Dystopia and Hope: The Interrelation of Pandemic and Ecological Discourses in Drawings by Children in Sweden During the First Wave of the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 Pandemic
ABSTRACT Research on young people's perspectives on COVID‐19 remains limited. This qualitative serial picture analysis of Swedish children's drawings, predominately from spring 2020 ( N = 169), aimed to explore their views and meaning‐making processes. The focus was on the interconnections of two global crises in the drawings–pandemic and environmental crisis–revealing several links, such as negative emotions and dystopian expectations, as well as a lack of hope and agency, yet also resistance and utopian optimism for solutions. Our findings offer insights into young people's responses to contemporary global crises and their implications.
Authors
- Max Kleijberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-707X)
- Johanna Lisa Degen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0530-1385)
- Anna‐Clara Rullander
- Sofía Weiss Goitiandía (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6538-0786)
- Carol Tishelman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-0342)
- Andrea Kleeberg‐Niepage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-8714)
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Europa-Universität Flensburg (DE)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Region Västra Götaland (SE)
- Stockholm University of the Arts (SE)
- Umeå University (SE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Children & Society
- Published
- 2025-03-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12959
- Primary Topic
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Karolinska Institutet