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Political activism across the life course

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  • Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
  • Christos Varvantakis
  • Vinnarasan Aruldoss

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The study of political activism has neglected people’s personal and social relationships to time. Age, life course and generation have become increasing important experiences for understanding political participation and political outcomes (e.g. Brexit), and current policies of austerity across the world are affecting people of all ages. At a time when social science is struggling to understand the rapid and unexpected changes to the current political landscape, the essay argues that the study of political activism can be enriched by engaging with the temporal dimensions of people’s everyday social experiences because it enables the discovery of political activism in mundane activities as well as in banal spaces. The authors suggest that a values-based approach that focuses on people’s relationships of concern would be a suitable way to surface contemporary political sites and experiences of activism across the life course and for different generations.

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  • Sevasti-Melissa Nolas & Christos Varvantakis & Vinnarasan Aruldoss, 2017. "Political activism across the life course," Contemporary Social Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(1-2), pages 1-12, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocxx:v:12:y:2017:i:1-2:p:1-12
    DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2017.1336566
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    1. Rita Agdal & Ingrid Onarheim Spjeldnaes, 2023. "Developing Public Health Promotion Strategies for Social Networking Sites: Perspectives of Young Immigrant Women in Norway," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(5), pages 1-18, February.
    2. Eleni Theodorou & Spyros Spyrou & Georgina Christou, 2021. "There is no Plan(et) B: youth activism in the fight against climate change in Cyprus," GreeSE – Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe 166, Hellenic Observatory, LSE.

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