Category: Collective action and social movements

Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why we need inclusive climate change education

by SCI Admin | Nov 9, 2022 | All posts, Climate education, Collective action and social movements, Sustainable transitions

Catherine Walker, Kit Marie Rackley, and Nerida Jolley analyse how climate change education can address rather than exacerbate eco-anxiety.

The other side of the fence: Consumption, activism, and the Owens Park tower occupation

by SCI Admin | Jul 15, 2022 | All posts, Collective action and social movements

Anna-Maria Köhnke explores the role universities and students play in the climate movement.

SCI PhD Alice Swift reports on a recent action by the German climate activist group ‘Ende Gelände’

by SCI Admin | Oct 30, 2020 | All posts, Collective action and social movements

Ende Gelände mobilised thousands in Germany in October, targeting both coal and gas and developing tactics to protect activists from coronavirus transmission.

School climate strikes: What next for the latest generation of activists?

by SCI Admin | Feb 22, 2019 | All posts, Collective action and social movements

Last Friday students across the UK (and the world) went on strike, leaving their lessons to protest about the lack of effective action on climate change.

Gilets jaunes, Extinction Rebellion and neoliberal climate policy

by SCI Admin | Feb 4, 2019 | All posts, Collective action and social movements

Two protest movements erupted in the UK and France on November 17, with apparently opposite logics. Matthew Paterson argues that both movements result from the the way carbon pricing has been both regressive socially and woefully inadequate in climate terms.