News coverage of the School Strike for Climate movement in Australia: the politics of representing young strikers’ emotions

Mayes, Eve; Hartup, Michael

doi:10.1080/13676261.2021.1929887

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“…The concerns of this paper were sparked during a corpus analysis study of newspaper and online newspaper articles covering the School Strikes 4 Climate in Australia between 1 August 2018 and 31 December 2019. A substantive account of the methodology and findings from this analysis is discussed elsewhere (Mayes and Hartup, 2021, 2022). In this article, we summarise regional and rural news sources in the corpus and foreground the thematic findings relating to regional and rural reporting, as a context for this small-scale interview study with purposively selected regional and rural journalists.…”

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“…The corpus included news stories, feature articles, opinion pieces/commentaries and letters to the editor. In all, 500 articles met the inclusion criteria (see Mayes and Hartup, 2021 for details).…”

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“…In 2018 and 2019, school aged students walked out of school globally and across Australia – including in many country areas – to protest against government inaction on climate change. The Australian student strikers were part of a protest movement variously known as Fridays for Future, Youth Strike for Climate or School Strike 4 Climate (Mayes and Hartup, 2021). School strikers across the world have called for leaders to take urgent action on climate change to ensure ‘a future’ for themselves and the world (Wahlström et al, 2019).…”

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“…We then unpack climate change journalism’s ethical orientation towards advocacy, drawing synergies between this thinking and the widely acknowledged advocacy role of local journalism. The empirical sections summarise the findings from a corpus media analysis by Mayes and Hartup (2021) that prompted interviews with selected regional journalists on their coverage of climate change during the school climate strikes. We then discuss the deep tensions between normative and advocacy journalism in relation to reporting on climate change in regional and rural Australia, examining how local journalists feel constrained in advocating on climate in their reporting work.…”

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The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia

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Mayes

Hess

et al. 2022

Media, Culture & Society

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Climate activists and environmental communicators stress that addressing the climate crisis requires both global and local advocacy for transformational change-making. While journalists in small, rural communities are known to actively advocate on issues for the common good, there has been little investigation of local media advocacy on climate change in rural Australia: a region at the forefront of global heating. This paper analyses the accounts of local journalists of their media coverage of the School Strikes 4 Climate in rural and regional Australia, as an empirical entry point for a conceptual discussion of local media advocacy in reporting climate change. We find that normative ideas about journalism coupled with polarised community views on climate change hindered these journalists from taking an advocacy stance. We explore and critique the tacit ‘quiet advocacy’ practices used by these journalists reporting on climate in rural and regional Australia.

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The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia

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“…At the start of 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was unfolding, we placed the call for submissions for this special issue to provide a space to closely consider the educational dimensions of the school strikes. Central to our concerns was the persistent and pervasive dismissal of children's climate knowledge and political agency perpetuated in some climate change education research, commonly apparent in deficit-based studies that seek to quantify students' lack of knowledge, concern and/or action (Mayes & Hartup, 2021;Rousell & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, 2020). We specified in the call for papers that we were primarily interested in research that emphasised young people's sophisticated and nuanced abilities as informed and agile social activists.…”

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School strike for climate: A reckoning for education

Verlie

Flynn

2022

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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In this article framing the special issue on the global school strikes for climate, we ask: what if education is not the solution, but part of the system young people want to change? In conversation with school strikers and reflecting on the contributions to this issue, we argue that the strikes pose a reckoning for education. Five key themes emerge from this special issue: (1) students are striking because of the affective weight of climate injustice; (2) students learn through their participation in striking, in contrast to the often insufficient climate change education taught in schools; (3) young people are becoming climate change educators through their roles as strikers; (4) strikers are patronised through paternalistic structures (including schooling) that ostensibly exist to protect them; and therefore (5) we need to reimagine education. We then advance four propositions for education in response to young people’s modest demands for a liveable future: (1) young people are in and of the collapsing climate; (2) youth voices need to be taken seriously, without excusing adult and collective responsibilities; (3) multigenerational, more-than-human, intercultural collaborations must be practiced in education for climate justice; and (4) we must learn to navigate ontological uncertainty and attend to ethical complexity.

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Australian young people's perspectives about the political determinants of the climate crisis

Arnot

Thomas

Pitt

et al. 2023

Health Prom J of Aust

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Issue AddressedThere has been little focus on young people's views about the political determinants of the climate crisis. As young people are likely to be the group most impacted by political decisions relating to the climate crisis, it is essential to understand their views about government decision‐making.MethodsA qualitatively‐led online survey of n = 500 young Australians aged 15–24 years. Open text questions sought young people's views about current government climate policies, perceptions about policy effectiveness, and how governments could improve their climate responses. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to interpret and construct themes from the data.ResultsYoung people perceived that governments were not taking serious action on the climate crisis. They stated that climate policies were largely influenced by economic imperatives, rather than concern for the wellbeing of current and future generations. They perceived that governments had a duty of care to protect them from the climate crisis, and needed to engage young people in climate discussions and decision‐making.ConclusionsYoung people's perspectives about the political determinants of the climate crisis provides information about their understanding of government policies and their recommendations for action. There is a need for collaboration between young people and decision‐makers to urgently develop effective climate policies.So What?Young people understand key issues relating to the political determinants of the climate crisis. The health promotion community has a role in advocating for structural changes in policymaking processes to ensure young people have a seat at the decision‐making table.

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News coverage of the School Strike for Climate movement in Australia: the politics of representing young strikers’ emotions

Cited by 45 publications

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The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia

The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia

School strike for climate: A reckoning for education

Australian young people's perspectives about the political determinants of the climate crisis

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