The Beginnings of Activist Careers in the New Youth Environmentalism. An Actor-based Interactionist Perspective
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Political participation, youth, social movements, climate activismAbstract
In this article we show the beginnings of the activist careers of those young people who protested against the climate crisis during the intense mobilizations of 2019. The notion of career, as a succession of changes with an objective and a subjective dimension, allows us to show how new activists became involved, the process of learning and stabilization of participation, and the elements that can sustain or frustrate a continued involvement. To this end, we conducted qualitative research involving participant observations and interviews at Fridays For Future and Extinction Rebellion. The results show two main findings: the importance of emotions, that activate new frameworks and create motivations to sustain participation, and the need for the participant's affinity with the collective in norms, strategies and profile, producing self-selection processes.
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