When students protest : universities in the global North / edited by Judith Bessant, Analicia Mejia Mesinas, Sarah Pickard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bessant, Judith, editor.

Mejia Mesinas, Analicia, 1988- editor.

Pickard, Sarah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student movements.

Protest movements.

High school students--Political activity.

High school students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

Summary:

This book demonstrates that student movements have always been part of the political landscape and remain a significant and potent source of political change and renewal.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Politics, Participation, and University Students' Action: Introductory Essay

The Politics of Politics and Language

Note

References

Chapter 2: Activation of Student Protest: Reaction, Repression, and Memory at Nanterre University, Paris 1968-2018

Introduction

An Insider Perspective

In Search of Identity at Nanterre University

Calling on the "Spirit of 68": Neoliberal Performance and Student Myth

Student Protest and Live Activation of Memories: "Ils commémorent, on continue" (They Commemorate, We Continue)

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 3: "Different Struggles, the Same Fight"?: A Comparative Analysis of Student Movements in Chile (2011), Quebec (2012), and Hong Kong (2014)

Student Protests: The Comparative Challenge

Three Contrasting Movements

Three student movements (2011-2014)

The "Words of Anger": An Approach by Slogans

Word Clouds: A Comparison of the Three Student Movements

Two "Worlds" of Student Anger?

Education, Intergenerational Justice, Democracy: A Common Thread

Chapter 4: "We Are the University!" Campus Protest in the Context of Counter-Globalization Critique: The Amsterdam University Protests, 2015-2016

University Protests in the European Context

The Raison d'être of the Amsterdam University Protests

The Unfolding of the Amsterdam University Protests

Outcomes of the Amsterdam University Protests

Conclusion: The University as a Microcosm and an Incubator of Counter-Globalization Critique

Chapter 5: Fault Lines and Heterogeneity: Quebec's Student Movement during the Maple Spring of 2012

Context

Methodology

Dynamics of the Conflict.

Inside the Quebec Student Movement: Structured Yet Heterogeneous

Negotiating with the Government

Media Coverage of Student Protests

Use of Social Media by Students

Conclusion: The Relational Dynamics of Silencing "Silly" Student Voices

Chapter 6: Organizing Campus Alliances to Resist a Neoliberal Attack on Workers Conditions in Toronto, Canada

Impact of Corporatization on Students and Faculty

Building Solidarity for Campus Food Service Workers

The Path to Winning the Strike

Strategic Organizing by the Cross-Campus Alliance

Conclusion: Campus Coalition-Building Matters

Chapter 7: Student Protests against Neoliberal Education Policies in Italy: Three Student Organizations

Neoliberal Education Policies and Workfare: What to Protest Against?

Students Contesting Neoliberalism: From the Anomalous Wave to the Network

Education Matters. How to Combine Adaptive Claims and General Protests?

Knowledge, Subjects, Territories: A Complex Identity

Student Citizenship and Student Welfare: Insurgent Subjects against Neoliberal Policies

Chapter 8: The Russian Student Protests of March 2017: Harsh Responses of the University Officials and the Authorities on the Demands for Social Change

Literature Review

Data and Methodology

Analysis: Exploration of the Students' Potential to Induce the Social Change

Discussion and Conclusion

Chapter 9: "Demanding What is Not Theirs to Demand": Rebellious Students in Post-Socialist Montenegro

Rediscovering the Forgotten Student Rebellions

Case Study 1: Students against Ethnonationalism

Case Study 2: Students against Neoliberalism

References.

Chapter 10: When Students Protest and When They Don't: Challenging the Apathy Narrative in Australia

Background and Context: Student Life and Subdued Protest in North Queensland

Securitization and Student Protest in a Post-9/11 World

Neoliberalism and the Australian Higher-Education Sector

When Students Do Protest Case Study: Students against Staff Cuts

Discussion and Conclusions

Chapter 11: Student Mobilizations and Local Public Action: A French Case Study

Students in the Framing of the Local Context

Student Strategy Initiatives

DIDA: A Noncritical Answer to Local Public Nondecision

The LAP: A Strong Critic of Neoliberalism and Local Public Action

The Influences of Students' Initiatives on Local Political Processes

Chapter 12: From Squatting to Antimilitarism in Sardinia: A Student's Relational Agency Case-Study

Sardinia's Militarization and Mobilization against Land Occupation

The Rise of Collettivo Studentesco: From Squats to Antimilitary Politics

A Foras Movement Organization: The Meeting Arena

Discussion

Chapter 13: Protest Practices: A Case Study of Students' Collective Action in Italy

Student Protest between Agency and Resistance

On Method: Campus-Based Research Design

How University Students Become Political Activists

The Social Organization of Protest Practices

Chapter 14: Student Activism in Bologna: Old Fractures, Emerging Alliances, and the Use of Depoliticization as a Repressive Strategy

Bologna and the Students: Unfolding a Complex Relationship

Emerging Alliances during the 2008 Economic Crisis

The Politics of Depoliticization and Repression

Conclusions

Notes.

References

Chapter 15: Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester

The Political Context and the Two Climate Strike Demonstrations

The Representation of the Protests in Local Newspapers

Survey Methodology

Why Did Participants Engage in the Global Climate Strike?

Chapter 16: A Social Imaginary for Collective Becoming: Occupy and the Nature of "Real Participation"

Cultures of Democracy and the Art(s) of Dispossession

Shared Stories of Protest

Conclusion: "It has to Start Today"

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78661-181-3

OCLC:

1260343703