Political participation, commitment and militant career. A proposal for the study of partisanship in the context of global activism

Abstract

In this article, we proposed to analyze participation and political commitment through the study of activist biographies. The objective is to give an account of how a successful activist trajectory of more than passing temporal relevance is constructed. In this way, the article studies the forms of contemporary activism, with the aim of answering if it is possible to think of political participation as sustained activism; and what are the resources that the social sciences possess to differentiate the different types of activism in an age of globalization. To answer the questions raised, a longitudinal study of activist trajectories was carried out, examining objective and subjective aspects, based on the narration of the activists themselves, recovering the perspective developed by Howard Becker. Methodologically, a qualitative perspective was used, based on the life story technique.