Talking politics in everyday family lives

Nolas, Sevasti‐Melissa; Varvantakis, Christos; Aruldoss, Vinnarasan

doi:10.1080/21582041.2017.1330965

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“…More recently, political economist Will Davies (in press) has suggested that as: '[public life] becomes corrupted, [sociology] must delve further into the private realm in search of some future public'. Meanwhile, research on political talk supports the idea that conversations of a political and public nature require the most intimate and trusting of private spaces and personal relationships in order to be aired (Nolas et al, 2017b). The public and the private, the personal and the political are not just analytical counterparts to be explored and experimented with.…”

Section: Resonant Sites Of Activismmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…As Guillemot and Price (2017) note, much of the political socialisation literature has confined itself to the study of youth and the influences of home, school and media on their political attitude formation (see also Barassi, 2017;Nolas, Varvantakis, & Aruldoss, 2017b). Important though these influences are known to be (Pancer, 2015), a focus on people's various relationships to time (age, life course, and generation), its experience and passage provides insights into the vicissitudes of life and political activism alike.…”

Section: Notes On 'Political Activism'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Rosen (2017) draws our attention to the playground and children's imaginative play as a site in which gender norms and social inequalities of childhood might be challenged. While Nolas et al (2017b) demonstrate how the everyday spaces of the home can be transformed into temporary agoras for political oration.…”

Section: Resonant Sites Of Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research on political activism also has started to take a comparative approach by, for example, contrasting experiences across European and South Asian societies (Barassi, 2017;Nolas et al, 2017b;Walker, 2017). Such cross-national conversations contextualise political experiences allowing for commonalities and differences across cultures to emerge that challenge universalising notions of both politics and participation (Nolas, Varvantakis, & Aruldoss, 2017a;2017b). Barassi (2017) argues that much of the literature on political activism has to-date neglected the biographical aspects of how activism comes about.…”

Section: Encountering Activism Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, reflections on an action research educational intervention for language learning and youth inclusion over a 20-year period (1997-to date) in the multi-cultural borderland of North-Eastern Greece (Dragonas and Vassiliou, 2017) reveals the ways in which intergroup relationships are historically sedimented and explores how they can be locally reconfigured through dialogue and joint activities. Research on political activism also has started to take a comparative approach by, for example, contrasting experiences across European and South Asian societies (Barassi, 2017;Nolas et al, 2017b;Walker, 2017). Such cross-national conversations contextualise political experiences allowing for commonalities and differences across cultures to emerge that challenge universalising notions of both politics and participation (Nolas, Varvantakis, & Aruldoss, 2017a;2017b).…”

Section: Encountering Activism Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

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Political activism across the life course

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Aruldoss

2017

Contemporary Social Science

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The study of political activism has neglected people's personal and social relationships to time. Age, life course and generation have become increasing important experiences for understanding political participation and political outcomes (e.g. Brexit), and current policies of austerity across the world are affecting people of all ages. At a time when social science is struggling to understand the rapid and unexpected changes to the current political landscape, the essay argues that the study of political activism can be enriched by engaging with the temporal dimensions of people's everyday social experiences because it enables the discovery of political activism in mundane activities as well as in banal spaces. The authors suggest that a values-based approach that focuses on people's relationships of concern would be a suitable way to surface contemporary political sites and experiences of activism across the life course and for different generations. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture

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2023

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As deliberative democracy is gaining practical momentum, the question arises whether citizens’ attitudes toward everyday political talk are congruent with this ‘talk-centric’ vision of democratic governance. Drawing on a unique survey we examine how German citizens view the practice of discussing politics in everyday life, and what determines these attitudes. We find that only a minority appreciates talking about politics. To explain these views, we combine Fishbein and Ajzen’s Expectancy-Value Model of attitudes toward behaviors with perspectives from research on interpersonal communication. Individuals’ interest in politics emerges as the only relevant political disposition for attitudes toward everyday political talk. Its impact is surpassed and conditioned by conflict orientations and other enduring psychological dispositions, as well as contextual circumstances like the closeness of social ties and the amount of disagreement experienced during conversations. The beneficial effect of political interest dwindles under adverse interpersonal conditions. The social dimension of everyday political talk thus appears to outweigh its political dimension.

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Metaphors we experiment with in multimodal ethnography

Varvantakis

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2019

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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In this paper, we argue for a view of analysis as an embodied practice and review others' testimonies of carrying out multimodal ethnography. This review suggests that metaphors are key for communicating what happens to us in the course of the research and our subsequent sensemaking practices. We identify four metaphors for communicating data collection and analytic practices: composing, meandering, plundering and time travel. We then turn to our own multimodal fieldwork with children in middle childhood, to think about the experiences and emergent metaphors that shaped our practice on an international study looking at the relationship between childhood and public life. Children's play was instructive in our own formation as multimodal ethnographers. We provide examples of the ways in which children recruited us into their play, the ways in which play taught us about what matters to children, and finally, how we took play into our own analytical practices. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Talking politics in everyday family lives

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Political activism across the life course

Political activism across the life course

Do people like to discuss politics? A study of citizens’ political talk culture

Metaphors we experiment with in multimodal ethnography

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