Between Engagement and Enmity

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-74
Author(s):  
Anna von der Goltz
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Early Mobilization ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Protest Activity

This chapter charts the involvement of centre-right students in some of the key moments and debates around student activism from the mid-1960s until the climactic years of the protest movement in 1967/68. It traces their early mobilization in the middle of the decade, shows how they rallied increasingly from 1967 onward to formulate a response to the upsurge in left-wing protest activity, and examines their theoretical efforts and relationship with activists of the Left. The final section introduces a group of Christian Democratic ‘renegades’ whose close engagement with the Left made them rethink their politics in fundamental ways. Looking at some of the key themes and events of these years from the perspective of the centre-right, the chapter demonstrates that centre-right students were there throughout 1968, and not just as passive observers. They were an important part of this political moment and engaged with and participated in the student movement in manifold ways. Writing them back into the history of 1968 reveals that political activism in these years was a much broader, more versatile, and, ultimately, more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on left-wing radicals in much of the literature allows.

“We Shall Be Outspoken”: Student Political Activism in Post-Independence Ghana, c.1957–1966

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
University Student ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
The Government

This paper looks at student political activism in Ghana in the late 1950s and 1960s. Using Ghanaian and British archives, it examines how students of Ghana’s universities politically engaged with the government of Kwame Nkrumah and his ruling Convention People’s Party (CPP). Student activism manifested most in the conflict between the Nkrumah government, on one hand, and university authorities and students, on the other hand, over the purpose of higher education, university autonomy, and nationalism. The conflict coalesced around the idea of educated youth as model citizens. Contrary to the denial in existing literature, the paper argues that a nascent student movement and tradition of student political activism had emerged since the late 1950s. University student activism established itself as a fulcrum of the country’s evolving postcolonial political order and a bulwark against governmental authoritarianism. In the larger context of the global 1960s, Ghanaian student activism belonged to the wave of youth protests against governments that favored stability and opposed all dissent.

The Other '68ers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna von der Goltz
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Christian Democracy ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
History Of

This is the first book about West German centre-right students in 1968, a major moment of political and cultural contestation in the Federal Republic and indeed across much of the globe. Based on interviews with former activists and a wealth of new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of activists we do not normally associate with 1968. Writing them back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives, as this book does, reveals that the protest movement of these years was a broader, more politically versatile, and, ultimately, even more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on left-wing radicals allows. Many of the protagonists of this book would later play major roles in Christian Democratic politics, especially during the era of Helmut Kohl. By tracing their influence on German political culture, this study helps us to understand why the age of Christian Democracy was interrupted but never really ended in the Federal Republic—at least until now.

The Values of Australian Student Activists

1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Ellerman ◽  
N. T. Feather
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Australian Student ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Different Populations

Relevant literature on student activism was reviewed so as to discover leads for predictions about differences between activists and non-activists in the way they might be expected to rank the terminal and instrumental values from Rokeach's Value Survey. A study was reported in which Form E of the Value Survey was completed by 92 left-wing student activists from three different populations and by 119 non-activists enrolled at Flinders University in 1970. Results showed that the activists ranked the following values higher in relative importance than the non-activists: a world at peace, a world of beauty, equality, freedom, courageous, helpful, imaginative, and loving. They ranked the following values lower in relative importance than the non-activists: a comfortable life, family security, happiness, national security, salvation, ambitious, capable, cheerful, clean, obedient, polite, and responsible. Results were discussed in terms of Rokeach's law of political activism and Merton's theory of anomie and opportunity structures.

scholarly journals Mas allá del 16 de mayo de 1984. Protesta estudiantil en Colombia, 1975-1984

2011 ◽  
pp. 272-303
Author(s):  
Jorge A. Cote R.
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Strong State ◽  
National University ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
History Of

El texto realiza la historia del movimiento estudiantil colombiano entre los años de 1975 y 1984, periodo cuando ocurrieron los hechos de mayo de 1984 en la Universidad Nacional, sede Bogotá. Sin embargo, el artículo no se centra exclusivamente en este acontecimiento. Al contrario, a partir del análisis de las protestas estudiantiles nacionales ocurridas en esos años y la descripción de las transformaciones que hubo en el sistema de educación superior este texto comprobara que 1984 fue le culminación de una etapa del movimiento estudiantil iniciada hace 1975-1976, que se caracterizó por un profundo debilitamiento de sus organizaciones, la disminución de sus protestas, el predominio de las organizaciones de izquierda y la fuerte represión estatal: Beyond May 16, 1984. Student Protest in Colombia, 1975-1984 The article covers the history of the Colombian student movement between 1975 and 1984, a period when happened the events of May 1984 at the National University in Bogotá. However, the article does not focus exclusively on this event. On the contrary, form the analysis of national student protests occurred in those years, and the description of the transformations of the higher education system, this paper will prove that 1984 was the culmination of a student movement’s stage that began around 1975-1976, which was characterized by a profound weakening of student organizations, decline of their protests, predominance of left-wing organizations, and strong state repression. Keywords: Student Movement, Welfare, Higher Education, 1984

Same Address, Different Doors: Post-Heritage Deconstruction of the Heritage Household in Upstairs Downstairs in the 1970s and 2010s

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Abbiss
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
Critical History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fourth Series ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Episodes

