The Climate Girl Effect: Fridays, Flint, and Fire [Paperback]

From podiums on international stages to mainstream media coverage, from crowds of youth marching in streets, to social media feeds, everywhere we look we can see girls rising in the climate justice movement. Carolyn M. Cunningham and Heather M. Crandall examine these climate activists from the intersection of gender studies, new media studies, and environmental activism. Chapters include cases about iconic climate girls such as Greta Thunberg, Mari Copeny, and Autumn Peltier (Wiikwemkoong First Nation) and lesser-known climate girl activists who design technologies, global non-profit organizations, and lawsuits against governments. Cunningham and Crandall reveal that climate girls are intersectional activists aware of how systems of oppressionincluding racism, heterosexism, and capitalismimpact the climate crisis. Individuals interested in womens and gender studies, environmental studies, and communications studies will find this book of particular interest.

Carolyn M. Cunningham is associate professor in the Communication and Leadership Studies Department at Gonzaga University.
Heather M. Crandall is associate professor in the Communication Studies Department at Gonzaga University.

The Climate Girl Effect is an excellent entry point for those interested in learning more about the current wave of girls activism for climate justice. The authors are both scholars and admirers of the activists and movements they present, allowing them to capture the tensions at play, between anxiety and strength, media empowerment and fetishization, and the desire to change the world versus the desire to live normal lives in unprecedented times. In combining attention to girls studies, environmental activism, Black and Indigenous experiences, and social/new media savvy, this book makes notable contributions to how we understand intersectional and coalition activisms.  Casey R. Schmitt, Editor of Western Journal of Communication

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