ISBN:
9781108609159
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (362 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Neveu, Erik Activists Forever? : Long-Term Impacts of Political Activism
Abstract:
Using a global array of case studies, this collection explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Activists' Trajectories in Space and Time: An Introduction -- Challenging Theoretical and Disciplinary Boundaries -- Biographical Consequences of Activism -- Political Socialization -- Political Participation, and Movement-Parties Interdependencies -- Four Main Objectives of the Book -- Studying Activism as a Process -- Exposure to Political Events and Organizational Modeling -- Activism as a Tool for Change -- Individuals In Context: Toward a Multi-Level Model of Analysis -- Structure of the Book -- From Shades of Red (or Blue) to Shades of Grey: The Ageing of Yesterday's Activists -- Terrorist Violence, State Responses, and Activists' Experiences -- Biographical Trajectories in Times of Transition: Activists versus Politicians, Activists into Politicians? -- I From Shades of Red (or Blue) to Shades of Grey: The Ageing of Yesterday's Activists -- Introduction -- 1 The Diversity of Activist Outcomes: The Role of Ideology in Shaping Trajectories of Participation -- The Biographical Consequences of Activism -- The Role of Ideology -- The Big Picture: A Quantitative Analysis of Ideology and Engagement -- The Micro-Context of Participation: Ideology and Engagement -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Appendix A Comparison of Total Sample and Participants in Contentious Political Action -- Appendix B Interview Sample Information -- Appendix C Interview Sample Characteristics by Group -- 2 Biographical Impacts of Activism in the French ''May ´68'' -- Political Trajectories Shaped by Participation in May ´68 -- The Political Event at the Origin of Collective Entries into Activism -- What Kinds of Activism in the Post-1968 Years? -- Peter: Biographical Impacts of the Breakdown of Social Barriers
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Conversions of Activists' Dispositions in the Professional Sphere -- Professional Trajectories Impacted by Participation in May ´68 -- From Telephone Operator to Social Sciences Instructor: Political, Professional, and Conjugal Reconversions -- 3 Life Stories of Former French Activists of ''68'': Using Biographies to Investigate the Outcomes of Social Movements -- Social Movement as Long-Haul Activist Factories -- Continuities and Re-Commitments -- Militant Habitus? -- Activists as Social Change Entrepreneurs -- Inventing Causes and Redefining Styles of Commitment -- Reinterpreting Jobs and Roles -- Some ´68ers Paradoxes: Commitment, Habitus, and Outcomes -- Reluctant Social Climbers -- Micro-Social Change and Its Limitations -- 4 Women in Political Activism: The Biographical Resonances of the ´68 Student Movement in a Latin American Context -- Introduction -- Stage One (1968-1973): Insertion into the Movement. Biographical Affinities, Family Integration and Managing Affectivity -- Attitudinal Affinity -- Managing Emotions -- Stage Two (1972-1983): Political Recruitment -- Inspiring Leadership -- From Love to Politics, the Shift in Life Course -- Stage Three (1983-1989): Leadership Commitment and the Struggle for Hegemony -- Leadership Training -- From Hegemonic Discourse to the Battle for Hegemony of Discourse -- Stage Four (1990-2000): Withdrawal from the Party and Commitment to the Movement -- ''I Retreat from the Party, but Not from the Movement'' -- Activists . . . Forever? -- II Terrorist Violence, State Repression, and Activists' Experiences -- Introduction -- 5 Biographical Effects of Engagement: The ''Activist Generation'' of the 1970s and Its Children in Morocco -- Authoritarian Stabilization and the Creation of Political Organizations -- The Transformation of Political Activism: Release from Prison, Demobilization and Re-Involvement
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The Role of Networks and Activist Ties -- ''Join Up, They Said! It's a Man's Life, They Said!'' but Where? -- The 1970s and 1980s: Professional Consequences of Political Involvement -- The 1990s: a Relative Opening Up of Professional and Activist Spheres -- Activism's Impact on the Second Generation: the Heirs and the 20th February -- Conclusion -- 6 From Militancy to Activism? Life Trajectories of Sikh Women Combatants -- Tearing Down the Curtain: Women in the Movement for Khalistan -- Militancy and Its Afterlife: The Trajectories of Two Sikh Women Fighters -- From Militancy to Social Work: The Trajectory of Ravinder Kaur -- A Reluctant Warrior Turned Legal Activist: The Trajectory of Amandeep Kaur -- Turning Points and the Uneven Distribution of Bifurcative Resources -- Conclusion -- 7 ''Married Forever,'' Activists Forever?: What the Multi-Level and Interactionist Approaches to the Study of ''Exit'' Reveal about Disengagement from Radical Organizations in Contemporary Turkey -- A Context of Political Radicalization -- First Engagement -- Violence and Its Impact -- The Disengagement Process -- Exile and the Reversibility of the Process -- Conclusion -- 8 Contextualizing the Biographical Outcomes of Provisional IRA Former Activists: A Structure-Agency Dynamic -- Data Collection -- The Provisional IRA -- Mobilization and Prison Years -- The Biographical Outcomes -- Conclusion -- III Biographical Trajectories in Times of Transition: Social Movement Activists into Politicians? -- Introduction -- 9 When Prophecy Succeeds: The Political Failure of Dissidents in the New Czech Democracy -- Introduction -- The Emergence of a Community of Insubordination -- A (Trans)Formative Disappointment: The Aftermath of the Prague Spring -- A Shared Social Segmentation -- The Charter 77: Collective Logics -- From Resistance to Government: Splits among Dissidents
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Collectives Marked by the Former Dissident Communities -- The ''Wise Rebels'': The Charter as a Legacy -- The ''Converted Conservatives'': An Ideological Revelation -- From Communitarian Sociability to Open Activism: Democratic Elitism -- A Premium on Individual Autonomy -- A Democracy without Tribunes? -- Conclusion -- 10 From Grassroots Activism to the Cabinet. Round-Trip: The Puzzling Political Career of a Peasant Leader in Post-Communist Poland -- Sequence 1: An Unlikely Entry Into Activism -- Sequence 2: A Gradual Intensification and Professionalisation of Activism -- Sequence 3: A Journey Into Political Wilderness -- Sequence 4: A Spectacular Come-Back to High-Intensity Professional Activism -- Sequence 5: Reaching the Apex of the State -- Sequence 6: A Tragic End to an Unstoppable Political Career -- Conclusion -- 11 Red T-Shirt or Executive Suit: About Some Biographical Consequences of Contentious Engagement in the Workers' Party in Recife, Brazil -- Party Activists Caught in an Institutionalization Process -- Party Institutionalization: A Multifaceted Process -- The PT: From Contention to Institutionalization -- The Sinuous Paths to Institutionalization - The PT and Its Activists in Recife -- Upward Social Mobility -- Political Professionalization in the Backstage -- Learning to Be a Professional Politician -- Facing Party Change: Loyalties and Disenchantments -- Conclusion -- Addendum: Life History as a Tool for Sociological Inquiry -- References -- Index
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