This study explores how young activists in Italy responded to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic using sixteen longitudinal qualitative interviews conducted in 2018 and 2020. Our fieldwork suggests that the Covid-19 crisis did not resonate with any significant shift in the trajectory of participation. At the same time, three major empirical observations with regard to time reappropriation, care practices, and digital activism were made, all of which worked in different ways according to the interviewees’ trajectories of participation. This research extends beyond the Covid-19 crisis and contributes to the literature on political participation by providing a way of investigating how activists respond to critical events in different ways depending on their trajectories of participation.

本研究通过在 2018 年和 2020 年进行的 16 次纵向定性访谈，探讨了意大利的年轻活动家如何应对第一波 Covid-19 大流行。我们的实地调查表明，Covid-19 危机并未与任何重大变化轨迹产生共鸣参与。同时，对时间再分配、护理实践和数字行动主义进行了三项主要的实证观察，所有这些观察都根据受访者的参与轨迹以不同的方式发挥作用。这项研究超越了 Covid-19 危机，并通过提供一种调查活动家如何根据他们的参与轨迹以不同方式应对关键事件的方式，为政治参与的文献做出了贡献。