Industry Expert Series
The Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience and Innovation Hub (TNQDRIH) has engaged with two leading industry experts Professor Roger Stone and Bob Shepherd to build a series of v...
First Keynote for Day Two of the CASE HDR Conference Dr Ann Lawless presents “Bridge Building for Social Scientists… https://t.co/G82tMOfC6K
10:20 AM Nov 25thSara Mohamed, PhD Candidate in Session Three - Perspectives from across the environment, presents “Rifts & Reconnec… https://t.co/vRXATQf6EX
04:39 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Nita Alexander in Session Three - Perspectives from across the environment, presents “(In)Action: Har… https://t.co/ec2rBGbBT6
04:06 PM Nov 24thMPhil Candidate Ellie Bock opening Session Three - Perspectives from across the environment by presenting “Biocultu… https://t.co/ehwtclWmTm
03:49 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Elizabeth Smyth finalizing Session Two - Beyond Language, Identity and Narratives by presenting “Writ… https://t.co/SvTg2K4hER
02:59 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Dom Orih finalizing Session One ‘Navigating Wellbeing’ theme by presenting “The feasibility of the Fa… https://t.co/D3VXkvujkn
01:09 PM Nov 24thPhD Candidate Rebekah Lisciandro kicks off Session One ‘Navigating Wellbeing’ by presenting “The Unbalanced Researc… https://t.co/kGANHi7kR9
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11:01 AM Nov 11thDr Musliharti presenting today in D3.063 - 1500h AEDT https://t.co/SgsY6x6TxT
02:00 PM Nov 10thYoung people are frequently relegated to a state of waiting; expected to passively absorb and learn an adult culture that actively damages the earth. Governments persist in relying on harmful fossil fuels, and corporations rake in profits while causing devastation to the climate and ecosystems. Nita writes ”While politicians ignore their political voice, young people refuse to stand quietly by.” Although young people have been a part of political movements throughout history, they are currently witnesses to a global-scale display of their environmental concern, demands for change, and deliberate solidarity. Their distrust in politics has led to a new form of participation which political sociologist Sarah Pickard (2019) has labelled Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) Politics. The lack of doing by power holders has led young people to take on the challenge to do it themselves, both individually and collectively. They are not waiting to be heard but are screaming from the street corners.
Nita’s research project, supervised by A/Prof Theresa Petray and Dr Ailie McDowall, allows her the privilege of listening to young people’s voices amid the chaotic clatter surrounding the climate change crisis. She is interested in French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice (1984), investigating habitus and capital in a field to understand a person’s action. Can this theory of practice be a theory of young people’s activism? Is it young people’s habitus, combined with their access to capital, in the field of politics that explains their action?
“Bourdieu’s theory of practice is a useful tool in examining young people’s activism. But evidence from my research project is pointing to the inclusion of a process of conscientisation, or critical consciousness, as per Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire (1970). When young people’s knowledge of the crisis becomes transformative, they develop knowledge of their power and capacity to act. From this point, we can see the manifestation of young people’s DIO politics.”
“As an activist, and a mother of young activists, I feel young people’s urgency. In interviews and at protests they have told me of their fears for the future, their disgust at being lied to on a structural and systemic level, and their hurt at not being taken seriously. They have also told me of the relief they discover when taking political action, and the comfort they feel in global collective solidarity.
And they have not lost hope. The time is now. There is no more time to wait.”
Images courtesy of Nita Alexander
The Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience and Innovation Hub (TNQDRIH) has engaged with two leading industry experts Professor Roger Stone and Bob Shepherd to build a series of v...
Young people are frequently relegated to a state of waiting; expected to passively absorb and learn an adult culture that actively damages the earth. Governments persist in relying on h...
The TNQ Drought Hub, Sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Enterprise (SATSIE) program are pleased to partner with the Western Cape Chamber of Commerce, Aurukun Shire Counci...
James Cook University Associate Professor and The Cairns Institute Fellow Robyn Glade-Wright is passionate about climate change and seeks to communicate with the greater public about en...
The Oceania region has an incredible array of ecosystems and biocultural diversity along with many threats to those. Safeguarding and effectively managing such ecosystems and the liveli...
Tyá Dynevor is a proud Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander mixed-race woman; born on Dharawal Country, Campbelltown, Greater Western Sydney but had grown up between Darwin, Larrakia&nb...
Ellie Bock has been awarded a Masters degree after completing her Master of Philosophy (Society and Culture). Ellie’s primary advisor was Professor Allan Dale and her secondary advisor...
Allan Dale heads the TNQ Drought Hub team that sits within The Cairns Institute and delivers the Sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Enterprise (SATSIE) program. The SATSIE&nbs...
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