Natural resource inequities, domination and the rise of youth communicative power: changing the normative relevance of ecological wrongdoing

dc.contributor.authorSkillington, Tracey
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-17T10:21:41Z
dc.date.available2020-08-17T10:21:41Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-05
dc.date.updated2020-08-17T10:09:48Z
dc.description.abstractThe failure of states to take the necessary actions to prevent global temperatures from soaring may be interpreted as more than an act of environmental negligence. In terms of a knowing imposition of harm, it also represents an act of domination. That is, a deliberate denial of rights to a safe, democratic, and sustainable future. This paper notes the role played by institutional power in preserving this system of domination and in shaping the discursive spaces in which carbon energy options continue to be vigorously defended even in the face of mounting evidence of their danger. Yet as signs of eco-distress grow stronger, so too does a questioning of the legitimacy of this power order. This paper examines how youth employ â communicative powerâ , as the product of a common will formed in non-coercive communication, to counter this domination and reinterpret climate change as the product of dysfunctional decision-making and â abnormalâ justice relations between generations. It notes the significance of these actorsâ mobilization efforts to societal processes of learning about democracy's better potentialities and capacities to transform society from within (via law).en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationSkillington, T. (2020) 'Natural resource inequities, domination and the rise of youth communicative power: changing the normative relevance of ecological wrongdoing', Distinktion. doi: 10.1080/1600910X.2020.1775669en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1600910X.2020.1775669en
dc.identifier.eissn2159-9149
dc.identifier.issn1600-910X
dc.identifier.journaltitleDistinktionen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10402
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledge - Taylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rights© 2020, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an item published by Taylor & Francis in Distinktion on 5 June 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2020.1775669en
dc.subjectEco-destructionen
dc.subjectInstitutional failureen
dc.subjectDominationen
dc.subjectIntergenerational inequalitiesen
dc.subjectYouth climate actionen
dc.subjectCommunicative poweren
dc.subjectSocietal learningen
dc.titleNatural resource inequities, domination and the rise of youth communicative power: changing the normative relevance of ecological wrongdoingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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