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May '68
Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralyzing France?s economy and bringing the country to the verge of a leftist revolution. This book studies the life trajectories of many ordinary protestors during the period, using statistics and personal narratives to analyze how this activism arose, its impact on people?s personal and professional lives, and its transmission through familial generations.
Healing Fractures in Contemporary Theology
Since Vatican II, the key question that has developed in Catholic theology, often unstated or unrecognized, is, what is theology? The thesis presented here is that contemporary theologizing is “fractured” in many places and to varying degrees. These fractures can vary in seriousness between theologians, and a particular theologian may suffer from some fractures but not others. The fractures addressed here are between •theology and spirituality •theology and philosophy •theology and liturgy •the literal and spiritual senses of sacred scripture •theology, preaching, and apologetics •theology and ethics •theology and social theory •dogmatic and pastoral theology •theology and the “koinonial” Christian life •theologians and non-theologians • the generation gap between Gen X and Millennial/Post-Millennial Catholics, and •theology and the Magisterium. For each of these, an attempt is made to examine the symptoms, give a diagnosis, and write a prescription.
1968 - Culture and Counterculture
Sexual revolution, terrorism, student riots, civil rights, Stonewall Riots, feminism, and the publication of Humane vitae. The year 1968 is a milestone in twentieth-century history. The papers presented in this volume mark an interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach to a year, and indeed a decade, whose movements and events are still very much alive in contemporary society. The fruits of the conference are published in this volume to invite ongoing reflection and a critical discourse to a watershed moment in our history and culture.
Socialization
How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives in the classic work of key theorists and in contemporary research that has either developed or challenged these ideas. The book argues that, while socialization has sometimes been framed as an outdated, static approach, it in fact remains highly relevant and continues to provide valuable insight into how we come to act and think as we do. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical examples, the book offers a lively, accessibl...
Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers
This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on 90 interviews conducted with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the book demonstrates how their aspirations for leisure and consumption converged with family responsibilities and obligations. It shows how the baby boomers emerged from an authoritative upbringing to challenge some of the traditional assumptions of the family, such as marriage and cohabitation. The rise of feminism...
Activists Forever?
Using a global array of case studies, this collection explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life.
Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016
Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848–2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France. In addition to delineating the powerful contributions of black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating gender and race relations à la française. Drawing on research by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collection offers a fresh, multidimensional perspective on race, class, and gender relations in France and its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation from slavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Struggles for an Alternative Globalization
Through an anthropological study of a highly influential movement of French 'alterglobalization' activists, this book offers an ethnographic window onto the global movement against corporate capitalism and the neoliberal policies of the WTO. Based on extensive fieldwork on the Larzac plateau in rural southern France, it explores the politics of protest in which activists engage. It examines their resistance to various forms of power, their organization of struggle, their attempts to live out their ideals in daily life, and their challenges to conventional understandings of politics, democracy, economics, morality and globalization. By subjecting power and resistance to ethnographic study rather than adopting them as abstract categories of analysis, this volume makes an important contribution to theoretical debates on globalization, domination and resistance. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists and scholars of social movements, but also to sociologists and political scientists, as well as to activists themselves.
Le prophète rouge
C'est une histoire qui semble typique des milieux maoïstes dans la France de l'après-Mai 68, mais sur laquelle plane un fantôme. En 1971, six couples décident de faire ensemble table rase de leur vie passée au nom de leurs idéaux politiques. Leur chef est un ouvrier espagnol dénommé Fernando. Dans l'effervescence de l'époque, et suivant l'appel du président Mao, ils partent " enquêter " dans des foyers de travailleurs immigrés, s'établissent comme ouvriers en usine et emménagent collectivement dans un ancien couvent. Progressivement, au gré d'incessantes (auto)critiques, cette communauté bascule d'un engagement au service du peuple à une soumission totale à Fernando, devenu...
Mai 68, un pavé dans leur histoire
Qui sont celles et ceux qui ont fait Mai 68 ? Pourquoi et comment leurs trajectoires individuelles sontelles entrées dans lhistoire ? En portentils encore aujourdhui les marques ? Quel a été limpact de leur militantisme sur leurs enfants ? Pour répondre à ces questions, Julie Pagis, sappuyant sur une enquête dampleur consacrée aux parcours de « soixantehuitards ordinaires », combine analyses statistiques et récits de vie. Prenant ses distances avec le lieu commun dune « génération 68 » devenue opportuniste, occupant des postes de pouvoir dans les champs politiques, médiatiques ou littéraires et convertie au « libérallibertarisme », lauteure explore avec finesse la diversité des profils des femmes et des hommes qui ont participé à Mai 68, avant de montrer les effets multiples de cet engagement dans les sphères professionnelles, amoureuses, militantes ou familiales. Des racines de lengagement à la transmission familiale du militantisme en passant par les diverses reconversions postsoixante huitardes, louvrage vient réhabiliter une histoire plurielle de Mai 68, largement ensevelie au fil des célébrations décennales des événements.
