{"id":38506,"date":"2024-08-20T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=38506"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:54","slug":"congratulations-to-linsday-robinson-on-her-successful-thesis-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2024\/congratulations-to-linsday-robinson-on-her-successful-thesis-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Lindsay Robinson on her successful thesis defence!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to Lindsay Robinson on her successful thesis defence!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright wp-image-38509 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Lindsay.Robinson_8603_defence-2024_400x307.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Laura Macdonald, Lindsay Robinson and Fiona Robinson\" class=\"wp-image-38509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Lindsay.Robinson_8603_defence-2024_400x307.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Lindsay.Robinson_8603_defence-2024_400x307-160x123.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Lindsay.Robinson_8603_defence-2024_400x307-240x184.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Lindsay.Robinson_8603_defence-2024_400x307-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Lindsay.Robinson_8603_defence-2024_400x307-360x276.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lindsay Robinson (middle) with Laura Macdonald (left) and thesis supervisor Fiona Robinson (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Lindsay Robinson on successfully defending her thesis. Her dissertation is entitled &#8220;Empowering Teenage Girls to Save the Planet? Idealized Girlhood, Green Girl Power, and the \u2018Girling of Climate Change\u2019&#8221;. Her research has been nominated for a Senate Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My dissertation interrogates the recent visibility of teenage girls and young women in global climate change politics. Although this visibility is seemingly positive and celebratory \u2013 where \u2018green girl power\u2019 is imagined as the long-awaited solution to impending climate disaster \u2013 my research explores the pernicious underpinnings and implications of what I refer to as the \u2018girling of climate change\u2019. These ideas of girlhood reinforce essentialist ideas of femininity and youth, combined with neoliberal capitalist beliefs on girls\u2019 exceptionality and individualism, to tell us that teenage girls, all on their own can and must save the world from the climate crisis. Such beliefs are potentially depoliticizing; this emphasis on the individual and iconic climate girl distracts from an attention to much-needed structural, political, and policy changes, as well as from engaging in collective social movement politics. Yet, these ways of thinking about girls and girlhood are not fixed. Girls are actively challenging how they are seen and valued in global politics. As my dissertation suggests, critical researchers must take time to attentively listen to girls and their experiences within and beyond climate activism. And when we do this, it is clear that girls neither want to be superficially celebrated nor be tasked with saving the world on their own. Rather, girls are asking for help \u2013 they are demanding ongoing intergenerational and collective political movements to create more collaborative, relational, and egalitarian futures. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Lindsay Robinson on successfully defending her thesis. Her dissertation is entitled &#8220;Empowering Teenage Girls to Save the Planet? Idealized Girlhood, Green Girl Power, and the \u2018Girling of Climate Change\u2019&#8221;. Her research has been nominated for a Senate Medal. &#8220;My dissertation interrogates the recent visibility of teenage girls and young women in global climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[102,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38529,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506\/revisions\/38529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}