Granny Solidarity: Understanding Age and Generational Dynamics in Climate Justice Movements
Since the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, a global shift in consciousness has taken place around the urgency of the Earth’s climate crisis. Amidst growing panic, teenagers are emerging as key leaders and mobilizers, demanding intergenerational justice and immediate acti...
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ftbrockunivojs:oai:brock.scholarsportal.info:article/2235 2023-05-15T15:10:01+02:00 Granny Solidarity: Understanding Age and Generational Dynamics in Climate Justice Movements Chazan, May Baldwin, Melissa 2020-02-21 application/pdf https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2235 https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v13i2.2235 eng eng Brock University https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2235/1792 https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2235 doi:10.26522/ssj.v13i2.2235 Copyright (c) 2019 May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Studies in Social Justice; Vol 13 No 2 (2019); 244-261 1911-4788 Climate justice climate change intergenerational Age Aging Solidarity Race gender info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion peer-reviewed article 2020 ftbrockunivojs https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v13i2.2235 2021-07-21T16:16:23Z Since the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, a global shift in consciousness has taken place around the urgency of the Earth’s climate crisis. Amidst growing panic, teenagers are emerging as key leaders and mobilizers, demanding intergenerational justice and immediate action. They are, however, often depicted as lone revolutionaries or as pawns of adult organizations. These representations obscure the complex and important ways in which climate justice movements are operating, and particularly the ways in which dynamics of age intersect with other axes of power within solidarity efforts in specific contexts. This article explores these dynamics, building on analyses of intersectional and intergenerational solidarity practices. Specifically, it delves into detailed analysis of how the Seattle group of the Raging Grannies, a network of older activists, engaged in Seattle’s ShellNo Action Coalition, mobilizing their age, whiteness, and gender to support racialized and youth activists involved in the coalition, and thus to block Shell Oil’s rigs from travelling through the Seattle harbour en route to the Arctic. Drawing from a pivotal group discussion between Grannies and other coalition members, as well as participant observation and media analysis, it examines the Grannies’ practices of solidarity during frontline protests and well beyond. The article thus offers an analysis of solidarity that is both intergenerational and intersectional in approach, while contributing to ongoing work to extend understandings of the temporal, spatial, cognitive, and relational dimensions of solidarity praxis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Brock University Open Journal System Arctic Lone ENVELOPE(11.982,11.982,65.105,65.105) Studies in Social Justice 13 2 244 261 |
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Since the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, a global shift in consciousness has taken place around the urgency of the Earth’s climate crisis. Amidst growing panic, teenagers are emerging as key leaders and mobilizers, demanding intergenerational justice and immediate action. They are, however, often depicted as lone revolutionaries or as pawns of adult organizations. These representations obscure the complex and important ways in which climate justice movements are operating, and particularly the ways in which dynamics of age intersect with other axes of power within solidarity efforts in specific contexts. This article explores these dynamics, building on analyses of intersectional and intergenerational solidarity practices. Specifically, it delves into detailed analysis of how the Seattle group of the Raging Grannies, a network of older activists, engaged in Seattle’s ShellNo Action Coalition, mobilizing their age, whiteness, and gender to support racialized and youth activists involved in the coalition, and thus to block Shell Oil’s rigs from travelling through the Seattle harbour en route to the Arctic. Drawing from a pivotal group discussion between Grannies and other coalition members, as well as participant observation and media analysis, it examines the Grannies’ practices of solidarity during frontline protests and well beyond. The article thus offers an analysis of solidarity that is both intergenerational and intersectional in approach, while contributing to ongoing work to extend understandings of the temporal, spatial, cognitive, and relational dimensions of solidarity praxis. |
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Granny Solidarity: Understanding Age and Generational Dynamics in Climate Justice Movements |
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Granny Solidarity: Understanding Age and Generational Dynamics in Climate Justice Movements |
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