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.
發表於2024-11-24
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圖書標籤: 曆史 May'68 英文 理論 法國 戰後法國 六八 worldhistory
補標 該書對五月風暴的解讀是從記憶問題入手的,和常見的解讀不太一樣,較有啓發性。
評分Tracing the seed of May back to the Algerian war in the 50s; Emphasizing its ignored "equality" side; disclosing the distortion of the narratives in the 70s and 80s (journalism and media: personalizing leaders, sociologists: promoting the concept of youth, student, generation instead of mass); its resurrection in the winter strike of 1995
評分太牛逼瞭。讀它的時候像大雄讀漫畫一樣氣喘籲籲。
評分補標 該書對五月風暴的解讀是從記憶問題入手的,和常見的解讀不太一樣,較有啓發性。
評分補標 該書對五月風暴的解讀是從記憶問題入手的,和常見的解讀不太一樣,較有啓發性。
May '68 and Its Afterlives 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載