Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram [PDF]
Memory StudiesThis article investigates the ways in which Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists discursively engage with the past, present and future on Instagram and leverage the platform’s affordances for mnemonic purposes.
Rik Smit, Sacha van Leeuwen
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Protest in the Face of Catastrophe: Extinction Rebellion and the anti-politics of grief
Suomen Antropologi, 2023 Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a novel environmental movement formed in 2018 which uses non-violent civil disobedience to communicate the catastrophic severity of anthropogenic climate change, protest for urgent action to be taken by governments to cut ...
Jacob Seagrave
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La cobertura informativa del activismo medioambiental: El caso de Extinction Rebellion
Revista Teknokultura, 2023 Esta investigación analiza el tratamiento informativo que los diarios El País, La Vanguardia, ABC, elDiario.es, Público y El Confidencial realizan de Extinction Rebellion (XR), un colectivo que lleva a cabo acciones no violentas con la intención de ...
Laila Daniela Fábregas Alemán +2 more
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Crisis, deliberation, and Extinction Rebellion
Critical Studies on Security, 2020 The environment is one of the political issue areas identified earliest in the post-Cold War context as susceptible to securitisation (see Deudney 1990), defined as a way of treating an issue that ...
James Heydon, Mike Slaven
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La construcción mediática de los movimientos juveniles frente al cambio climático. Fridays for Future y Extinction Rebellion en la prensa de referencia en España [PDF]
Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 2022 Este artículo analiza la representación mediática de los movimientos juveniles frente al cambio climático tomando como referencia sus principales organizaciones: Fridays for Future y Extinction Rebellion.
Ane Amondarain +2 more
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Social Media, Environmental Activism and Implicit Religion: A Case Study of Extinction Rebellion
ReligionsThis study explores the manifestation of implicit religion in climate change activism on social media, focusing on Extinction Rebellion (XR) in The Netherlands between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2023.
Ömer F. Gürlesin
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Big Data & SocietyRecent years have witnessed an intensifying debate on the deployment of emerging surveillance technologies in protests. Often discussed in terms of “chilling effects”—where activists self-censor due to fear of surveillance repercussions—there's limited ...
Majsa Storbeck +3 more
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Extinction Rebellion: Green activism and the fantasy of leaderlessness in a decentralized movement [PDF]
Leadership, 2021 This article interrogates the idea of leadership in a decentralized organization, using Extinction Rebellion (XR) as a case study. Through close observation of this environmental movement, we problematize the notion of leaderless organizations and question whether the idea of a hierarchy- and power-free ‘decentralized organization’ is a fantasmatic ...
Marianna Fotaki, Hamid Foroughi
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How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich
Local Environment, 2021 Extinction Rebellion (XR) has rapidly risen to prominence in the last two years, but in part because of the group’s meteoric rise, there are relatively few academic analyses of it.
Gareth A S Edwards
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Global Environmental PsychologyFacing the looming threat of the climate crisis, climate movements using strategies of nonviolent civil disobedience have recently attracted attention. To better understand what drives such groups to protest possibly in law-violating ways, we conducted ...
Amarins Jansma +2 more
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