Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists

Taft, Jessica K.

doi:10.1080/21582041.2017.1324173

“…By contrast life history and biographical methods produce rich narrative analyses of the range of stories that activists tell about themselves and their activism. Indeed, as Da Silva (2017), and others (Taft, 2017) have argued narrative itself becomes a resource for making sense and reflecting on one's activism. Meanwhile, ethnographic approaches and the practice of spending time in the field enable researchers to capture children and adults' fleeting and ephemeral encounters with public life such as in the case of political talk in the home (Nolas et al, 2017b).…”

Section: Encountering Activism Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Important though these influences are known to be (Pancer, 2015), a focus on people's various relationships to time (age, life course, and generation), its experience and passage provides insights into the vicissitudes of life and political activism alike. These are insights that can account for both continuity and change in political orientations (Linden & Klandermans, 2007), the pathways in and out of activism or voluntary action (Fisher, 2012) and/or what Jones (2017) calls 'intermittent activism': the ways in which lives criss-cross 'resonant sites of activism' (Rosen, 2017) (see also Taft, 2017 andDa Silva, 2017).…”

Section: Notes On 'Political Activism'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Political activism across the life course

Nolas

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Varvantakis

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Aruldoss

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2017

Contemporary Social Science

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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. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…For example, according to a previous study, formation of activist identity may be affected by relationships with peers and development of social awareness (cf. Traff, 2017). Subsequent studies should look into these variables as predictors of activist "identity and involvement" of teenagers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Parents, Social Media and Materialism in Teenage Activism

Zawadzka

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Iwanowska

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Borchet

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2018

SPB

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The aim of the study was to examine the role of parents, social media and materialism in teenage activism. We surveyed 13-16 year olds (N = 177). We measured teenagers’ activist “identity and involvement” and activist behavior, parents’ activist behavior, as perceived by their offspring, media use frequency and the purpose of social media use. The results indicate that both teenage activist “identity and involvement” and activist behavior are positively related to both the mother and father’s activist behavior but are negatively related to hedonic use of media. Hedonic use of media and gender are predictors of youth activist “identity and involvement” while mother’s activism, hedonic use of media and the teenager’s age are predictors of youth activist behavior. To sum up, the study indicates that mother’s activism and the purpose of media use are related to teenage activism. It also shows that materialism and media use frequency are not significantly linked to teenage activism.

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“…Important though these influences are known to be (Pancer, 2015), a focus on people's various relationships to time (age, life course, and generation), its experience and passage provides insights into the vicissitudes of life and political activism alike. These are insights that can account for both continuity and change in political orientations (Linden & Klandermans, 2007), the pathways in and out of activism or voluntary action (Fisher, 2012) and/or what Jones (2017) calls 'intermittent activism': the ways in which lives criss-cross 'resonant sites of activism' (Rosen, 2017) (see also Taft, 2017 andDa Silva, 2017).…”

Section: Notes On 'Political Activism'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Activism across the Life Course

2019

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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. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists

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