Sixties radicalism and social movement activism : retreat or resurgence? / edited by Bryn Jones and Mike O'Donnell.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2010.
Description
1 online resource (xx, 264 pages) : illustrations

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Available Online

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Series
Anthem world history [More in this series]
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Summary note
Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism' explores and re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical developments of the nineteen sixties and relates them to contemporary social movements and issues.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • Sixties radicalism : creating spaces and leaving legacies / Bryn Jones and Mike O'Donnell
  • All along the watershed : sixties values as defence of community lifeworlds in Britain 1968-2008 / Bryn Jones
  • May's tensions today : France, then and now / Kevin McDonald
  • The war against the war : violence and anticolonialism in the final years of the Estado Novo / Miguel Cardina
  • From Sartre to stevedores : the connections between the Paris barricades and the re-emergence of black trades unions in South Africa / Helen Lunn
  • 1968-was it really a year of social change in Pakistan? / Riaz Ahmed Shaikh
  • Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell
  • Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield
  • The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding
  • Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver
  • Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach
  • Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie
  • When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely
  • Resurgence? The legacy of the sixties to contemporary social movements / Bryn Jones and Mike O'Donnell.
Other title(s)
60s radicalism and social movement activism
ISBN
  • 9781843313403 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1843313405 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9786613377449
  • 6613377449
OCLC
741611620
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