TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Age has not received much attention in the literature on social movements, but it is an important part of human identity. Like other people, activists engage in age-related “identity work.” By studying age dynamics – cooperation and conflict between and among age-based groups – we can learn about collective identity and conflict. This chapter examines age-related discourse and interaction in the feminist movement in Argentina. As the movement has grown and gained momentum over the past 15 years, younger women have joined movement pioneers. Drawing on data from interviews with activists and participant observation in Buenos Aires during three periods (1998, 2001–2003, and 2011), the study examines narratives as an aspect of age-related identity work. While discourse about distance and conflict were common in the earlier periods, when the movement’s pioneers dominated, narratives about cooperation and respect surfaced in the later period as young women shared the movement with older ones. In movements with multiple age-based cohorts, age gains salience with interaction.
VL  - 37
SN  - 978-1-78441-105-3, 978-1-78441-106-0/0163-786X
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-786X20140000037003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20140000037003
AU  - Borland Elizabeth
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Age Dynamics and Identity: Conflict and Cooperation among Feminists in Buenos Aires
T2  - Intersectionality and Social Change
T3  - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 83
EP  - 106
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -