(Dis)engagement and political conviction: compared activist trajectories in the Middle-East - Larzillière, Pénélope
How are political conviction built up and ideologies perceived, assumed, interpreted and experienced by the activists? What do they see in them and to what extent is it possible or not to connect their trajectories of involvement and disinvolvement? Attention will be turned to the links between involvement and political conviction in the Middle East by comparing long-term activist trajectories from various persuasions: islamist, nationalist and leftist. In the activist paths, three kinds of experiences will be specifically focused on: first commitment and affiliation process, career changes and shifts, disengagement. The analysis of these experiences shows the role of political emotions, and furthermore that ideologies may also be lifestyles and are rarely disowned, unlike the organizations that represent them.
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