Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey

Turkan Firinci Orman*, Seran Demiral

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This ethnographic study reveals how young people become environmentally aware citizens. The study traces the lived worlds of early youth in Turkey by focusing on their environmental experiences and by problematising climate change and consumerism. Through online mapping activities and in-depth interviews, the applied geo-social methodology explores the social, spatial and political subjectivities of 21 young people from different parts of Turkey, elucidating their developing environmental agencies. This article further argues how these subjectivities are contextual to the intersectional aspects of environmental socialisation. The results provide youthful insights into today's authoritarian Turkey, which is facing an economic recession.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1337-1355
Number of pages19
JournalChildren & Society
Volume37
Issue number5
Early online date25 Jul 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2023
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

  • environmental agency
  • youth in Turkey
  • socio-spatial socialisation
  • intersubjectivity
  • geo-social methodology

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