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Climate Future Fiction
Project in collaboration with SDU
High school students and their peers are in many ways unusually aware of the impact of climate change on their personal lives (and futures) compared to previous generations of young people. High school students (and other young people) live in a time when the consequences of carbon emissions are increasingly difficult for politicians and governments to ignore. As a result, this generation may feel particularly ignored or marginalized by institutions that are supposed to represent their interests. For example, a recent study by Bath University in 10 countries found that almost 60% of young people (aged 16-25) are very concerned about climate change, and two-thirds noted that they feel sad, scared, and anxious when thinking about the future (Hickman et al., 2021).
At the same time, "Eco-stress" caused by climate change is only now beginning to be documented (Usher, 2019). This suggests that more work needs to be done, not only to understand this phenomenon but also to give young people the opportunity to express their concerns.
Climate Future Fiction allows high school students to creatively express their partially unconscious concerns, hopes, and fears regarding climate change (and its possible impact on their individual futures). As part of a teaching course in English, the participating high school classes will do writing exercises within the cli-fi genre, where they must first write flash fiction and then rework them into short stories. The researchers will then have access to the students' products, which they can use in their research.
https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsformidling/citizenscience/climate-future-fiction
Supplerende litteratur:
L. Jensen Survivor Syndrome https://widercontexts.systime.dk/?id=236 NB IKKE LÆST ENDNU)
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