Description
This paper will explore how the arts can help young people to reflect on their environment and to think about the future. Drawing on data from a two-year research initiative working with a network of Algerian youth researchers from across Algerian and UK universities as well as environmental associations in Algeria, this paper will investigate the youth’s creative responses to the different environmental challenges facing Algeria and their understandings of imagined future Algeria. The paper discusses some artistic engagements through which young Algerian men and women approach different environmental issues and raise awareness about them. This paper also sheds light on how creative young Algerians use the arts to mobilise the youth and the difficulties which they encounter in their environmental activism.
