Future Right Now: Youth Climate Activism in Chile
What can Chile's history of youth mobilisation teach us about climate activism today? Associate Professor Patricio Cabello explores how environmental activism intersects with social crisis, generational identity and digital society - and what it means for the future of democracy.
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The Female Orphan School is located on the Parramatta South campus of Western Sydney University at James Ruse Dr & Victoria Rd, Parramatta NSW.
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Registration opens: 9.30am
Welcome & introductions: 9:45am
Youth participation in a democracy such as Chile's is primarily mediated by conflict, in cycles of political contention that articulate different social issues - some contingent, others structural. Join Associate Professor Patricio Cabello for a free public lecture examining four episodes of political mobilisation to explore how youth environmental activism is intertwined with social crisis, forms of identity and generational innovation.
Hear how the environment becomes a focus episodically within a complex historical and political fabric - and how, given the development of digital society and its significant environmental impacts, youth activism will once again take up the environment as part of a broader political project.
Associate Professor Patricio Cabello
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Universidad Andres Bello and Universidad de Chile
Patricio Cabello is a professor at Universidad Andrés Bello and Universidad de Chile. He is a researcher at the Center for the Well-Being and Development of Adolescents and Children in the Digital Age (BAND) and the Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE), where his work focuses on youth participation, digital society and political mobilisation.
