Benjamin Bowman
Manchester Metropolitan University
16 Papers
23 Citations
Benjamin Bowman is an academic researcher from Manchester Metropolitan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Government. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Benjamin Bowman include University of Bath.
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By any media necessary: the new youth activism
TL;DR: The overall sense of this useful book is made clear from the start as discussed by the authors, where the author describes the Occupy Movement as "less a movement than a provocation" for which "passing the word was the point".
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Imagining future worlds alongside young climate activists: a new framework for research
TL;DR: The most extensive study of young people's climate action published to date, entitled "Protest for a Future: Composition, Mobilization and Motives of the Participants in Fridays For Future Climate Protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European Cities" as discussed by the authors, provides an analysis of the potential and the need for empirical work at local and international levels concerning youth climate activism.
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‘They don’t quite understand the importance of what we’re doing today’: the young people’s climate strikes as subaltern activism
Benjamin Bowman
- 01 Oct 2020
TL;DR: The authors examined the complex political activism of climate strikers as a "subaltern group" who take political action in a wider context of intersecting categories of oppression and marginalization, and in the historical context of environmental racism, the enduring legacies of colonialism and global inequality during contemporary capitalism.
“We Are Radical In Our Kindness”: The Political Socialisation, Motivations, Demands and Protest Actions of Young Environmental Activists in Britain
Sarah Pickard,Benjamin Bowman,Dena Arya +2 more
- 31 Dec 2020
TL;DR: The year 2018 was a watershed in environmental activism, especially regarding young activists as discussed by the authors, where Greta Thunberg started her School Strikes for Climate and the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion was founded.
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Young people's climate activism: A review of the literature
TL;DR: The year 2018 was a watershed year for young people's climate activism as discussed by the authors , and the field is experiencing a second wave of qualitative research and a resurgence of emphasis on youth voice in research.