Engaging youth as climate actors : place-specific explorations of climate justice in action
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Melchior, Fabiola
issued: 2024-07-10T18:40:03Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis explores how youth climate actors engage with the concept of Climate Justice (CJ) in a place-specific context. The research is guided by the questions: How do youth climate actors understand CJ? And how is this understanding of CJ informed by place to impact strategies for climate action? Employing youth-led participatory action research (YPAR), data collection took place through a research workshop and one-on-one interviews with youth members of the University of California Santa Cruz Climate Coalition on unceded territories of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. This thesis makes methodological, theoretical and substantive contributions to the scholarly and community-based conversations around the intersections of CJ and place. The results of this paper-based thesis are organized in two chapters that constitute stand-alone papers and address the main research objectives. Chapter 2 of this thesis shares methodological considerations as well as personal embodied experiences of the research process, seeking to make applying YPAR methodologies more accessible to fellow youth and young researchers. Chapter 3 then explores how CJ is employed in place-specific ways to understand its efficacy in localized contexts. Chapters 2 and 3 both cover aspects of practically engaging youth climate activists in exploring tools to investigate local CJ issues and communicate resulting demands to decision-makers to drive change in their communities. With this thesis, I bring youth-led methodologies, CJ-oriented action and place-based explorations into conversation with each other to encourage further reflection on strengths, challenges and responsibilities found at the intersections of doing place-specific CJ action as youth.
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note: ENGAGING YOUTH AS CLIMATE ACTORS: PLACE-SPECIFIC EXPLORATIONS OF CLIMATE JUSTICE IN ACTION by Fabiola Melchior B.Sc., Leiden University College The Hague, 2022 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Community Engagement, Social Change and Equity) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) July 2024 © Fabiola Melchior, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: Engaging Youth as Climate Actors: Place-specific Explorations of Climate Justice in Action submitted by Fabiola Melchior in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Examining Committee: Dr. Onyx Sloan Morgan, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisor Dr. Astrida Neimanis, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Mary Stockdale, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Leyton Schnellert, The University of British Columbia (Vancouver) University Examiner iii Abstract This thesis explores how youth climate actors engage with the concept of Climate Justice (CJ) in a place-specific context. The research is guided by the questions: How do youth climate actors understand CJ? And how is this understanding of CJ informed by place to impact strategies for climate action? Employing youth-led participatory action research (YPAR), data collection took place through a research workshop and one-on-one interviews with youth members of the University of California Santa Cruz Climate Coalition on unceded territories of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. This thesis makes methodological, theoretical and substantive contributions to the scholarly and community-based conversations around the intersections of CJ and place. The results of th…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0444118
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Sloan Morgan, Onyx
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88615