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Deconstructing the Role of Generations in Social Movements: Time, Events, and Legacies

Deconstructing the Role of Generations in Social Movements: Time, Events, and Legacies

Hardcover

Series: The Mobilization Social Movements, Protest, and Culture

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1032715782
ISBN13: 9781032715780
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 18 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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,

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