Author : Hélène Le Dantec Lowry,Ambre Ivol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317259312
Generations of Social Movements by Hélène Le Dantec Lowry,Ambre Ivol Pdf
French political culture has long been seen as a model of leftist militancy, while the left in the United States is often perceived in terms of organizational discontinuity. Yet, the crisis of social democracy today suggests that at a time when the archetypal European welfare state is in danger, critics and citizens interested in understanding or reviving progressive politics are invited to consider the United States, where modes of creative activism recurrently demonstrate potentialities for a renewed leftist culture. Using a transatlantic perspective, this volume identifies activist influence through the designation or rejection of specific intellectual and militant figures across generations, and it examines various narrative modes used by militants to write their own history.