(Im)Possible Conversations? Activism, Childhood and Everyday Life

Abstract: The paper offers an analytical exploration and points of connection between the categories of activism, childhood and everyday life. We are concerned with the lived experiences of activism and childhood broadly defined and especially with the ways in which people become aware, access, orient themselves to, and act on issues of common concern; in other words what connects people to activism. The paper engages with childhood in particular because childhood remains resolutely excluded from practices of public life and because engaging with activism from the marginalized position of children’s everyday lives provides an opportunity to think about the everyday, lived experiences of activism. Occupying a space ‘before method’, the paper engages with autobiographical narratives of growing up in the Communist left in the USA and the historical events of occupying Greek schools in the 1990s. These recounted experiences offer an opportunity to disrupt powerful categories currently in circula.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4933

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: (Im)Possible Conversations? Activism, Childhood and Everyday Life ; volume:4 ; number:1 ; day:24 ; month:05 ; year:2016 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 4, Heft 1 (24.05.2016)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Nolas, Sevasti-Melissa ; Varvantakis, Christos ; Aruldoss, Vinnarasan

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v4i1.536
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004395467165577
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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