Student movements

Throughout Colombia’s early Twentieth Century, university students carved out political importance and played a critical role in precipitating major political events. The student mobilizations in 1909 toppled a regime, while helping end the Conservative Party’s control of the st…

This dissertation examines how three contemporary Mexican intellectuals confront the cultural milieu and political economy of the neoliberal era by revising the utopian imaginaries of Mexico’s major 20th century student movements. Building on recent scholarship on Mexican histor…

After the Cold War and fall of Communism in the East bloc, a dramatic transformation took place in world geopolitics known as the third wave of democratization. From the 1970s to the 1990s, third wave democracies became a foil to military dictatorships and Marxist-style juntas t…

The study examines Tunisian students and the role that they played in Tunisia's struggle for independence from French colonial rule. An analysis of a nationalist movement from the students' perspective, illuminates an element of society which had been neglected by scholars befor…