Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

作者：Kate Prendergast, Bronwyn Hayward, Midori Aoyagi, Kate Burningham, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Tim Jackson, Vimlendu Jha, Larissa Yumi Kuroki, Anastasia Loukianov, Hélio Mattar, Ingrid Schudel, Sue Venn, Aya Yoshida · 发表于：Frontiers in Political Science · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.3389/fpos.2021.696105 · 被引用次数：54 · 研究领域：Climate Change Communication and Perception、Youth Development and Social Support、Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

This article examines youth participation the school climate strikes of 2018 and 2019 (also known as #Fridays4Future), through an exploratory study conducted in seven diverse cities. Despite the international nature of the climate strikes, we know little about the factors that influenced youth participation in these protests beyond the global North. This matters because youth of the global South are disproportionately impacted by climate change and there is growing concern that the climate movement is dominated by narratives that marginalize the voices and priorities of Indigenous communities and people of color. In this context, the exploratory research reported here aimed to compare the attitudes of climate protesters ( n = 314) and their non-protester peers ( n = 1,217), in diverse city samples drawn from a wider study of children and youth aged 12–24 years, living in Christchurch (New Zealand); Dhaka (Bangladesh); Lambeth, London (United Kingdom); Makhanda (South Africa); New Delhi (India); São Paulo (Brazil); and Yokohama (Japan). Using cross-sectional data ( N = 1,531) and binary logistic regression models, researchers examined three common explanations for youth participation in protest: availability (biographical and structural), political engagement (reported individual and collective efficacy of strikers and non-strikers), and self-reported biospheric values amongst participants. Results indicate that even in diverse city samples, structural availability (civic skil...