to engage with both micro- and macro-level frames of action and policy: everyday actions and a big picture of the political systems. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/kokkonen_sunna.pdf |
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