About the project
The goal of this project is to rethink democracy and education by examining the question of children and youth's democratic participation through the prism of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière's commitment to radical equality.
In many countries, including Norway, the participation of children is granted by law. Article 12 of the United Nation’s 1989 Convention on the Right of the Child stipulates “each child’s right to express [his or her] views freely in all matters affecting the child” (Convention on the rights of the child, 1989). Therefore, I chose to anchor this project in the movement of school strikes for climate in order to examine how youth and children redefine “all matters affecting the child”.
Children appear to be those who are (and will be) the most affected by the climate crisis. And yet, when they voice their concerns, they are left unheard. The idea for this project is to examine how the movement of the school strikes for climate can bring a new light on the question of how children can be understood as equal democratic subjects.