Children and Climate Change: Exploring Children’s Feelings About Climate Change Using Free Association Narrative Interview Methodology

Hickman, Caroline

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“…For us the destruction of the planet is personal". 13 By endangering and harming fundamental human needs, the climate crisis is also a human rights issue. Legal bodies recognise an intersection between human rights, climate change, and climate anxiety.…”

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“…But I don't want to live in a world that doesn't care about children and animals." 13 As a research team, we were disturbed by the scale of emotional and psychological effects of climate change upon the children of the world, and the number who reported feeling hopeless and frightened about the future of humanity. We wish that these results had not been quite so devastating.…”

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“…Complex and sometimes competing feelings are often experienced together and can fluctuate in response to personal and world events. 13,14 These experiences have been argued to be understandable, congruent, and healthy responses to the threats we face, but such threats can be experienced as an unremitting psychological stressor. 1,3 Substantial levels of climate-related distress are reported globally, 15 with children and young people particularly vulnerable.…”

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“…19 Interviews conducted with children in various countries between 2016 and 2021 found intense forms of climate and eco-anxiety. 3,13 Parents and educators also report hearing great concern about climate change from young people. 20,21 Quantitative research on a global scale is missing but is vital considering that contemporary children will live with the climate crisis for their whole lives.…”

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Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

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Background Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to climate anxiety. This is the first large-scale investigation of climate anxiety in children and young people globally and its relationship with perceived government response. MethodsWe surveyed 10 000 children and young people (aged 16-25 years) in ten countries (Australia,

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Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

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“…While this method is traditionally used in psychoanalysis to help patients get in touch with their unconscious feelings, when used in social sciences, it aims primarily to help the researcher understand a subject's experience deeply. With its roots in psychoanalysis, FANI has widely been used in psychology and sociology (Frosh et al, 2003;Roseneil & Budgeon, 2004;Roseneil, 2006;Gadd & Jefferson, 2007;Morgan Brett, 2010;Jimenez & Walkerdine, 2011;Arend 2014;Hickman, 2019;Aarseth, 2020;;Harris, 2020;Lukac-Greenwood & Rijn, 2021). In media audience studies, however, applications of this interview method are nascent; notable examples include Cohen's (2012) research on the experience of watching a female serial killer in films, Whitehouse-Hart's (2014) investigation of viewers' relationships to their favourite media texts, and Johanssen's (2018a;2018b) study of audience reception of the reality TV show Embarrassing Bodies.…”

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Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

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This doctoral thesis explores Vietnamese audience reception of soft masculinities, defined by the aestheticisation and romantic idealisation of male characters, in South Korean television dramas (K-dramas). Based on interview data collected in 2019, the thesis focuses on patterns of gendered desire, identification, and negotiation in viewers in their 20s and 30s. It highlights the popularity of K-dramas in Vietnam, which have established an enduring presence there since the late 1990s, overlapping with ongoing changes in gender relations following the introduction of the 1986 Đổi Mới (reform) policy, marked by Vietnam’s transition to a market economy and gradual integration into global trade. The thesis demonstrates how the spread of this “Korean Wave” is correlated with a changing local mediascape, the rise of a consumer culture, and a growing interest in exploring the self. In this thesis, I adopt the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method, which draws on the solicitation of free talk and storytelling and psychosocial attention to case studies in order to connect interview participants’ biographical details with their viewing experiences. The study is influenced by Judith Butler’s theoretical work on gender and performativity, as well as related material by scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. I highlight how a nuanced understanding of the viewing experience treats it as a complex process linked to an individual’s biographical details and explore how this process intertwines with larger sociocultural contexts, including local norms, Confucian values, feminism, Western gender images, notions of modernity, and globalised aesthetic ideals. The study reveals that although gendered desires and identifications are shaped by norms, they can also subvert them, and thus provides empirical evidence for Butler’s theories from a Vietnamese context. It also shows that desires and identifications that result from engagement with fantasy on screen may follow viewers’ personalised logics and open up multiple avenues for interpretations. Prominent themes of viewing experiences in relation to soft masculinities analysed in this thesis include escapism, parasocial interactions with characters, romantic imaginations, melancholic identification with romantic relationships on screen, desires for upward mobility, queer pleasures, ambivalence, and disidentification. The thesis thus contributes to contemporary Vietnamese studies, gender studies, psychosocial studies, media audience studies, and research on the Korean Wave.

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The Lessons of COVID for Climate Pedagogy with Young People: Learning to Navigate Urgency

Heinemeyer

2022

COVID-19 and Education in the Global North

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Children and Climate Change: Exploring Children’s Feelings About Climate Change Using Free Association Narrative Interview Methodology

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

The Lessons of COVID for Climate Pedagogy with Young People: Learning to Navigate Urgency

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