ABSTRACT

This paper reflects upon the everyday agency of marginalized youth in the Brazilian urban periphery in responding to the climate crisis. In the context of the global covid-19 crisis, which has exacerbated patterns of social exclusion between urban centers and peripheries, we reflect on the extent to which current theorizations of youth activism are appropriate for understanding youth agency in the periphery of Sao Paulo. We seek to ‘blur the -ism’ in climate activism by introducing more multi-faceted understandings of agency based on young people’s everyday (inter-)actions with their environment as well as their contradicting emotions regarding their vulnerabilities and potential.

摘要

本文反映了巴西城市边缘边缘青年在应对气候危机方面的日常行为。在全球 covid-19 危机加剧了城市中心和周边地区之间的社会排斥模式的背景下，我们反思了当前青年激进主义理论在多大程度上适用于理解圣保罗周边地区的青年机构。我们试图通过基于年轻人与环境的日常（互动）行为以及他们关于自身脆弱性和潜力的矛盾情绪，引入对代理的更多多方面理解，来“模糊气候行动主义中的主义”。