“How can climate fiction motivate people to take climate action?”

Cockx, Lisa (2022) “How can climate fiction motivate people to take climate action?”. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).

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Abstract

This research aims to evaluate how climate fiction can contribute towards climate action, with a focus on understanding the exact role it plays and the reach and influence that it has. Climate fiction, a newly emerged literary genre, addresses urgent threats and future scenarios following climate change (Glass, 2013) and takes either a utopian (Cogbill-Seiders, 2018) or dystopian (Safaeyan, 2022) take on the future. The research about “How can climate fiction motivate people to take climate action?” was carried out by conducting a thorough literature review and a complementary study about the perceptions of climate fiction in higher education among university students was conducted. Both the research and survey showed that climate fiction can motivate action by activating emotional responses, it has the potential to raise awareness and foster a deeper understanding about climate change, and it can encourage the reader through calls to action. Unfortunately, one could assume that only pro-environmental-minded people would expose themselves to this type of literature. In educational settings, climate fiction could reach a wider audience, but the application of climate fiction in higher education requires further research and careful consideration.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor)
Name supervisor:	Schulz, K.A.
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2022 13:33
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2022 13:33
URI:	https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/149

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