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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453350303321

Autore

Kornetis Kostis

Titolo

Children of the dictatorship : student resistance, cultural politics, and the long 1960s in Greece / / Kostis Kornetis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-78533-033-0

1-4619-5256-5

1-78238-001-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Collana

Protest, culture and society

Disciplina

378.1/98109495

Soggetti

Student movements - Greece - History - 20th century

College students - Political activity - Greece - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Greece Politics and government 1967-1974

Greece Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Chapter 1 - A Changing Society; Chapter 2 - Phoenix with a Bayonet; Chapter 3 - A Mosquito on a Bull; Chapter 4 - Cultural Warfare; Chapter 5 - Ten Months that Shook Greece; Epilogue - ""Everything Links""; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these "children of the dictatorship" managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their "progressive" purposes and how their transnational exchange molded a particular local protest culture. It examines how the students' social and political practices became a major source of pressure on the Co