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Autore |
Ross Kristin |
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Titolo |
May '68 and its afterlives / / Kristin Ross |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
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9786612537653 |
9781282537651 |
1282537652 |
9780226728001 |
0226728005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Riots - France - Paris |
France Politics and government 1958- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. The Police Conception of History -- TWO. Forms and Practices -- THREE. Different Windows, Same Faces -- FOUR. Consensus and Its Undoing -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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During May 1968, students and workers in France united in the biggest strike and the largest mass movement in French history. Protesting capitalism, American imperialism, and Gaullism, 9 million people from all walks of life, from shipbuilders to department store clerks, stopped working. The nation was paralyzed-no sector of the workplace was untouched. Yet, just thirty years later, the mainstream image of May '68 in France has become that of a mellow youth revolt, a cultural transformation stripped of its violence and profound sociopolitical implications. Kristin Ross shows how the current official memory of May '68 came to serve a political agenda antithetical to the movement's aspirations. She examines the roles played by sociologists, repentant ex-student leaders, and the mainstream media in giving what was a political event a predominantly cultural and ethical meaning. Recovering the political language of May '68 through the tracts, pamphlets, and documentary film footage of the era, Ross reveals how |
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the original movement, concerned above all with the question of equality, gained a new and counterfeit history, one that erased police violence and the deaths of participants, removed workers from the picture, and eliminated all traces of anti-Americanism, anti-imperialism, and the influences of Algeria and Vietnam. May '68 and Its Afterlives is especially timely given the rise of a new mass political movement opposing global capitalism, from labor strikes and anti-McDonald's protests in France to the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle. |
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