Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism

Introduction; All Along the Watershed: Sixties Values as Defence of Community; May’s Tensions Today: France, Then and Now; The War against the War: Violence and Anticolonialism in the Final Years of the Estado Novo; From Sartre to Stevendores: The Connections between the Paris Barricades and the Re-Emergence of Black Trade Unions in South Africa; 1968 – Was It Really a Year of Social Change in Pakistan?; Nineteen Sixties Radicalism in the United States: Its Rise, Decline and Legacy; Students, Institutes and Artists: The Revolution Within; The Situationist Legacy: Revolution as Celebration; Habermas on Sixties Student Protests: Reflections on Collective Action and Communicative Potential; Sixties Movements, Educational Expansion and Cognitive Mobilisation: Postmaterialist Values and Unconventional Political Participation in Germany; Carrying the Flame Forward: Activist Legacies of 1968 in Life Story Reflections; When the Personal Became Political: A Reappraisal of the Women's Liberation Movement's Radical Idea; Conclusion

'A vivid and timely account of the most scene changing decade of the last century. This book is required reqding for anyone who wants to understand how we are today.' —Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology & Culture, Brunel University, UK