Political Activism across the Life Course

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.

• Foreword Introduction: Political activism across the life course 1. Embodying ‘the Next Generation’: children’s everyday environmental activism in India and England 2. Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists 3. Narrative resources and political violence: the life stories of former clandestine militants in Portugal 4. Politicisation in later life: experience and motivations of older people participating in a protest for the first time 5. Talking politics in everyday family lives 6. Digital citizens? Data traces and family life 7. Welfare mothers’ grassroots activism for economic justice 8. Play as activism? Early childhood and (inter)generational politics 9. Educational activism across the divide: empowering youths and their communities 10. Housing choices in later life as unclaimed forms of housing activism 11. Enduring ideals: revisiting Lifetimes of Commitment twenty-five years later