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Victim, litigant, activist, messiah: the child in a time of climate change
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Victim, litigant, activist, messiah: the child in a time of climate change

Nicole Rogers
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol.11(Special issue), pp.103-121
2020
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UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This output has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:

#2 Zero Hunger
#3 Good Health and Well-Being
#7 Affordable and Clean Energy
#9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
#11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
#13 Climate Action
#14 Life Below Water
#15 Life on Land

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Abstract

Children Climate change Climate litigation Climate activism Climate fiction Juliana case Greta Thunberg School strikes Law and Society Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified
In this article, I identify and examine four framings of the child in regard to climate change issues, including activism and policy reform. My focus is on the extent to which children are moving beyond the category of victim and assuming a disparate role and distinctive voice in various climate discourses: as litigant, as activist and as messiah. I explore the changing role of the child as a political, legal and social phenomenon, and consider the extent to which writers of climate and other forms of fiction have anticipated and contribute to these different framings of the child.

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