Young People and Stories of/for the Anthropocene

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: ASJE014 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee)

Language: English

The proposed session would invite participants to respond to a series of provocations that build on work by myself and colleagues in two recent edited collections: Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene, and Young People and Stories for/of the Anthropocene.

These provocations include: What stories can we tell of/for the Anthropocene? What stories can we tell with, for and about children, young people and the Anthropocene? How do these possible stories connect to, intersect with, exist in tension, contradiction, or ambivalence with the plethora of other stories about our pasts, presents and futures?

Stories that are told of/by/for capitalism. By ‘environmental’ movements. By earth sciences. By the humanities and social sciences. By children and young people. By individuals, groups, communities, By businesses, governments, organisations – the UN for example. By artists and activists. By First Nations peoples. By the colonisers and the colonised.

It is proposed that the session be recorded much in the format of a podcast - with permission of participants.

Session Organizer:
Peter KELLY, Deakin University, Australia
Oral Presentations
Unusual Travel Companions for the Anthropocene. Contemporary Enactments of the Iberian Donkeys.
Diego CARBAJO PADILLA, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Gardening School to Support Youth Inclusion and Environmental Sustainability: A Moroccan Case Study
Salma IDRISSI BOUTAYBI, Mohammed V University, Morocco; Tiia HARTIKAINEN, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Sofia LAINE, The Finnish Youth Research Network, Finland; Yahya BENYAMINA, CRASC, Algeria
Distributed Papers
Youth Engagement with Climate Crisis through an Immersive Documentary
Mine GENCEL BEK, Siegen University, Germany
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