Despite widespread political inertia in responding to the climate crisis, youth climate activists are reshaping politics. Turkan Firinci Orman argues that by embodying Hannah Arendt’s ideas of freedom and action, they are transforming utopias from rigid blueprints into living practices of collective possibility
Turkan is an interdisciplinary scholar based in Finland, and a Docent of Sociology with over 15 years' experience across academia, international organisations, and governmental institutions.
Her research focuses on youth environmental citizenship, grassroots initiatives, transformative methods, and sustainable futures.
She examines changing youth experiences, everyday activism, and grassroots public learning through participatory and speculative methods, advancing the role of education in social and ecological transformation.
Her work has been published in leading journals, including The Journal of Environmental Education, Environmental Education Research, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Childhood, Youth, and others.
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