Generation climate change

The focus for this Forum is the new, or perhaps youth, climate movement starting with the school strikes in 2018, growing in intensity and significance through 2019, stifled by the Covid-19 pandemic, but continuing to build hope in what may be a more ecologically sustainable global society as a result of the enforced slowing down and cooling down of hitherto overheated and unsustainable globalisation, as a result of the pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Pandemic precarity.

This editorial highlights how the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified precarity as a global life condition. At the same time, it has also emphasized inequality and exposed how some lives are more precarious than others. Those working in the so-called informal economy have been proportionally harder hit. In sub-Saharan Africa, where most of the economy is informal, many rely on improvisation tactics for everyday survival and well-being. Yet, in order to grasp these everyday tactics, the authors suggest that we move beyond two stereotypical ideas about Africa: the suffering and the resilient precariat. The discourse on precarity is often misleading and patronizing, pointing to the ways humans either suffer or transcend victimhood. In everyday lives, humans devise tactics - within larger structures and strategies beyond our control, such as the global pandemic - for making a living and creating lives worth living.

Generation climate change

The focus for this Forum is the new, or perhaps youth, climate movement starting with the school strikes in 2018, growing in intensity and significance through 2019, stifled by the Covid-19 pandemic, but continuing to build hope in what may be a more ecologically sustainable global society as a result of the enforced slowing down and cooling down of hitherto overheated and unsustainable globalisation, as a result of the pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

The enforced cooling down of an overheated world

As the editors of this journal rightly point out, anthropologists may have an important part to play in helping humanity come to terms with the COVID‐19 pandemic and its aftermath. Since we specialise in human diversity, our contribution could highlight alternative recipes for living and describe less destructive ways of organising society.