Youth Activism and Fridays for Future: A Global Perspective

#### **Youth Activism and Fridays for Future: A Global and Intersectional Perspective** FFF since Occupy (2018) biggest and most important civil society actor new scientific perspectives are needed to analyze this phenomenon bc: - - - Aims: - - - - **Why Austria, Bangladesh and...

#### **Youth Activism and Fridays for Future: A Global and Intersectional Perspective** FFF since Occupy (2018) biggest and most important civil society actor new scientific perspectives are needed to analyze this phenomenon bc: - - - Aims: - - - - **Why Austria, Bangladesh and Uganda?** - - - - - Aim is NOT the comparison between the Global North and South - the South is inherently diverse (key reasoning for the selection) - **Influence of the political contexts** **Uganda:** - - - **Bangladesh:** - - - - **Methodological Problems of the Field Research on youth climate activism** sampling Interviews/Surveys: - - - - - -\> In relation to methodology, this meant that being urban centered in research approach would be biased toward city activists. Composition of the youth climate movement gendered composition: - - age: - - -\> methodological: exclusion of the uneducated youth activists in the rural regions **Many forms of activism:** - - - - - - [Question: Who is an activist in these contexts?] **Considering Positionality:** as researchers, two aspects emerge: - - - - - **Conclusion:** expanding globality to overcome the westernized domination in theory and empirical research global lens shows: - - -