Discourses about young people are interacting with climate change discourses in ways that often marginalize the young in social responses to climate change. The resulting stories about young people in a changing climate build upon long-standing representations of youthhood in late modern societies as a liminal, ill-defined state between childhood and adulthood. The social and behavioral sciences have both helped produce these stories and critically examined their origins, characteristics, and effects. This article offers a novel critical review of ideas about young people in climate change research across a wide variety of disciplines and fields, including geography, psychology, sociology, education, political studies, health studies, media studies, legal studies, and youth studies. We employ Hajer's account of discursive storylines to identify seven ways in which young people are storied in climate discourses. While distinct, stories of young people as innocent, vulnerable, heroic, alarmist, inheriting, apathetic or narcissistic overlap, and interact. This variety of storylines reflects the mutable category of young people and the deliberate ambiguity with which it is often deployed. We use this typology in three ways to advance the interests of young people in climate change discourses. First, we show how these discourses are indebted to while also changing understandings of young people in late modern societies. Second, we consider the potential impacts of these stories on young lives and on responses to climate change. Third, we identify prospects for new stories to emerge as young voices become increasingly important in urgent social discussions of climate change.

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无辜的英雄还是自私的危言耸听者？对气候变化话语中年轻人故事情节的多样性和影响的专题回顾

关于年轻人的讨论与气候变化讨论的互动方式往往使年轻人在气候变化的社会反应中被边缘化。由此产生的关于年轻人在不断变化的气候中的故事建立在现代晚期社会中长期将青年描述为童年和成年之间的一种有限的、不明确的状态的基础上。社会科学和行为科学都帮助产生了这些故事，并批判性地研究了它们的起源、特征和影响。本文对年轻人在气候变化研究中的想法进行了新颖的批判性评论，涉及多个学科和领域，包括地理学、心理学、社会学、教育、政治研究、健康研究、媒体研究、法律研究和青年研究。我们利用哈杰尔对话语故事情节的描述来确定年轻人在气候话语中被讲述的七种方式。年轻人的故事虽然各不相同，但天真的、脆弱的、英雄的、危言耸听的、继承的、冷漠的或自恋的故事重叠和相互作用。这种多样化的故事情节反映了年轻人的多变类别以及其经常被刻意的模糊性。我们通过三种方式使用这种类型来提高年轻人对气候变化讨论的兴趣。首先，我们展示了这些话语如何受益于现代晚期社会年轻人的理解，同时也改变了他们的理解。其次，我们考虑这些故事对年轻人的生活和应对气候变化的潜在影响。第三，随着年轻人的声音在气候变化的紧急社会讨论中变得越来越重要，我们确定了新故事出现的前景。