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The Energies of Activism: Rethinking Agency in Contemporary Climate Change Activism [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis is concerned with the energies of activism, and uses an exploration of the concept of ‘energy’ to rethink the agency of activism, rethinking: what counts as an act, who counts as an actor, and in particular how action is produced in activism.
LEE, CHARLOTTE,ELIZABETH
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Simulation of Cloud Processes Over Offshore Coastal Antarctica Using the High‐Resolution Regional UK Met Office Unified Model With Interactive Aerosols

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
The Southern Ocean and offshore coastal Antarctica are key regions for global climate. Low level mixed‐phase clouds strongly control the surface radiation budget of this region but remain challenging for climate models because of the complex processes ...
R. Price, A. Orr, P. Field, G. Mace, A. Protat   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Response of Arctic mixed-phase clouds to aerosol perturbations under different surface forcings

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019
. The formation and persistence of low-lying mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) in the Arctic depends on a multitude of processes, such as surface conditions, the environmental state, air mass advection, and the ambient aerosol concentration.
Gesa K. Eirund, A. Possner, U. Lohmann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

Careers of Action on Climate Change: The evolution of practices throughout the life-course [PDF]

, 2011
Climate change has become a major concern for research and policy in recent decades, and individual behaviour change has constituted a significant strand within UK Government responses to the problem.
Hards, Sarah
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Toward just climate change coalitions: Challenges and possibilities in the Step It Up 2007 campaign

, 2009
Climate change is one of the most significant environmental issues of our time. As is the case for the environmental movement in general, social activism is a crucial venue in which to advocate for policies to slow global warming and mitigate the effects
Tracylee Clarke
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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

SNOWMIP2: An evaluation of forest snow process simulation [PDF]

, 2009
The Northern Hemisphere has large areas that are forested and seasonally snow covered. Compared with open areas, forest canopies strongly influence interactions between the atmosphere and snow on the ground by sheltering the snow from wind and solar ...
Essery, Richard, Baxter, Robert, Bartlett, P., Essery, Richard; id_orcid, Gustafsson, David, Baxter, R., Pomeroy, J., Barr, Alan, Barr, A., Elder, Kelly, Bartlett, Paul, Elder, K., Rutter, Nick, Stahli, Manfred, Rutter, N., Stähli, M., Gustafsson, D., Gustafsson, David,, Essery, R., Pomeroy, John   +19 more
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‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source