This article offers a ‘post-heritage’ reading of both iterations of Upstairs Downstairs: the LondonWeekend Television (LWT) series (1971–5) and its shortlived BBC revival (2010–12). Identifying elements of subversion and subjectivity allows scholarship on the LWT series to be reassessed, recognising occasions where it challenges rather than supports the social structures of the depicted Edwardian past. The BBC series also incorporates the post-heritage element of self-consciousness, acknowledging the parallel between its narrative and the production’s attempts to recreate the success of its 1970s predecessor. The article’s first section assesses the critical history of the LWT series, identifying areas that are open to further study or revised readings. The second section analyses the serialised war narrative of the fourth series of LWT’s Upstairs, Downstairs (1974), revealing its exploration of female identity across multiple episodes and challenging the notion that the series became more male and upstairs dominated as it progressed. The third section considers the BBC series’ revised concept, identifying the shifts in its main characters’ positions in society that allow the series’ narrative to question the past it evokes. This will be briefly contrasted with the heritage stability of Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010–15). The final section considers the household of 165 Eaton Place’s function as a studio space, which the BBC series self-consciously adopts in order to evoke the aesthetics of prior period dramas. The article concludes by suggesting that the barriers to recreating the past established in the BBC series’ narrative also contributed to its failure to match the success of its earlier iteration.

Same Address, Different Doors: Post-Heritage Deconstruction of the Heritage Household in Upstairs Downstairs in the 1970s and 2010s

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Abbiss
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
Critical History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fourth Series ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Episodes

This article offers a ‘post-heritage’ reading of both iterations of Upstairs Downstairs: the LondonWeekend Television (LWT) series (1971–5) and its shortlived BBC revival (2010–12). Identifying elements of subversion and subjectivity allows scholarship on the LWT series to be reassessed, recognising occasions where it challenges rather than supports the social structures of the depicted Edwardian past. The BBC series also incorporates the post-heritage element of self-consciousness, acknowledging the parallel between its narrative and the production’s attempts to recreate the success of its 1970s predecessor. The article’s first section assesses the critical history of the LWT series, identifying areas that are open to further study or revised readings. The second section analyses the serialised war narrative of the fourth series of LWT’s Upstairs, Downstairs (1974), revealing its exploration of female identity across multiple episodes and challenging the notion that the series became more male and upstairs dominated as it progressed. The third section considers the BBC series’ revised concept, identifying the shifts in its main characters’ positions in society that allow the series’ narrative to question the past it evokes. This will be briefly contrasted with the heritage stability of Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010–15). The final section considers the household of 165 Eaton Place’s function as a studio space, which the BBC series self-consciously adopts in order to evoke the aesthetics of prior period dramas. The article concludes by suggesting that the barriers to recreating the past established in the BBC series’ narrative also contributed to its failure to match the success of its earlier iteration.

Subaltern Migrations and the State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Zehmisch
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Subaltern Agency ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Reports

This chapter considers the history of Andaman migration from the institutionalization of a penal colony in 1858 to the present. It unpicks the dynamic relationship between the state and the population by investigating genealogies of power and knowledge. Apart from elaborating on subaltern domination, the chapter also reconstructs subaltern agency in historical processes by re-reading scholarly literature, administrative publications, and media reports as well as by interpreting fieldwork data and oral history accounts. The first part of the chapter defines migration and shows how it applies to the Andamans. The second part concentrates on colonial policies of subaltern population transfer to the islands and on the effects of social engineering processes. The third part analyses the institutionalization of the postcolonial regime in the islands and elaborates on the various types of migration since Indian Independence. The final section considers contemporary political negotiations of migration in the islands.

Socialism and Socialist Intellectuals in French History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Wright
Keyword(s):  
French History ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter sets out the specific historiographical basis for a new study of the French socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that one particular framework—that of the reluctant relationship of socialism with power in the capitalist state—has dominated our approaches to writing the history of French socialism, and suggests that a new focus on temporalities, particularly exploring the clash between revolutionary, future-focused socialism, and present-minded socialism, opens up a new range of cultural, intellectual, and biographical sources for understanding the French socialist movement. It provides the specific intellectual context for understanding how historians in France today are seeking to rethink their intellectual inheritance from left-wing writers of earlier generations.

scholarly journals Industrial Dust Explosions. A Brief Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf K. Eckhoff ◽  
Gang Li
Keyword(s):  
Case History ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Dust Explosion ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Industrial Dust ◽  
Dust Clouds ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dust Explosions ◽  
Hybrid Mixtures

This paper first addresses the question: what is a dust explosion? Afterwards, some specific issues are briefly reviewed: materials that can give dust explosions, factors influencing ignitability and explosibility of dust clouds, the combustion of dust clouds in air, ignition sources that can initiate dust explosions, primary and secondary dust explosions, dust flash fires, explosions of “hybrid mixtures”, and detonation of dust clouds. Subsequently, measures for dust explosion prevention and mitigation are reviewed. The next section presents the case history of an industrial dust explosion catastrophe in China in 2014. In the final section, a brief review is given of some current research issues that are related to the prevention and mitigation of dust explosions. There is a constant need for further research and development in all the areas elucidated in the paper.

scholarly journals China and the global search for health security: history, vaccines, and governance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daojiong Zha
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Global Search ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
History Of

AbstractChina is a key player, not just an actor, in the global search for health security. Reiteration of this point is useful for International Relations studies, which often portray China as a factor to contend with, especially given the background of the country as the first to report the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper adopts an analytical framework developed through a summary of routines in Chinese engagement in global health from a practitioner’s perspective: aid, interdependence, governance and knowledge. These are the core elements in a country’s pursuit of engagement with the rest of the world. After the introduction, the second section of the paper reviews contributions from China in the history of global plague control over the past century. The third section discusses structural issues affecting access to vaccines, which are essential for bringing COVID-19 under effective control. The fourth section identifies a number of challenges China is facing in global health governance. The final section offers a few concluding thoughts, reiterating the nature of interdependence in the global search for enhancement of health security.

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