Political Activism Across the Life Course

ISBN-13: 9780367530068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas; Christos Varvantakis; Vinnarasan Aruldoss

Opis

This book looks at the ways in which people of different age groups engage with issues of a civic and political nature, and the ways in which politics is intertwined with everyday aspects of people’s pasts, presents and futures. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction: Political activism across the life course  1. Embodying ‘the Next Generation’: children’s everyday environmental activism in India and England  2. Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists  3. Narrative resources and political violence: the life stories of former clandestine militants in Portugal  4. Politicisation in later life: experience and motivations of older people participating in a protest for the first time  5. Talking politics in everyday family lives  6. Digital citizens? Data traces and family life  7. Welfare mothers’ grassroots activism for economic justice  8. Play as activism? Early childhood and (inter)generational politics  9. Educational activism across the divide: empowering youths and their communities  10. Housing choices in later life as unclaimed forms of housing activism  11. Enduring ideals: revisiting Lifetimes of Commitment twenty-five years later

O autorze

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on the relationship between childhood and public life, everyday childhoods, temporalities of everyday politics, and publics creating methodologies.

Christos Varvantakis is an anthropologist, working as a researcher at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His research focuses on the intersections of childhood and　public life, politics and urban　environments, as well as on visual and multimodal research methodologies.

Vinnarasan Aruldoss is a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His main research interests are childhood theories, post-colonial childhood, early years provision, children's politics and social policy.