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Heather McKnight deposited ‘The Oceans are Rising and So Are We’: Exploring Utopian Discourses in the School Strike For Climate Movement in the group
Utopian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article offers some provisional analyses of the discourses presented by participants in the School Strike for Climate movement, which (since it began in 2018) has been organised variously under the banners Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate.1 This paper contends that the movement goes beyond just…[Read more]
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Heather McKnight deposited ‘The Oceans are Rising and So Are We’: Exploring Utopian Discourses in the School Strike For Climate Movement in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article offers some provisional analyses of the discourses presented by participants in the School Strike for Climate movement, which (since it began in 2018) has been organised variously under the banners Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate.1 This paper contends that the movement goes beyond just…[Read more]
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Heather McKnight deposited ‘The Oceans are Rising and So Are We’: Exploring Utopian Discourses in the School Strike For Climate Movement on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
This article offers some provisional analyses of the discourses presented by participants in the School Strike for Climate movement, which (since it began in 2018) has been organised variously under the banners Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate.1 This paper contends that the movement goes beyond just…[Read more]
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Heather McKnight's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
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Heather McKnight deposited Chaos and hope: nano-utopian moments of activist self-organisation in the group
Utopian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoArguably, chaos and entropy are adaptive to activism and utopian theory; they trouble normative approaches to temporal progress, applying a non-linear and emergent approach to thinking about activism and possibility. […] This initial exploratory definition of the nano-utopian describes moments that are fractions of […] micro- utopian…[Read more]
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Heather McKnight deposited Chaos and hope: nano-utopian moments of activist self-organisation on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Arguably, chaos and entropy are adaptive to activism and utopian theory; they trouble normative approaches to temporal progress, applying a non-linear and emergent approach to thinking about activism and possibility. […] This initial exploratory definition of the nano-utopian describes moments that are fractions of […] micro- utopian…[Read more]
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Heather McKnight deposited The Sussex campus ‘Forever Strike’: estrangement, resistance and utopian temporality in the group
Utopian Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe 2018 strike undertaken by academics working in the UK was the largest called in University and College Union history, lasting for fourteen days over 4 weeks, with 88% of members voting for strike action across 64 universities.[1] This article explores how the campus at the University of Sussex during the time of this strike became a strange,…[Read more]
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Heather McKnight deposited The Sussex campus ‘Forever Strike’: estrangement, resistance and utopian temporality on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
The 2018 strike undertaken by academics working in the UK was the largest called in University and College Union history, lasting for fourteen days over 4 weeks, with 88% of members voting for strike action across 64 universities.[1] This article explores how the campus at the University of Sussex during the time of this strike became a strange,…[Read more]
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Heather McKnight's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago