Deconstructing the Role of Generations in Social Movements

Time, Events, and Legacies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-71578-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture

Although questions of how a social group’s shared experiences growing up in particular historical and social contexts shapes their identities, including their political identities, have engaged sociologists of family, youth, citizenship, culture, and political change, few books have so far examined the specific role of generations and generational consciousness in social movement activism. As such, this is the first book to focus exclusively on issues of temporality, events, and generational legacies in social movements. In demonstrating how generational consciousness, and specific frames, narratives, and repertoires of contention are shaped by, and respond to, historical and contemporary meanings of major events and social transformations in different locations, new important questions on race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship are revealed at new, emerging critical junctures in the twenty first century,

With its high-quality chapters and transnational scope, this book will capture several key trends in the role of generations in social movements and explores topics including, contemporary feminism, family, and intergenerational transmission, generationality and political change, rituals and social change, and black politics and US democracy.

This is an invaluable resource for students and academics with an interest in sociology, political science, and the study of social movements and social change, and for policy makers and readers with a general interest in intergenerational conflict, and the challenges of engaging new youth generations in political and democratic structures and processes.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ludvigsen, Jan Andre Lee

Turner, Mark

Grasso, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Chapter 1: Introduction: Deconstructing the role of generations in social movements

Mark Turner, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen and Maria Grasso

Chapter 2: Generations, Crises, Inequalities and Solidarities

Katherine Smith and Maria Grasso

Chapter 3: Legacies, Generations and Cycles in the Contemporary Feminist Movement in Italy

Anastasia Barone and Giada Bonu Rosenkranz

Chapter 4: "Talkn’ bout my generation": Generational learning in the Chilean and Argentinean student movements at the dawn of the 21st century

Gabriela González Vaillant

Chapter 5: Conflict, Succession, or Mutual Influences? Japanese Social Movements in 2010s and Preceding Generations

Takashi Horie

Chapter 6: Post-Movement Generations: Black Politics Protecting Democracy After the Movement for Black Lives

Marcus Board Jr.

Chapter 7: The legacy of the 15M movement: a new generation of activists

Héloïse Nez

Chapter 8: Generational political engagement in soccer-based social movements

Mark Turner and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Turner is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and the author of ‘The Safe Standing Movement in Football: Fan Networks, Tactics, and Mobilizations’ published by Routledge in 2023. He is specifically interested in the application of relational sociology to the study of social networks, social movements, and activism, within different sport and leisure-based contexts. His work has been published the British Journal of Sociology; Sociology; Current Sociology; The Sociological Review; Sociology Compass; and Sociological Research Online.

Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics with Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Jan’s research focuses on the sociology and politics of sport, particularly security, surveillance, supporter movements, and sport mega-events. He has authored several books, including Sport Mega-Events, Security and Covid-19 (Routledge, 2022) and edited several special issues. Moreover, his research has been published in globally leading journals including the British Journal of Sociology, Sociology Compass, Global Networks, Globalizations, Current Sociology, and Journal of Consumer Culture.

Maria Grasso is a Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at Queen Mary University of London. Maria’s research focuses on political sociology, social change, social and political inequalities, political generations, social movements, youth politics, gender gaps and the shift from traditional means of political participation to more diffuse and irregular forms of involvement. Her key research interests revolve around understanding the link between economic, social and political inequalities by looking at the political participation and political attitudes of different groups in terms of generation/age, gender, class, relative deprivation, etc. and their intersections as well as the ways in which crises impact on different groups of citizens with respect to their economic conditions and perceptions, social capital, and their political (re)actions.