May 2024: The YECEI research team has met to discuss the objectives of the research project and the next steps of the research. Each research strand aims to explore the production and circulation of youth-led fictional and political writing on climate and environment through a specific perspective.

YECEI aims to explores this topic by:

1) reconstructing the recent history of climate fiction writing in the Italian context.

2) carrying out a critical discursive analysis of different kinds of texts in order to highlight the issue of ‘imaginaries’ produced in narratives  and political documents and how these imaginaries open or close spaces for youth-led creative action.

3) analysing the forms of distribution, circulation, fruition, interpretation and discussion among young people (e.g., on digital thematic platforms) of the produced imaginaries.

4) organising public events in which authors, audience and YECEI researchers (as well as institutional actors, and climate and environmental experts) discuss together the impact of this overall enterprise.