Citations:granarchist

English citations of granarchist

Noun: "(UK, informal) an older woman who espouses radical or militant political views"

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• 1998, Jonathan Mark Anderson, transcription of a field diary entry, in "Environmental Direct Action: Making Space for New Forms of Political Community?", dissertation submitted to the University of Bristol (2000), age 247:

  Other 'habits' made them more human (theyd be like if it they were them too^[sic]) they really got into it, benders etc stuff of real life. Radicalised them! Increasingly wider shift in values, spirituality, consumerism habits.

  'granarchists'

• 2006, "Dover And Out: They Think It's All Dover...It Is Now", in Weekly SchNEWs (Brighton, England), 5 May 2006, page 1:

  The anti-live exports campaigns saw animal rights move out of the anarcho-punk ghetto and become a street movement which ranged across generations (the so-called granarchists with their eldritch scream of “Eeeevil”).

• 2009, Jane Nicholl, in "I'm Not A Real Woman", Class War, Issue #97, Autumn/Winter 2009/2010, page 7:

  I am an^[sic] 58 year-old granarchist.

• 2012, Jemma Redgrave, "Time and place", The Sunday Times (UK), 11 March 2012:

  Olive called herself a granarchist and prided herself on not having rules.

• 2017, "Obituary: Joan Court", Viva!Life, Spring 2017, page 33:

  Joan used her advancing age to her advantage with the media and as one of Cambridge's wonderfully infamous 'granarchists', she staged sit-ins, hunger strikes and chained herself to railings.

• 2020, Fahim Amir, Being and Swine: The End of Nature (As We Knew It), unnumbered page:

  But what if feeding pigeons reveals contours of a large-scale affective militancy among older people in the public space? When as "granarchists" they pursue their publicly condemned practice of feeding the pigeons, old women really do take on joggers, park wardens, and the like.

• 2020, "About The Contributors", in The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education (eds. Colin Cameron, Helen Casey, Hugh McLaughlin, Joe Duffy, & Peter Beresford), unnumbered page:

  She does so in her capacity as a White European cisgender lesbian, self-confessed granarchist, protest poet and doctor of critical community psychology.