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This book is an exploration of the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime. Through extensive interviews, it focuses on the lives of fifteen British men and women, aged between seventy and ninety, who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice. From Dorothy Greenald's commitment to provision of adequate housing for prisoners' families to Walter Gregory's active service in the Spanish Civil War and Trevor Huddleston's vital role in the international Anti-Apartheid Movement, these men and women have been involved in both local and international struggles. Respondents discuss topics ranging from the importance of gender identity for their political activism, to their perceptions of recent events in Eastern Europe. The work is unusual in combining an investigation of individual lifelong political commitment with a wider consideration of the formation of social identity, aging and the interplay between individuals and their environment. Lifetimes of commitment will have a wide appeal amongst social psychologists, sociologists, social and oral historians and political scientists.

Political participation --- Social reformers --- History --- Interviews. --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Reformers --- Interviews --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology --- Political participation - Great Britain - History - 20th century. --- Social reformers - Great Britain - Interviews.

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Imagination. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Psychological aspects.

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Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational categories is what lies at the center of the chapters and commentaries collected in this book. The book comprises six target chapters by leading scholars in the field. Twenty-two commentators discuss these chapters from a number of diverse vantage points, followed by responses from the six original authors. A final chapter by the editor of the book series concludes the book.

Analyse du discours narratif --- Discours narratif -- Analyse --- Discourse analysis [Narrative ] --- Narratieve teksten -- Tekstgrammatica --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Teksten [Narratieve ] -- Tekstgrammatica --- Teksten [Verhalende ] -- Tekstgrammatica --- Textes narratifs -- Analyse du discours --- Verhalende teksten -- Tekstgrammatica --- Literary rhetorics --- Sociolinguistics --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Discourse analysis. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Narration (Rhetoric)

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Biography --- Biography as a literary form --- Research --- Methodology. --- Study and teaching.

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"Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough for first-time researchers, but also as a window onto the more complex questions and difficulties that all researchers in this area face. The authors guide readers through current debates about how to obtain and analyse narrative data, about the nature of narrative, the place of the researcher, the limits of researcher interpretations, and the significance of narrative work in applied and in broader political contexts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Narrative inquiry (Research method) --- Social sciences --- Research --- Methodology. --- Narrative analysis (Research method) --- Narrative research (Research method) --- Narratological inquiry (Research method) --- Social research and statistics --- Sociology