Conversations on grief and hope: a collaborative autoethnographic account exploring the lifeworlds of international youth engaged with climate action

Jones, L. et al. (2023) Conversations on grief and hope: a collaborative autoethnographic account exploring the lifeworlds of international youth engaged with climate action. Journal of the British Academy, 11(s3), pp. 69-117. (doi: 10.5871/jba/011s3.069)

Abstract

This paper explores the lifeworlds of international youth involved in climate and/or environmental social action, narratives that have been largely absent from a literature that has tended to focus on ‘traditional’ youth activists located in the urban Global North. Written as a novel collaborative autoethnography involving youth as co-authors, the paper a) collectively reflects on the stories of youth from different countries and cultures on their journeys towards climate action, and b) foregrounds an emotional framing to examine these experiences. The youth co-authors, whose experiences are the focus of this paper, form part of innovative international Youth Advisory Board, set up to provide peer support to youth new to climate and environmental social action, as part of our British Academy Youth Futures-funded participatory action research project. We examine the youth’s narratives exploring opportunities and barriers they have navigated, their inspirations and the intersections with a range of other socio-cultural factors.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Halstead, Ms Florence
• Authors: Jones, L., Parsons, K. J., Halstead, F., Ngoc Nguyen, D., Pham, H. T. M., Pham, D.-L., Allison, C. R., Chew, M., Bird, E., Meek, A., Buckton, S. J., Nguyễn, K. L., Lloyd Williams, A., Thị Võ, T., Lê, H., Nguyễn, A. T. Q., Hackney, C. R., and Parsons, D. R.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education
• Journal Name: Journal of the British Academy
• Publisher: British Academy
• ISSN: 2052-7217
• ISSN (Online): 2052-7217
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © The authors 2023
• First Published: First published in Journal of the British Academy 11(s3):69-117
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence