Time Matters: Temporality for the repoliticisation of eco-citizenship
(2026) Environmental psychology seminar — Location: Université de Sussex (Brighton) (16.April.2026)
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- This presentation explores how environmental citizenship is discursively (de)politicised within youth climate engagement. Building on Essex School discourse theory (Laclau & Mouffe, 1985), I examine socio‑political imaginaries in two Belgian youth contexts: institutionalised participatory programmes for minoritised youth (Green Youths) and confrontational activist groups (Activists for Climate Justice).Drawing on multi‑sited ethnography in Brussels (2021–2025), the study identifies temporality as a key nodal point in ecocitizenship discourses. Findings show that in Activists for Climate Justice, temporal imaginaries of crisis and rupture sustain agonistic contestation, whereas Green Youths articulate imaginaries of gradual transition and suspended agency, where politicising practices coexist with depoliticising tendencies of deferral and powerlessness. These configurations show reveal how temporal imaginaries mediate between radical agonism and pragmatic containment.
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Vossen, K. (2026). Time Matters: Temporality for the repoliticisation of eco-citizenship. Environmental psychology seminar, Université de Sussex (Brighton).