%0 Journal Article
%T Climate Justice Movement Building: Values and Cultures of Creation in Santa Barbara, California
%A Corrie Grosse
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8030079
%X Abstract This article analyzes how young people in the climate justice movement cultivate a prefigurative culture centered on justice as a response to the threat of climate change. Employing grounded theory and drawing on data from in-depth interviews with 29 youth activists and participant observation in Santa Barbara County, California, the birthplace of both the environmental movement and offshore oil drilling, I argue that four key values¡ªrelationships, accessibility, intersectionality, and community¡ªenable movement building, a stated goal of the climate justice movement. These values emerge from interviewees¡¯ words and practices. Drawing on John Foran¡¯s (2014) notion of political cultures of creation, I conceptualize these values and the practices that embody them as constituting a ¡°climate justice culture of creation¡± that shapes and is shaped by ideas, experiences, social relations, and the reality of a changing atmosphere. These values, and movement building, are about creating alternative futures¡ªcultures that are not dependent on inequality and fossil fuels. View Full-Tex
%K climate justice
%K social movements
%K youth
%K grassroots activism
%K political cultures
%K California
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/3/79