Activists Forever examines the personal consequences of activism, a topic that had passed under the radar of research, and triggers now a renewed attention among scholars and the broader audience of people interested in social movements. It focusses on the impact of social movements on the life-course of movement participants. While revolution may finally appear as an unreachable goal, the impact of activists on social change remains indisputable. In the workplace, civil society or private relations they experienced new behaviors that spreaded among the population in general.
The volume makes a significant contribution to research on social movement outcomes by achieving three aims: theoretically, by showing the importance of hitherto undervalued topics in the study of social movements outcomes; methodologically, by expanding the scientific boundaries of this research field through an interdisciplinary approach and new methods of analysis; and substantially, by providing new empirical evidence about social movement outcomes worldwide.