3. May 1968: The Triumph of Libidinal Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-108
Keyword(s):  
Ostrich ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-216
Author(s):  
W. R. Siegfried ◽  
Cecily Niven ◽  
J. M. Winterbottom ◽  
E. M. van Zinderen Bakker

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Charles Tilly
Keyword(s):  

Some bad ideas refuse to disappear. For an exceptional specimen, we can turn to the notion that rebellions occur mainly when a sudden downturn intercepts a curve of rising expectations. The gap between what people expect and what they receive, goes the argument, impels people to attack. At least since Tocqueville, the idea has come into play as explanation of revolutions, rebellions, and movements of protest. Luther Carpenter applies it to the student-worker movement—or, more exactly, the great workers’ strike of mid-May 1968.


Thesis Eleven ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Löwy

Author(s):  
W. J. H. Duckworth

The Inangahua earthquake of the 24th May 1968 disrupted rail communications over a wide area of the West Coast.


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