Description
Book SynopsisExplores the wide-ranging impact of 1968 and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations
Trade ReviewBringing together the fields of visual culture, art history, film and media studies, philosophy, and history, The Long 1968 illuminates the often-overlooked histories of 1968. . . . [T]he diverse sources and methodologies makes this a welcome addition that encourages further avenues of research.
* The Journal of American History *
[T]he thorough descriptions in the very useful introduction and the internal coherence of each section of the book [and] the wide-ranging selections are quite navigable. There are pieces of interest here to scholars working in any of the areas these essays engage, particularly those teaching social movements, transnationalism, performance, representation, and cultural politics.Winter 2015
* Register of the Kentucky Historical Society *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction Jasmine Alinder, A. Aneesh, Daniel J. Sherman, and Ruud van Dijk
Part 1. 1968, the Text
1. Foucault's 1968 Bernard Gendron
2. Palimpsests of '68: Theorizing Labor after Adorno Richard Langston
3. What's Left of the Right to the City? Judit Bodnar
Part 2. Locating Politics
4. The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960–1975 Jeremi Suri
5. Invisible Humanism: An African 1968 and Its Aftermaths James Ferguson
6. Pushing Luck Too Far: '68, Northern Ireland, and Nonviolence Simon Prince
7. Mexico 1968 and the Art(s) of Memory Jacqueline E. Bixler
Part 3. Bodies, Protest, and Art
8. White Power, Black Power, and the 1968 Olympic Protests Martin A. Berger
9. Bodies Count: The Sixties Body in American Politics Robert O. Self
10. Beginning 9 Evenings Michelle Kuo
11. Sensorial Techniques of the Self: From the Jouissance of May '68 to the Economy of the Delay Noit Banai
Part 4. 1968, the Movie
12. Tempered Nostalgia in Recent French Films on the '68 Years Julian Bourg
13. Rhetorics of Resistance: The Port Huron Project Mark Tribe
Contributors
Index
