We argue youth-led social justice movements are key sites for building collective hope in the face of the existential threats of colonisation, climate change and sexual violence. Building on the concepts of projective agency and affective scaffolding, we create an analytical framework to understand how collective hope was created and challenged in the work of six activist groups in Aotearoa New Zealand. The groups in our study encompassed a spectrum of intersecting causes – Indigenous rights, climate justice, feminist and queer rights, and social and economic justice. We attended campaigns and meetings and followed the groups’ social media between 2018 and 2021, and conducted interviews with a total of 90 participants, asking about what inspired, and sustained, their activism. We found that activists created collective hope in the groups they were part of through being, and acting, together. The commitment to shared goals, a sense of community, a belief in mutual efficacy through democratic participation, and courage to take action are integral to building collective hope. To sustain a sense of projective agency in the face of intractable issues required a variety of strategies, including affective scaffolding and support, to keep moving forward.

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在青年活动团体中搭建集体希望和能动性：“我通过行动获得希望”


我们认为，面对殖民、气候变化和性暴力等生存威胁，青年主导的社会正义运动是建立集体希望的关键场所。基于投射代理和情感脚手架的概念，我们创建了一个分析框架，以了解新西兰六个活动团体的工作中如何创造和挑战集体希望。我们研究中的群体涵盖了一系列相互交叉的原因——原住民权利、气候正义、女权主义和酷儿权利以及社会和经济正义。我们参加了 2018 年至 2021 年间的活动和会议，关注了这些团体的社交媒体，并对总共 90 名参与者进行了采访，询问是什么激发并维持了他们的行动主义。我们发现，积极分子通过共同存在和共同行动，为他们所属的群体创造了集体希望。对共同目标的承诺、社区意识、通过民主参与实现互利共赢的信念以及采取行动的勇气是建立集体希望的组成部分。为了在面对棘手问题时维持投射能动感，需要采取多种策略，包括情感支架和支持，以继续前进。