Telling the time: researching generation politics

In: Families, relationships and societies: an international journal of research and debate, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 465-468

Abstract

This contribution explores how far notions of 'political generation' – formed in and through common experience and agency – is sustainable. It draws on a research study to show how generation can be understood as multifaceted (traversed by multiple social divisions and identities), dynamic (rather than a static form of belonging) and recursive (rather than denoting clear, temporally sequenced, distinctions). However, a focus on generation does offer one important way of 'telling the (political) time'.