Through the images and activism, the climate movement paints new political horizons. In the media, the young activists are often highlighted as talented and committed, but as the video documentation illustrates, this cannot be reduced to a cute story about talented young people, rather this is at the core of a politics about survival and a more just world.
Children and young people are today fighting for their future. Many of them do so in the environmental movement Fridays For Future (FFF). What started with a school strike by the then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg 2018, today involves people all over the world. Cries for Climate Justice is about some of these people — five young activists fighting for climate justice. Climate change is often spoken in terms of how it will affect the future of children and young people. But many young people are already living today with the consequences of a climate-changing world.
Hope and abandonment. Euphoria and rage. Feelings of power and of powerlessness. The young activists are fighting for the climate with mixed feelings. Here is a community and a joy of fighting for something important together. But also hopelessness and sadness over a fight that they doubt can really be won.
In Cries for Climate Justice, we meet activists in FFF through their own words and through their own images. Through the images and activism, the climate movement paints new political horizons.
In the media, the young activists are often highlighted as talented and committed, but as the exhibition and video documentation illustrates, this cannot be reduced to a cute story about talented young people, rather this is at the core of a politics about survival a more just world and.
Cries for Climate Justice is produced in collaboration with Tema Barn and Tema Miljöförändring at Linköping University and is part of the project Growing up in a Warming World which is supported by Seedbox: An Enviromental Humanities Collaboratory.
Contributing activists:
Ahmad Valy Niazi, Afghanistan
Hilda Nakabuye, Uganda
Linna Gadde, Sweden
Luis Javier Maguiña, Peru
Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Philippines
