ABSTRACT
Whether Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth 4 Climate, or Zero Hour, youth climate action is “more than protest: it is also a world-building project, and creative methodologies can aid researchers and young climate activists as we imagine, together, worlds of the future”. This chapter reads youth activist climate crisis movements during the pandemic as entangled webs of micro-utopias, with the creative potentiality for nano-utopian moments of spontaneous, unpredictable, non-violent self-organization. This chapter aims to activate a nano-utopian analysis of resistance, speculating and identifying the unplanned emergence from the school strike movement that may come from seemingly chaotic potentiality. Ultimately, the chapter will argue that the nano-utopian moments of the school strikes for climate crisis during the pandemic create new ways of being, the possibility of creating a different and fairer order out of this chaos, which could exceed our current imaginaries of their capacity.
