Lexington Books
Pages: 196
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-7936-3955-4 • Hardback • September 2022 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-7936-3957-8 • Paperback • February 2024 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-7936-3956-1 • eBook • September 2022 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Carolyn M. Cunningham is associate professor in the Communication and Leadership Studies Department at Gonzaga University.
Heather M. Crandall is associate professor in the Communication Studies Department at Gonzaga University.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Girls on Earth
Chapter 2 The Greta Effect
Chapter 3 The Flint Girl Effect
Chapter 4 Indigenous Climate Girl Effect
Chapter 5 Technofeminist Climate Girl Effect
Chapter 6 Grassroots Climate Girl Effect
Chapter 7 Lawyer Up Climate Girl Effect
Chapter 8 The Future of the Climate Girl Effect
References
About the Author
“The Climate Girl Effect is an excellent entry point for those interested in learning more about the current wave of girls activism for climate justice. The authors are both scholars and admirers of the activists and movements they present, allowing them to capture the tensions at play, between anxiety and strength, media empowerment and fetishization, and the desire to change the world versus the desire to live “normal” lives in unprecedented times. In combining attention to girls studies, environmental activism, Black and Indigenous experiences, and social/new media savvy, this book makes notable contributions to how we understand intersectional and coalition activisms."
— Casey R. Schmitt, Editor of Western Journal of Communication
This book has several strengths. First, unlike much of the youth civic media literature, the authors mainly focus on robust political activism rather than cultural media practices that are often presented as more politically-engaged than they are….The authors’ focus on a radically, ethically, economically, and geographically diverse rage of young women activists is a refreshing antidote to the media’s often single-minded fixation on Greta Thunberg….Another of the book’s strengths is its ability to identify what is deeply radical and challenging about many of these activists’ analysis of the climate crisis….this book can make a useful contribution to understanding the powerful and hopeful role of young women in climate movements, how these leaders are often misrepresented in the media coverage, and how they use media effectively to educate and mobilize support.
— Communication Research Trends
11/15/2023, Labor Tech Research Network Book Award Mention:
"Drs. Cunningham and Crandall have written an excellent book that explores a wide range of activism labor and technology use for climate activism amongst girl leaders across the world. Female, non-adults and young adults have seldom been the subject of scholarship on labor and technology (excluding studies on influencers). The authors skillfully address and critique the pitfalls of the mainstream media constructions of these girl leaders as “exceptional”—and the structural roots of such framing in Western individualism and patriarchy. Informed by both eco-feminist and techno-feminist traditions, the authors showcase the labor, praxis, discourse, and technologies mobilized by “the climate girls” and the intersectional and coalitional communities they rely on and contribute towards building. The book produces new knowledge about the potentials of labor and technology, new forms of collective activism and community, and the intersections of women’s movements, labor movements, and climate actions."