Politics of Disruption: Youth Climate Activisms and Education

This Reprint, titled "Politics of Disruption: Youth Climate Activisms and Education", looks to alternative spaces where youth are taking action, shifting relations, and making their voices heard. Activisms from a multiplicity of global contexts take up alternative knowledge in alternative ways, demonstrating the agency of young people to respond contextually to their own lived realities. Often emerging through everyday, relational, and cultural forms of resistance amid persistent structural injustices, youth climate activism continues to adapt to shifting political conditions. Uneven structural constraints and support networks shape the possibilities available for young people to enact social change. Together, youth experiences challenge dominant ideologies in education, as well as the ways education systems are implicated in broader colonial-capitalist, industrial, and neoliberal systems. Within these constraints, youth activism occupies space within formal education as participants hack, bypass, revamp, and creatively open-up spaces for youth agency, justice, and political possibility. Collectively, the contributions reveal how youth climate activism not only responds to climate injustice but also offers powerful provocations for rethinking education itself.