Young climate protesters' mobilization availability: Climate marches and school strikes compared
dc.contributor.author | Rainsford, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Saunders, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-04T09:49:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08-18 | |
dc.description.abstract | Although there is a developing strand of literature on young people’s participation in environmental activism, there have been few systematic comparisons of their participation in different forms of environmental activism. This article compares the participation of young people and their older counterparts in climate change marches and Global Climate Strikes (GCSs). The agential and structural factors that draw people into protest participation are, in general terms, well recognized. However, it is also recognized that the factors that lead to particular types of protest on certain issues might not be the same as those that lead to different types of protest on different issues. In this article, we keep the protest issue constant (climate change), and make comparisons across different forms of climate protest (marches and school strikes). We coin the term ‘mobilization availability’, which is a useful way to understand why young people are differentially mobilized into different types of climate change protest. Our notion of mobilization availability invites scholars to consider the importance of the interplay of the supply and demand for protest in understanding who protests and why. We use data collected using standardized protest survey data (n=643). In order to account for response rate bias, which is an acute problem when studying young people’s protest survey responses, we weighted the data using propensity score adjustments. We find that the youth-oriented supply of protest evoked by GCS mobilized higher numbers of young people into climate protest than did the more adult-dominated climate marches. GCS did this by providing accessible forms of protest, which reduced the degree of structural availability required to encourage young people to protest on the streets, and by emotionally engaging them. Indeed, the young people we surveyed at the GCSs were considerably more angry than their adult counterparts, and also angrier than young people on other climate protests. Our conceptual and empirical innovations make this paper an important contribution to the literature on young people’s political participation. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | British Academy | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 3, article 713340 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpos.2001.713340 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/G011621/2 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | SQ140004 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/G011621/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/H018491/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/126655 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:110989 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 Rainsford and Saunders. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | |
dc.subject | Climate protest | en_GB |
dc.subject | Global Climate Strike | en_GB |
dc.subject | young people | en_GB |
dc.subject | political participation | en_GB |
dc.subject | mobilization | en_GB |
dc.title | Young climate protesters' mobilization availability: Climate marches and school strikes compared | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-04T09:49:13Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2673-3145 | |
dc.description | This the final version. Available on open access from Frontiers Media via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability Statement: The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found below: The 2009 climate march data used for this study can be found on the Data Archiving and Networked services website, available at: https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:110989. The GCS data is available on request from the corresponding author. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Frontiers in Political Science | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-07-28 | |
exeter.funder | ::Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::European Commission | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::British Academy | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-07-28 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-08-03T15:11:21Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-08-19T11:23:33Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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