An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sarah Dimick (Environmental Humanities Fellow, 2024)
Juvenilia of the Climate Movement
Examining the Ugandan writer activist Vanessa Nakate’s A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis (2021) in relation to other books written by young climate activists—including Greta Thunberg’s No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (2018) and Jamie Margolin’s Youth To Power (2020)—this paper analyzes the wave of nonfiction prose emerging from and galvanizing the youth climate movement. It pays careful attention to genre, noting how young adult writers are retooling the memoir in light of precarious environmental futures. It also asks what is revealed and obscured in theorizing these works as environmental juvenilia.
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