May '68

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralyzing France?s economy and bringing the country to the verge of a leftist revolution. This book studies the life trajectories of many ordinary protestors during the period, using statistics and personal narratives to analyze how this activism arose, its impact on people?s personal and p…

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :May '68 / Julie Pagis.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©[2018]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Amsterdam University Press
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©[2018]

Notes

"Originally published as Mai 68, un pave dans leur histoire (2014)"--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (321 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789048534128, 9048534127
oclc:on1241508707
LC Classification:HM883
Dewey Decimal:303.48/40944

The 1990s: re-enchantment and professional evolutionConclusion: activism and social mobility; 5 Changing one's life to change the world? The politicisation of the private sphere; Politicising the private sphere; Family: I hate you!; Marital breakdowns: a consequence of May '68?; Turning to psychoanalysis: a therapy for fractured habitus?; Redefining the role of parents; Anne: remaining faithful to the break; 1949-1968: the baby boom blues; 1970-1974: Maoism, becoming an etabli, theatre, communal living and motherhood; Sparking a peasant revolt: from disillusion to disillusion

Students in factories and workers in universities: inversed trajectoriesBecoming an etabli to "go among the masses"; Workers at university: Gilles, from postal worker to professor; Socially improbable encounters "overlooked"; Activism through popular education; Fran cois, revolution through popular education; Louis: community work through formal qualifications; 1972: The confrontation between militant approaches to community work and official qualifications; 1975-1983: the golden days of the popular education revolution; 1980s: professionalization and disenchantment

How did the event influence the participa…

Subjects

Contestation -- 20e siècle. -- France France Generationsbeziehung HISTORY -- Social History Maiunruhen Politisierung Protest movements Protest movements -- 20th century. -- F… Social Sciences (General)