Constructs of childhood, generation and heroism in editorials on young people's climate change activism: Their mobilisation and effects

We analyse the effects of constructions and mobilisations childhood, generation girl heroism in 30 Canadian editorials written response to 2019 climate change protests. discuss how strategically position—and sometimes dismiss—young activists through discourses childhood innocence, becoming social participation. Second, we focus on mobilise emphasise either generational division or cross-generational solidarity. Finally, problematise editorials' concentration individualised heroism. thus contextualise deconstruct truth statements around age, heroism, emphasising instead their potential for certain narratives better recognise diversity solidarity activism.