Dr. Turkan Firinci Orman

Learning Environmental Citizenship from Below: Insights from Bulgarian Youth’s Everyday Climate Activism - NORRAG - In this blogpost, which is based on a recent article in Youth, Turkan Firinci Orman shares how young people in Bulgaria enact climate activism through everyday practices, quiet resistance, and relatio...

See my latest blog post on Learning Environmental Citizenship from Below, published in NORRAG - www.norrageducation.org/learning-env...

Prefigurative Politics in Action: Youth Climate Activism and Arendt’s Politics of New Beginnings This chapter explores youth climate activism as a site of prefigurative politics through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy. It argues that young activists do not merely protest cu...

My chapter “Prefigurative Politics in Action: Youth Climate Activism and Arendt’s Politics of New Beginnings” is out in Societal Transitions to Sustainability (Palgrave Macmillan). 📚 Read it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Pedagogies of sustainability and radical care: grassroots urban practices in Tampere, Finland This study investigates radical care as a conceptual framework that links affective, material, and ethical practices of mutual support to processes of urban sustainability, inclusivity, and democra...

✨ New publication out!
Pedagogies of Sustainability and Radical Care - our study of three grassroots initiatives in Tampere (TiCas, Hirvitalo, Blokgarden) and how they cultivate sustainable and caring urban futures through everyday practices. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EW3AI...

The metaphorical cage: political presence and lived citizenship of a young refugee girl This article examines the interplay between lived and legal citizenship through the metaphor of a Cage, illuminating the complex dynamics experienced by refugee youth whose everyday belonging diver...

✨ My new publication ✨
“The Metaphorical Cage: Political Presence and Lived Citizenship of a Young Refugee Girl” — now in Children’s Geographies.
tandfonline.com/eprint/XMAPM...
#MetaphorAsMethod #RefugeeStudies #FeministGeography

Photos by T.Orman

✨ Last week at Re-City 2025 & Radical Care Week at Tampere University. Presented on prefigurative pedagogy + tactical urbanism, and (with Zeynep Kaynar) on sustainable practices & radical care.
Practising democracy means making space for many voices — a practice of radical care. Feeling inspired. :)

🎭 Youth climate activism prefigures just futures, not distant utopias Despite widespread political inertia in responding to the climate crisis, youth climate activists are reshaping politics. Turkan Firinci Orman argues that by embodying Hannah Arendt’s ideas of freedom...

🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.20
🌎 @turkanfirinci.bsky.social argues that by embodying #HannahArendt’s ideas of freedom and action, 🪧 youth #ClimateActivists are transforming utopias from rigid blueprints into living practices of collective possibility.
👉 bit.ly/3IPFXUF

Street photos from Rabat, Morocco by T.Orman

✨ Honoured to co-organise a joint session at #ISAForum2025 in Rabat with RC53 & RC04!

Our panel on Multispecies Pedagogies for the Anthropocene reimagined justice in early childhood ed through bold, relational, and ecological lenses. 🌱

Also met some stunning nonhuman locals on campus 🌵🌻🪷

Experiential Learning in a Multicultural Online Space: ‘My Digital Self’—Avatar Design Workshop - Journal of Formative Design in Learning This paper reports on the design and implementation of the ‘My Digital Self: Avatar Design Workshop’, an experiential initiative aimed at fostering multicultural and collaborative learning among youth...

My new piece: “Experiential Learning in a Multicultural Online Space: ‘My Digital Self’—Avatar Design Workshop”. See how Finnish & Japanese youths design avatars discussing identity & gender.
🧡 A playful yet powerful journey in intercultural empathy. doi.org/10.1007/s416...

A conceptual model for youth-led urban utopias: leveraging critical environmental pedagogies for sustainable futures Neoliberal urban planning often marginalizes youth participation, limiting their potential to shape sustainable urban futures. This study presents a conceptual model and introduces a pedagogically ...

