The Thunberg Effect, Childism and Overheating

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Biswas, Tanushree:
The Thunberg Effect, Childism and Overheating.
2019
Event: Crises and Responsibilities, kNOWledges in Academia, Arts and Activism : 9th BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures , 05.-07.07.2019 , Bayreuth.
(Conference item: Workshop , Other Presentation type)

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The Thunberg Effect is a boundary breaking bridge builder in an overheated early 21st century world. School strikes have opened the global public sphere for even kindergarten-going citizens’ environmental concerns to be publicly voiced. Listening to such micro complaints within a larger socio-economic context implies self-critical rethinking about what is globally desirable in the light of childhood i.e. through the perspective of Childism. This workshop, followed by a panel discussion, aims to sensitize adult audiences to start opening up to the philosophical complexities of children and childhood that beckon care in an overheated era.