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The Youth Climate Uprising : From the School Strike Movement to an Ecophilosophy of Democracy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fopp, David.
Other Authors: Axelsson, Isabelle., Tille, Loukina.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:X-Texte Zu Kultur und Gesellschaft Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Timeline
  • 2018
  • 20th of August, Monday
  • 7th of September, Saturday
  • 8th of September, Sunday
  • 13th of September, Friday
  • October
  • 31st of October, Wednesday
  • 17th of November, Saturday
  • 30th of November, Friday
  • 9th of December, Sunday
  • 12th of December, Wednesday
  • 21st of December, Friday
  • 2019
  • 18th of January, Friday
  • 25th of January, Friday
  • 12th of February, Tuesday
  • 15th of February, Friday
  • 13th of March, Wednesday
  • 15th of March, Friday
  • 15th of April, Monday
  • 29th of April, Monday
  • 24th of May, Friday (the weekend of the EU elections)
  • 4th‑9th of August
  • 20th to 27th of September
  • 23rd of September, Tuesday
  • 7th of October, Monday
  • 29th of November and 6th of December
  • 2nd‑13th of December
  • 2020
  • 21st‑24th of January
  • 4th of March
  • 16th and 17th of July
  • April to August
  • 20th to 21st of August
  • 25th of September
  • 2021
  • 25th of March, Friday
  • 24th of September, Friday
  • 22nd of October, Friday
  • 31st of October‑13th of November
  • 2022
  • 25th of March, Friday
  • 1st‑3rd of June
  • 9th of September, Friday
  • 11th of September
  • 23rd of September, Friday
  • 2023
  • 14th of January, Friday
  • 3rd of March, Friday
  • 9th of June, Friday
  • Introduction
  • On the making of this book - its structure and the people who worked on it, science and politics
  • Towards an ecophilosophy of democracy
  • The intergenerational challenge and the idea of a united, global movement
  • The task
  • The strangers
  • Part One: The Young People's Rebellion - From Mynttorget in Stockholm to the Global Strike
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Swedish Beginnings
  • Preparations
  • The strike before the strike - the first meeting
  • The beginning of Fridays For Future - on a Saturday
  • Mynttorget
  • A generation rises up
  • The invention.
  • The first young people join - the gang of rebels comes together
  • The task and the recipe
  • The Swedish parliament - opponent or authority?
  • At the university
  • Science and games - Mynttorget in September and October
  • Emil and Alfred - what is nature and what is healing
  • The first Swedish strike groups are formed
  • The big task and the small one - status and privileges
  • Chapter 2: Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion Start to Grow
  • How to organise a rebellion
  • The three demands of the global environmental rebels
  • Does humanity have unwritten laws?
  • Magic in Mynttorget
  • The global network is born - the digital heart of Fridays for Future emerges, along with the idea of the global strike
  • Chapter 3: The Foundations
  • The first speech in Sweden - the evening at Oscarsteatern
  • The basic principles
  • The scientists' task
  • Global perspectives and the unjust classroom
  • The idea of the emissions budget
  • Natural scientists are not the only kind
  • Winter sets in and the Mynttorget group doubles in size
  • Chapter 4: The International Movement Develops
  • A storm is coming
  • 30th of November - the first largescale strike in Australia
  • The COP24 climate conference in Katowice
  • On science, universities, and activism
  • The speech
  • The formation of "local groups" - the Swiss take to the barricades and demand climate justice
  • Climate justice
  • Making international contacts
  • The adults' reaction
  • The Christmas celebration in Mynttorget
  • How to teach commitment to sustainability - playing animals
  • The new year begins
  • Chapter 5: Davos and the World Economic Forum
  • Davos
  • Meanwhile, in Germany - the coal commission is meeting
  • "The house is on fire" - what would a prosperous society be? (On Kate Raworth)
  • Hijacking the university - "Rethinking Economics".
  • The problem with the basic economic model - what is wealth?
  • Criticising the basic model and outlining an alternative - what are needs?
