What is it about?
This article reads Greta Thunberg's activism as following the example set by former youth human rights activists, combining a broad call for social justice with an effort to construct an activist identity.
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Why is it important?
This article is timely in assessing Thunberg's role in the climate movement globally from a life-writing point of view , the first-ever attempt to do that, as well as pinpoint the ways she undertakes activism as life writing in the sense of constructing a radically empowered self in the face of adversity, just like former young women have done.
Perspectives
The climate movement has spread rapidly across the globe in recent years thanks, in large part, to youth, and quite importantly Greta Thunberg's figure. Her iconicity resembles that of many recent human rights activists who have also turned to life writing as both a vehicle of expression and a form of self-construction.
Dr Ana Belén Martínez García
Universidad de Navarra
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This page is a summary of: Constructing an activist self: Greta Thunberg’s climate activism as life writing, Prose Studies, August 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2020.1808923.
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