Awakenings

Clifford, Rebecca; Gildea, Robert; Mark, James

Abstract

This chapter presents the diverse ways in which a range of activists they make sense of their journeys into activism across Europe. The focus is on how many factors—the legacies of the Second World War, the Cold War context, encounters with poverty or exclusion, confrontations with institutional authority, and moral, political or sexual crises—are bound up together, in varying combinations, in the biographical self-understanding of activists. Activists have a fundamental task: to make sense of the beginning of their revolt by bringing the individual life and the collective struggle together in a narrative, justifying the decision or commitment to become an activist, and explaining the pathway into revolt in relation to broader life experience

Citation

Clifford, R., Gildea, R., & Mark, J. (2013). Awakenings. In R. Gildea, J. Mark, & A. Warring (Eds.), Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt (20-45). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199587513.003.0002

• Online Publication Date: Jun 13, 2013
• Publication Date: 2013-06
• Deposit Date: Oct 3, 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 20-45
• Book Title: Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt
• Chapter Number: 1
• ISBN: 9780199587513
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199587513.003.0002
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1756237