Uruguay, 1968 : student activism from global counterculture to Molotov cocktails / Vania Markarian ; translated by Laura Pérez Carrara ; foreword by Eric Zolov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markarian, Vania, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Pérez Carrara, Laura, translator.

Zolov, Eric, writer of foreword.

Series:

Violence in Latin American history ; 1.

Violence in Latin American history ; 1

Standardized Title:

68 uruguayo. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Student movements--Uruguay--History--20th century.

Student movements.

College students--Political activity--Uruguay--History--20th century.

College students.

Youth--Uruguay--History--20th century--Attitudes.

Youth.

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.

College students--Political activity.

Youth--Attitudes.

History.

Uruguay.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 230 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. Though some have argued that young-radical movements were inspired by the culture and politics of social movements burgeoning in Europe and the United States, youth activism developed its own distinct form in Latin America. In this book, Vania Markarian explores how the Uruguayan student movement of 1968 shaped the positions of leftist politics in the country for decades to come. She considers how students borrowed and invented their own new culture of radicalism to achieve revolutionary change in Uruguay and in Latin America as a whole. By exploring the intersection of activism, political violence, and youth culture, Uruguay, 1968 offers new insights on such subjects as the "New Left" and "revolutionary Left" that are central to our historical understanding of the 1960s across the globe"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Students take to the streets

Coordinates of a cycle of protest

On violence

The unions and the movement

The Lefts and the students

Paths and paradoxes of revolutionary action

Militant mystiques

Youth cultures

More nuances

Conclusion : 1968 and the emergence of a "New Left".

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

"Originally published as El 68 uruguayo: El movimiento estudiantil entre molotovs y música beat (Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2012). Copyright © Vania Markarian 2015."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Markarian, Vania, 1971- author. Uruguay, 1968

ISBN:

9780520290006

0520290003

9780520290013

0520290011

OCLC:

957554709