liu.seSearch for publications in DiVA
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Disrupting the Present and Opening the Future Extinction Rebellion, Fridays For Future, and the Disruptive Utopian Method
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of History, Arts and Religious Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
2022 (English)In: Utopian studies, ISSN 1045-991X, E-ISSN 2154-9648, Vol. 33, no 1Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article examines the temporal rhetoric of Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future to discuss how the new generation of climate movement organizations offers ideas of an open future that can be acted upon. Research has shown how climate organizations create economic and social disruptions. However, as the article shows, they also create temporal disruptions. Taking theoretical inspiration from critical utopian studies, the article states that the climate activists should be understood as utilizing a disruptive utopian method that aims to disrupt the present and thereby open the future. The method relies on utopias that are relational and open, not static or absolute. Hence, the utopianism employed by these groups is not about closure and perfection, but rather about openness and offering alternatives.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
PENN STATE UNIV PRESS , 2022. Vol. 33, no 1
Keywords [en]
climate movement organizations; Ernst Bloch; postapocalypse; Reinhart Koselleck; rhetoric; temporality; utopianism
National Category
History of Ideas
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-189811DOI: 10.5325/utopianstudies.33.1.0001ISI: 000861426100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-189811DiVA, id: diva2:1709417
Note

Funding Agencies|Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) [P18-0121:1]

Available from: 2022-11-08 Created: 2022-11-08 Last updated: 2022-11-08

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full text

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Friberg, Anna
By organisation
Division of History, Arts and Religious StudiesFaculty of Arts and Sciences
In the same journal
Utopian studies
History of Ideas

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 276 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • oxford
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf