The latest chapter of the JustFutures project, entitled “Youth activism and the call for generational responsibility in climate politics”, was published in the “Routledge Handbook of Climate Crisis Communication” in May 2025.
The chapter provides an overview of literature examining how youth-led climate action may have expanded the boundaries of discourse within climate politics. Our analysis underscores one of the most relevant contributions of youth activism: the moral imperative of generational responsibility, which has catalysed the politicization of the present moment. Continuously excluded from political processes, youth demand broader societal participation to formulate solutions and alternatives, indirectly proposing ways to reconfiguring climate politics as more democratic and pluralistic.
The chapter is currently under closed access and available only via institutional access.
