1st Edition
Political Activism across the Life Course
Foreword David Canter
Introduction: Political activism across the life course Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss
1. Embodying ‘the Next Generation’: children’s everyday environmental activism in India and England Catherine Walker
2. Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists Jessica K. Taft
3. Narrative resources and political violence: the life stories of former clandestine militants in Portugal Raquel da Silva
4. Politicisation in later life: experience and motivations of older people participating in a protest for the first time Jonathan R. Guillemot and Debora J. Price
5. Talking politics in everyday family lives Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss
6. Digital citizens? Data traces and family life Veronica Barassi
7. Welfare mothers’ grassroots activism for economic justice Sheila Marie Katz
8. Play as activism? Early childhood and (inter)generational politics Rachel Rosen
9. Educational activism across the divide: empowering youths and their communities Thalia Dragonas and Anni Vassiliou
10. Housing choices in later life as unclaimed forms of housing activism Andrea Jones
11. Enduring ideals: revisiting Lifetimes of Commitment twenty-five years later Molly Andrews
Biography
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.
