Description
Book SynopsisDecolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters'' versions of events to counterbalance more visible narratives that emerged from state-controlled media centers and ultimately describes how the very education systems put in place to serve the French state during the colonial period ended up functioning as the crucible of postcolonial revolt. Hendrickson not only unearths complex connections among activists and their transnational networks across Tunis, Paris, and Dakar but also weaves together their overlapping stories and participation in France''s May ''68.
Using global protest to demonstrate the enduring links between France and its former colonies, Decolonizing 1968 traces the historical relationship
Table of Contents
Prologue: An (In)Tense Reflection
Introduction: 1968 in Postcolonial Time and Space
1. Colonialism, Intellectual Migration, and the New African University
Part One: 1968(s) in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar
2. Tunis: Student Protest, Transnational Activism, and Human Rights
3. Paris: Bringing the Third World to the Metropole
4. Dakar: The "Other" May '68
Part Two: Activism After 1968
5. From Student to Worker Protest in Tunisia
6. Immigrant Activism and Activism for Immigrants in France
7. The Birth of Political Pluralism in Senegal
Conclusion: Toward a Decolonial Order of Things
Notes
Bibliography
Index
