Political activism across the life course

Nolas, Sevasti‐Melissa; Varvantakis, Christos; Aruldoss, Vinnarasan

doi:10.1080/21582041.2017.1336566

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“…Although children’s agency is dependent upon their familial contexts, classroom materiality, and interpersonal classroom relationships, rarely is their dissensus a collective action; instead, they engage in disparate and fragmented practices. Nolas and others () draw attention to children’s ‘common concerns’ (p. 1), seen in ‘mundane activities’ and ‘banal spaces’ (p. 7), as a way to think about their connections to activism. The entanglement of children’s lines of desire trace relationships of concern, building the story of what they collectively see as important.…”

Section: Children’s Agency Discussedmentioning

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Children’s Agency in the Modern Primary Classroom

Kirby

2019

Children & Society

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This paper examines where and how children achieve agency in the primary classroom, drawing on a multimodal ethnography of the Year One classroom. It utilises a relational conceptualisation of agency, where children act purposively to achieve outcomes of educational relevance. It demonstrates that children achieve agency performing ‘good’ and ‘clever’ child subject positions, helping to make classroom life more liveable, although this form of agency is limited when dealing with unexpected challenges. Children also deviate, finding moments to pursue desires and ways of knowing not provided for within the classroom, insinuating a political critique of the current education system.

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Children’s Agency in the Modern Primary Classroom

Kirby

2019

Children & Society

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“…Second, most of these studies focused on a single lifecourse transition or life-period rather than studying how these transitions develop over the entire lifecycle. In this vein, addressing ‘lifetimes of commitment’ (Andrews, 1991) rather than single moments of political engagement and disengagement could allow us to understand better how political participation ‘comes out and unfolds over time’ (Nolas et al , 2017: 8). Third, previous findings have mainly been based on survey data, neglecting the biographical aspects of political participation.…”

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Lifecourse transitions and participation in political organisations in older Spanish men and women

Serrat

Villar

2019

Ageing and Society

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In recent years, there has been an increasing number of studies addressing older people's political participation. Much of this literature, however, can be criticised for neglecting important aspects of seniors’ political participation, such as its dynamics across the lifecourse, its gendered nature and the influence of the particular socio-political contexts in which participation occurs. In this paper we bring together all these issues to explore the relation between lifecourse transitions and participation in political organisations in Spanish men and women. We conducted life-story interviews with 40 highly engaged older political activists regarding their lifetime story of political commitment, and identified eight different lifecourse transitions affecting their participation in political organisations. Three of these transitions were related to the work domain and five to the family domain. Most of them were clearly gender-dependent, affecting men's and women's engagement in political organisations in different ways and to different degrees. Our study expands on previous research on lifespan-related aspects of political participation by showing that considering biographical, gendered and historical aspects is key to understanding the relationships between life transitions and participation in political organisations across the lifecourse.

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“…More recently, Serrat, Villar, Giuliani, and Zacarés [70] determined that older people who participate in political organizations have higher eudaimonic (which relates to a sense of purpose in life), but not hedonic well-being (which relates to positive emotions), than those who do not. When addressing motivations to participate, it is essential to assume a life-course perspective, as those with a life-story of political commitment are more likely to continue participating with older age [71].…”

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What Activities Count as Active Aging? The Challenge of Classifying Diversity

Villar¹,

Celdrán²,

Serrat³

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Active aging is a concept used to describe and promote lifestyles that contribute to a healthy aging process. However, these lifestyles vary widely, and the concept of active aging encompasses many activities. This paper considers two axes to classify the range of activities that can contribute to active aging: the resources needed to carry out such activities (low and high-resource needs) and the main orientation of the activities (self-oriented vs. activity with others). To illustrate this classification, three types of participation were analyzed, including in leisure activities, high-demand sports, and political organizations. The presented discussion compares these three activities, reveals challenges for future research using this new classification, highlights the practical implications of diversity when promoting forms of active aging.

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Political activism across the life course

Cited by 28 publications

References 57 publications

Children’s Agency in the Modern Primary Classroom

Children’s Agency in the Modern Primary Classroom

Lifecourse transitions and participation in political organisations in older Spanish men and women

What Activities Count as Active Aging? The Challenge of Classifying Diversity

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