ABSTRACT

Greta Thunberg is the world’s best-known environmental activist. She has been covered by the international press, featured on television talk shows, presented in music videos, and been the object of social media memes – a visibility that has made her a global celebrity. But unlike other public figures whose stardom is attached to, rather than driven by environmental activism, Thunberg’s eco-celebrity is anchored to her role in starting a global climate movement. Her activism is youth-centric and her eco-politics highly confrontational. Focusing on English language media from around the world, this essay explores how Thunberg’s rise to global eco-celebrity has been media-centric while still being remarkably resistant to co-optation within the broader terrain of climate change politics. Emphasis is placed on how Thunberg has used her celebrity status to take aim at the material realities and social practices that have caused the climate crisis, and push for radical and immediate change.

摘要

Greta Thunberg 是世界上最著名的环保活动家。她曾被国际媒体报道，出现在电视脱口秀节目中，出现在音乐视频中，并成为社交媒体模因的对象——这种知名度使她成为全球名人。但与其他公众人物的明星地位无关，而不是由环保行动主义驱动，图恩伯格的生态名人植根于她在启动全球气候运动。她的激进主义以青年为中心，她的生态政治具有高度对抗性。本文着眼于来自世界各地的英语媒体，探讨了 Thunberg 成为全球生态名人的原因是如何以媒体为中心的，同时仍然非常抵制在更广泛的气候变化政治领域内的增选。重点放在 Thunberg 如何利用她的名人地位瞄准导致气候危机的物质现实和社会实践，并推动彻底和立即的变革。