Benjamin Bowman

Dr Benjamin Bowman

Small Group Project 2021-22

Exploring youth-led imaginaries during climate crisis

How do young people orient themselves towards climate change and debates on climate change responses? This interdisciplinary group project investigates how literature and politics enrich one another, leading to new understandings of the relation of young people to the climate crisis. This project brings together the co-investigators, Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley and Dr Benjamin Bowman, who have expertise in youth literature and politics, with a small group of young people as co-researchers to analyse the role of creative fiction in the development of political subjectivities and attitudinal transformation.

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Research outcomes

Hayes, T., Walker, C., Parsons, K. J., Arya, D., Bowman, B., Buckley, C. G., Lock, R., Langford, S. C., Peacock, S., & Thew, H. (2022).

In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty. Children s Geographies, 21(5), 803–818.

Areas of interest

Political Sociology Youth Climate Change Activism Politics Climate Education

Cohort

FG7

Biography

Dr Benjamin Bowman is a political sociologist specialising in youth studies. Their research focuses on young people's everyday politics and the ways in which they take action to create change in the world around them, with a current emphasis on youth climate action. They are internationally recognised for interdisciplinary, participatory research with young people, working primarily through youth participatory action research (YPAR) to nurture young people's visions and capacity for change. They place a strong emphasis on collaborative and co-produced research, and regularly co-author with young people and other researchers.

Biographical details correct as of 27.04.26