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Protest in the Vietnam War Era

Author: Alexander Sedlmaier

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-15

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 303081050X

This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between protest focused on the war and other emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing scholarship to examine the myriad interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe during the Indochina Wars. Bringing together scholars working from a range of geographical, historiographical and methodological perspectives, the volume offers a new framework for understanding the history of wartime protest. The chapters are organised around the social movements from the three main geopolitical regions of the world during the 1960s and early 1970s: the core capitalist countries of the so-called first world, the socialist bloc and the Global South. The final section of the book then focuses on international organisations that explicitly sought to bridge and unite solidarity and protest around the world. In an era of persistent military conflict, the book provides timely contributions to the question of what war does to protest movements and what protest movements do to war.

Praxis, Student Protest, and Purposive Social Action

Author: Sarah D. Zabic

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the dynamics of the intellectual debate among Yugoslav communists over the ideology of Marxism during the decade 1965-75. This thesis argues that the Praxis School, a group of dissident, communist intellectuals that founded the journal Praxis in 1964, and the week-long student protest in the capital Belgrade (June 1968) are significant in twentieth-century Yugoslav history because both movements ascribed to humanist Marxism, which posed the first concerted, continuous ideological challenge to Tito's postwar socialist vision. Resting at the crossroads of intellectual, cultural, and political history, this thesis presents three synchronous perspectives of the sociopolitical discourse surrounding the debate over Marxist ideology in Yugoslavia, 1964-1975. This study examines articles from Praxis, published and oral interviews with Praxis authors, the speeches of President Josip Broz Tito and the Party ideologue, Edvard Kardelj, and memoirs, songs, chants, and communiqués from the student protest to trace the ideological exchange during the decade 1964-75 among the Praxis School, the student protesters in Belgrade, and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. The Praxis School's humanist Marxist critique and the student protests in 1968 during this decade were evidence of a growing reflexive discourse in the civil sphere over the trajectory of socialism in Yugoslavia. This thesis posits that after the student protests in June 1968 the League of Communists of Yugoslavia made a concerted effort to exclude humanist Marxist discourse to reestablish its hegemonic control over communist ideology and the political trajectory of the state.

A Slow Burning Fire

Author: Marko Ilic

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0262361418

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Yugoslavia's diverse and interconnected art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s, linked to the country's experience with socialist self-management. In Yugoslavia from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, state-supported Student Cultural Centers became incubators for new art. This era's conceptual and performance art--known as Yugoslavia's New Art Practice--emerged from a network of diverse and densely interconnected art scenes that nurtured the early work of Marina Abramovi&ć, Sanja Ivekovi&ć, Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), and others. In this book, Marko Ili&ć offers the first comprehensive examination of the New Art Practice, linking it to Yugoslavia's experience with socialist self-management and the political upheavals of the 1980s.

The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences

Author: Simon Susen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-23

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1137318236

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Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a systematic, comprehensive, and critical account of the legacy of the 'postmodern turn', notably in terms of its continuing relevance in the twenty-first century.

Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism

Author: Bryn Jones

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2012-10-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9780857282286

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This book’s four main aims are to examine: firstly, why movements happened in the socio-historical context of sixties’ radicalism; secondly, its distinctive legacy of crucial, cultural, societal and political interconnections; thirdly, continuing links between seminal ideas and movements and socio-political activism today; fourthly little-discussed national instances and divergent impacts of sixties radicalism, in relation to contemporary 'global' social movements. A conclusion traces all these dimensions from current social movements back to sixties radicalism’s pioneering upheavals.

Communication and Capitalism

Author: Christian Fuchs

Publisher: University of Westminster Press

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1912656728

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‘An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today’s capitalist society.’ — Professor Michael Hardt, Duke University, co-author of the tetralogy Empire, Commonwealth, Multitude, and Assembly ‘A comprehensive approach to understanding and transcending the deepening crisis of communicative capitalism. It is a major work of synthesis and essential reading for anyone wanting to know what critical analysis is and why we need it now more than ever.’ — Professor Graham Murdock, Emeritus Professor, University of Loughborough and co-editor of The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications Communication and Capitalism outlines foundations of a critical theory of communication. Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines a communicative materialism that is a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorising communication in society and in capitalism. The book renews Marxist Humanism as a critical theory perspective on communication and society. The author theorises communication and society by engaging with the dialectic, materialism, society, work, labour, technology, the means of communication as means of production, capitalism, class, the public sphere, alienation, ideology, nationalism, racism, authoritarianism, fascism, patriarchy, globalisation, the new imperialism, the commons, love, death, metaphysics, religion, critique, social and class struggles, praxis, and socialism. Fuchs renews the engagement with the questions of what it means to be a human and a humanist today and what dangers humanity faces today.

Social Theory

Author: Hans Joas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-07-09

Total Pages: 1088

ISBN-13: 1316102084

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Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and theories in contemporary sociological thought, with crisp summaries of the main books, arguments and controversies. It also deals with newly emerging schools from rational choice to symbolic interactionism, with new ambitious approaches (Habermas, Luhmann, Giddens, Bourdieu), structuralism and antistructuralism, critical revisions of modernization theory, feminism and neopragmatism. Written by two of the world's leading sociologists and based on their extensive academic teaching, this unrivalled work is ideal both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for anyone interested in contemporary theoretical debates.

Chicana Feminisms

Author: Gabriela F. Arredondo

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-07-09

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780822331414

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DIVAn anthology of original essays from Chicana feminists which explores the complexities of life experiences of the Chicanas, such as class, generation, sexual orientation, age, language use, etc./div