The May 1968 Events In France

Author : Kristin Ross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0226728005

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May '68 and Its Afterlives by Kristin Ross Pdf

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 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.

Author : Keith A. Reader,Khursheed Wadia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349227020

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The May 1968 Events in France by Keith A. Reader,Khursheed Wadia Pdf

The multiple impact of the May 1968 events in France is here reviewed and analysed, initially through a narrative account of the events themselves and then through a systematic survey of the various manners in which they have been interpreted and reproduced in France. This covers successively political, social/sociological, and cultural texts - first-hand accounts along with works by political activists and academic social scientists - before moving to a consideration of fictional works (novels and feature films) dealing with or set during the events.

Author : Daniel Singer
Publisher : Hill & Wang
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : 0809078538

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Prelude to Revolution by Daniel Singer Pdf

Author : Margaret Atack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0198715153

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May 68 in French Fiction and Film by Margaret Atack Pdf

The uprising of May 1968, during which tanks rolled onto the streets of Paris, was a radically defining moment in French intellectual life. It signalled the rise of 'new wave' cinema and the arrival of the 'post structuralist' literary-philosophy of Derrida, Foucault, and others. This is the first book-length study of May '68 in French fiction and film.

Author : Carole Fink,Philipp Gassert,Detlef Junker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521646375

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1968: The World Transformed by Carole Fink,Philipp Gassert,Detlef Junker Pdf

1968: The World Transformed presents a global perspective on the tumultuous events of the most crucial year in the era of the Cold War. By interpreting 1968 as a transnational phenomenon, authors from Europe and the United States explain why the crises of 1968 erupted almost simultaneously throughout the world. Together, the eighteen chapters provide an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the rise and fall of protest movements worldwide. The book represents an effort to integrate international relations, the role of media, and the cross-cultural exchange of people and ideas into the history of that year. 1968 emerges as a global phenomenon because of the linkages between domestic and international affairs, the powerful influence of the media, the networks of communication among activists, and the shared opposition to the domestic and international status quo in the name of freedom and self-determination.

Author : Andrew Feenberg,Jim Freedman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791490631

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When Poetry Ruled the Streets by Andrew Feenberg,Jim Freedman Pdf

More than a history, this book is a passionate reliving of the French May Events of 1968. The authors, ardent participants in the movement in Paris, documented the unfolding events as they pelted the police and ran from the tear gas grenades. Their account is imbued with the impassioned efforts of the students to ignite political awareness throughout society. Feenberg and Freedman select documents, graffiti, brochures, and posters from the movement and use them as testaments to a very different and exciting time. Their commentary, informed by the subsequent development of French culture and politics, offers useful background information and historical context for what may be the last great revolutionary challenge to the capitalist system.

Author : Mitchell Abidor
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849352994

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May Made Me by Mitchell Abidor Pdf

Q: “You threw paving stones at [the cops]?” A: “Oh yeah. I had no problem doing that. And I threw marbles as well that we stole from stores. And towards the end we even managed to steal tractors from construction sites and we knocked over trees with them.” The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative, and influential, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, and factories and universities were occupied. Before it was all over, children, homemakers, and the elderly were swept up in the life-changing events that targeted bureaucratic capitalism and the staid Communist Party. The French state was on the ropes and feared civil war or revolution. Decades later, here are the eye-opening oral testimonies of those young rebels who demanded the impossible. Published on the 50th anniversary of those momentous events, May Made Me presents the legacy of the uprising: how those explosive experiences changed both the individual and history. “These powerful and moving testimonies create an eye-opening account of the inspiring events of May ’68, which are more relevant for today’s activists than ever before.” —Paul Mason, author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

Author : Edward Shorter,Charles Tilly
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521202930

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Strikes in France 1830-1968 by Edward Shorter,Charles Tilly Pdf

Monograph tracing the historical evolution of strike and unofficial strike activities in France from 1830 to 1968 - covers trade unionization, the impact of industrialization and urbanization, etc. Bibliography pp. 401 to 412, graphs, maps, references and statistical tables.

Author : Daniel Singer
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89017319799

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Prelude to Revolution: France in May, 1968 by Daniel Singer Pdf

Author : Angelo Quattrocchi,Tom Nairn
Publisher : Verso
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1859842909

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The Beginning of the End by Angelo Quattrocchi,Tom Nairn Pdf

Provides an eyewitness account of the 1968 riots in Paris.

Author : Richard Vinen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141982533

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The Long '68 by Richard Vinen Pdf

The 'long 68' saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around 10 million French workers struck and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer term implications - terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968. Bill Clinton and even Tony Blair are, in many ways, the product of 68. THE LONG '68 is a striking and original attempt, half a century on, to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time.

Author : Laurence Wylie,Franklin D. Chu,Mary Terrall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Paris
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036181001

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France: the Events of May-June 1968 by Laurence Wylie,Franklin D. Chu,Mary Terrall Pdf

Author : Michael M. Seidman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571816856

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The Imaginary Revolution by Michael M. Seidman Pdf

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.

Author : Philippe Tesson
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9814610682

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May 1968 by Philippe Tesson Pdf

May 1968 brings together the contemporary eye of acclaimed photographer Bruno Barbey and the pen of Illustrious journalist Philippe Tesson to reflect upon the weeks of civil unrest that shook France to its core in 1968. Radio, television and newspapers...The media played a major role in the events, both for the government and the demonstrators. While the popular posters depicted the riot police manning the microphones at the broadcasting service, the newspapers and radio stations took up the defense of the student protesters. Barbey captured the daiy life of the protesters, students and factory workers, immortalising key moments and nights full of violence and confrontations. From the beginning, the entire press corps had seized upon the events, but only the magazine Combat was on the side of the youths. At least until the violence erupted. Tesson, then Editor-in-Chief, relates his memories of the events which reverberated to the very heart of State power in France.

Author : Todd Shepard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226790381

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Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979 by Todd Shepard Pdf

The aftermath of Algeria’s revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.​ Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why—from the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 through the 1970s—highly sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in important public French discussions, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-called sexual revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard’s analysis of both events alongside one another provides a frame that renders visible the ways that the fight for sexual liberation, usually explained as an American and European invention, developed out of the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.