Journal publications
Disempowering emotions: The role of educational experiences in social responses to climate change.
Charlotte A Jones & Aidan Davidson, 2020. Geoforum 118:190-200.
The process of learning about climate change is not simply cognitive. It is also an emotional encounter that may have enduring effects. To date, little research has attended to the emotional significance of childhood learning experiences of climate change in adult lives and in social responses to climate change. We report a qualitative study exploring the variety, complexity, and the post-school significance of affective experiences of climate change schooling.
Other articles and essays
You Stole Our Future: Intergenerational Climate Justice
The Sociological Review
“These words are shared cries of many children and young people across the world. Plastered with splatterings of paint across protest signs, these handiworks represent labours of love, outlets of frustration and messages of provocation for those older than themselves. These incitements for action from children and young people are demonstrative of the failures to see intergenerational climate justice.”
Climate Change is Emotional – for All of Us.
National Geographic Education
“I can remember the first moment I learnt about climate change. I was 9 years old, I had just got my pen license, there was a new playground put in at school (with a very exciting slide) and we were voting for our next class captain at the time. Our teacher asked us to make research posters on an environmental issue, and from our provided list of options, I decided to research the greenhouse effect.”