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Through variety of empirical case studies and theoretical contributions and beginning with the individual as the entity through which activism can best be understood, this book considers the ways in which social and political participation can be approached on the scale of the subject and his or her biography.
List of contents
Introduction Carlos Ramírez
Individual engagement in social activism: an interactionist accountPaul Lichterman
The ogre and the activist. The sociology of activist careers in a structural interactionist perspective Oliver Fillieule
Thinking the engagement: dispositionalism, contextualism, and observation scalesBernard Lahire
The commanders-educators of the FARC-EP and the links between their biographical trajectories and the guerrillas' organizational plans.Ingrid J. Bolívar and Sergio F. Lizarazo
Individual activism in collective dynamics: some methodological approaches to the practices of -political- resistanceVirginie Laurent
The (Ambivalent) Lives of Others. Reconstructing the Trajectories of Egyptian Revolutionaries Through Social Media Traces and Biographical Interviews.Youssef El Chazli
Individual and collective dimensions of the Parisian revolution of 1789. Historiographic reflections and research strategiesHaim Burstin
QCA and radicalisationCarlos Ramírez
Conclusion: building bridgesCarlos Ramírez
About the author
Carlos Ramírez is a Colombian political scientist and philosopher from the Universidad de los Andes and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at the Universidad de los Andes. His research interests are political and social theory, qualitative research methods, and religion and politics.
Summary
Through variety of empirical case studies and theoretical contributions and beginning with the individual as the entity through which activism can best be understood, this book considers the ways in which social and political participation can be approached on the scale of the subject and his or her biography.