  • On the peculiarities of the capitalist market economy
  • The economic causes of the climate crisis
  • Criticism of Raworth and Göpel - what the doughnut is made of, and what ultimately holds the world together
  • Beyond "well‐being"
  • A new logic: freedom, and integrity
  • Chapter 6: The Prelude to the Uprising
  • The global uprising emerges - the young activists are connected across the world
  • A homecoming, and a farewell
  • The conflict over the trip to the EU parliament in Strasbourg
  • The sensation - the founding of ScientistsForFuture
  • Chapter 7: The Uprising
  • The 15th of March - the day of the global strike
  • "Everything must change" - a new foundation for the UN charter
  • The occupation of London
  • Part Two: The Adults Respond
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: The Second Global Strike and the Preparations for the Week for Future
  • Chapter 2: Smile For Future in Lausanne and Scientists for Future
  • The meeting begins
  • The European network and Mont Pelerin
  • The fundamental conflict
  • The curse and blessing of the scientists - the facts
  • "Tipping points" and "feedback loops" - what is the state of the world?
  • The curse and blessing of science - the conflict over the basic principles of Scientists For Future
  • The basic principles for science and politics
  • A strike and a farewell
  • Chapter 3: The Week For Future
  • "The house is on fire" - returning to Mynttorget
  • The Week For Future, from the 20th to the 28th of September
  • Chapter 4: COP25 in Madrid
  • Changing direction
  • The global group comes together
  • The band of rebels doubles in size - the fossil fuel‐treaty idea and the three pillars of political change
  • Components and processes of the fossil society - a system theory.
  • Changing democracy
  • The basic model for making grassroots democratic decisions
  • Chapter 5: Corona, BlackLivesMatter and the Climate Justice Movement
  • Mynttorget is empty - the strike has been stopped
  • BlackLivesMatter, racism, and justice
  • What is intersectionality? A new perspective
  • How much justice is there within the climate justice movements?
  • Sustainability and democracy - a systemic approach
  • What is the core of the new politics? The young activists and scientists write their manifestos
  • The S4F statement on the new EU climate law
  • Back at Mynttorget
  • Chapter 6: Many Fights, One Heart - UprootTheSystem
  • How is everything connected: forests, finance, and fuel?
  • Deforestation and the life of the forests
  • Humans as double creatures
  • Back in the forest - "blah blah blah"
  • Agriculture - the EU's CAP ("Common Agricultural Policy")
  • The financial system
  • Legislation and legal cases
  • The Scientists For Future meet
  • Substantial and formal democracy - a new approach
  • Domination and care
  • The outline of a solution
  • The basic phenomenon
  • Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
  • The decisions of the German Constitutional Court and the EU: setbacks and progress
  • People For Future and the "Theory of Change"
  • The pinecones and the global strike
  • The manifesto
  • Chapter 7: The Idea of Social Movements and the Journey to Glasgow - What Is the Right Way to Live?
  • The two worlds
  • Challenges for movements
  • How to change history
  • The logic of substantial democracy - what is a grassroots movement?
  • Challenges in Glasgow - unequal, but still equal
  • The development of Fridays For Future
  • How organisations can work together with children - new rules
  • More than "civil society"
  • The "blue zone" and the negotiations in the COP rooms
  • Back from Glasgow - on questions about the class society.
  • What distinguishes transformative grassroots movements - a new theory (on social logic, organisation, and communication)
  • Fear and (informal) power
  • Can we delegate climate activism?
  • The new year begins
  • Chapter 8: The War, Fuel, and the Global Social Contract
  • The war and the new world order
  • Solidarity
  • Ideas about a new order
  • The Fossil Fuel Treaty group and the social contract
  • A new scenario - the four secret rooms
  • What about the UN Security Council?
  • The idea of a second chamber - cosmopolitanism and global democracy
  • Geoengineering: the balloon stays on the ground
  • The five dimensions of convivialism
  • Nature as property or as "commons"
  • Two interpretations
  • The poster, the police officer, and the UN conference
  • Chapter 9: Education in Times of Crisis - Learning from Young People on the Way to "Centres of Sustainability"
  • At the university - a story and a fundamental challenge
  • The idea - sustainability centres as the core of education
  • The rebellion of the scientists
  • The core of a centre for sustainability - "regenerative metabolism"
  • Back to Glasgow - the "Faculty For A Future"
  • A tour through the rooms of the prototype centre
  • Room 1: A different understanding of animals
  • Room 2: The animal which can lose contact - the human spirit and imagination (the neuropsychological foundation of "being connected/democratic exchange")
  • Room 3: The democratic animal - forming bonds (the socio‑psychological foundation of "being connected")
  • Room 4: Nonviolent communication
  • Room 5: Alexander Technique and improvisation (the physiological foundation of "being connected")
  • Room 6: Creating social spaces democratically (the social foundation of "being connected" and meeting on equal footing).
  • Room 7: Sustainable exchange in all sectors and areas of work (the interactive foundation of "being connected").

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