Full article: A conceptual model for youth-led urban utopias: leveraging critical environmental pedagogies for sustainable futures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🍁 My new essay is out! 🍁
How can we teach climate literacy, which really matters?

★ Youth lived experiences across 3 countries
★ Pedagogical insights for climate education
★ Published in Climate Literacy in Education

🔗 doi.org/10.24926/cle...

-Purple day-

Springish - by T.Orman

A conceptual model for youth-led urban utopias: leveraging critical environmental pedagogies for sustainable futures Neoliberal urban planning often marginalizes youth participation, limiting their potential to shape sustainable urban futures. This study presents a conceptual model and introduces a pedagogically ...

Thrilled to share my latest article in Environmental Education Research:
"A Conceptual Model for Youth-Led Urban Utopias: Leveraging Critical Environmental Pedagogies for Sustainable Futures"
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3QZGM...

#UrbanUtopia #SustainableFutures #EnvironmentalEducation

Towards multispecies pedagogies: seeking collective agency in early childhood education In the Anthropocene era, conventional pedagogies characterised by individualistic and linear approaches are considered insufficient for ensuring sustainable futures in light of climate change, zoon...

🌍My New Publication: Towards Multispecies Pedagogies is out! What if early childhood education wasn’t just about shaping human futures—but about fostering collective futures across species? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5ZW75...

Turku-Riverside by T.Orman

"Random Blue" by T.Orman

British Hindus engage in most eco-friendly actions of all faith groups, research shows As the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life study found Hindus are at the forefront of environmental activism, British Hindu, Muslim, and Christian participants discuss how they reconcile faith a...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Everyday Activism Performances and Liminal Political Positionings of Early Youth in Bulgaria: Learning to Be Environmental Subjects Research on climate activism has predominantly focused on affluent regions of the Global North, often emphasizing public participation and protest while overlooking the experiences of youth in other c...

Just out! 📢 My latest article on early youth, everyday activism & liminal political positioning in Bulgaria. How do young people learn to be environmental subjects? 🌍✨

Read here: www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/... #YouthActivism #EnvironmentalCitizenship #LiminalPolitics

Ice & fire by T.Orman

"Rembrandt Light" – a moment captured at Tampere Kauppahalli, where shadows and highlights play in quiet harmony. The timeless glow of the marketplace meets the depth of chiaroscuro - a nod to history, framed in the present. 🌟📷 #photodaily

Mild winter draws first migratory birds back Ornithological society Birdlife Finland says some migratory birds have arrived in Finland exceptionally early.

Ornithological society Birdlife Finland says some migratory birds have arrived in Finland exceptionally early.

Hanko shore cleanup effort continues Volunteers are set to continue cleaning the town's shoreline on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Volunteers are set to continue cleaning the town's shoreline on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Porvoo flea market bans fast fashion The company banned fast fashion last autumn, citing sustainability concerns.

The company banned fast fashion last autumn, citing sustainability concerns.

'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now.

And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."

Call for articles: "Embracing ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) Values to Navigate an Uncertain Future."

Abstracts due by 1 March.

ger.mercy.edu/index.php/ge...

G-old! / by T. Orman

Rembrandt light - by T.Orman

Yin Yang - by T.Orman

Handmade - by T.Orman

"Bending the fabric of time" - Photo credit @ T. Orman

I have a new article out in Urban Studies that explores the intersection of contemporary financial capitalism, urban transformation, and the value of speculative fiction. It's part of a special issue called "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures." A brief thread: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Rethinking utopias through Hannah Arendt: Youth climate activism and the politics of possibility - Turkan Firinci Orman, 2025 This article presents a reflective analysis that utilizes Hannah Arendt’s concepts to rethink utopias, examining how youth climate activism embodies her ideas o...

Excited to have my work published in such a prestigious journal, alongside critical thinkers like Foucault, Ricoeur, and Habermas. My piece revisits utopias through Arendt's lens of freedom, action, and the public sphere to explore youth climate activism today. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...