RESEARCH

Aging Activisms is a multi-project program of research that seeks to understand, support, and document diverse stories of activism, focusing on those most often omitted from historical narratives and from the academy. It is comprised of a number of interrelated projects, which collectively challenge popular understandings of what is considered “activism,” including formal protest as well as artistic practices, ceremony, land-based work, and memory projects, among others. These projects also seek to widen notions of “aging” beyond the experiences of people over a certain age, to consider activisms across the lifecourse and our connections as social changers across different generations. Aging Activisms pushes the epistemic and methodological boundaries of social movement and aging scholarship, drawing extensively on intergenerational storytelling processes as critical forms of knowledge production. Specific projects also involve documenting oral histories, facilitating participatory media creation, and analyzing activist archiving practices. 

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As an anti-oppressive collective, we are committed to valuing different knowledges and to engaging critically with what it means to practice research for social change on colonized lands.