Contemporary Social Science

Contemporary Social Science

Special Issue: Political Activism across the Life Course

12/1

Publication date: Sep 2017

Taylor & Francis


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The Special Issue Political Activism Across the Life Course is now available online in the journal Contemporary Social Science: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsoc21/12/1-2?nav=tocList

The introduction is open access and you can read a summary of the SI here: https://connectorsstudy.com/political-activism-across-the-life-course/

Contemporary Social Science 12(1-2): http://rsa.tandfonline.com/toc/rsoc21/12/1-2

 

Guest editors: Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss, University of Sussex

Political activism across the life course. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss, University of Sussex

Embodying the next generation: children's everyday environmental activism in India and England. Catherine Walker, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Teenage girls' narratives of becoming activists. Jessica Taft, University of California Santa Cruz, United States

Narrative resources and political violence: the life stories of former clandestine militants in Portugal. Raquel da Silva, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Politicisation in later life: experiences and motivations of older people participating in protest for the first time. Jonahtan Guillemont, Kings College London, United Kingdom and Deborah Price, Manchester University

Talking politics in everyday family life. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Digital citizens? Data traces and family life. Veronica Barassi, Goldsmiths College London, United Kingdom

Welfare mothers' grassroots activism for economic justice. Sheila Katz, Sonoma State University, United States

Play as activism? Early childhood and (inter)generational politics. Rachel Rosen, University College London, United Kingdom

Educational activism through the divide: empowering youths and their communities. Thalia Dragonas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Anna Vassiliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Housing choices in later life as unclaimed forms of housing activism. Andrea Jones, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Enduring Ideals: Revisiting Lifetimes of Commitment Twenty-Five Years Later. Molly Andrews, University of East London, United Kingdom