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Children of the Dictatorship
Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece
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Artikel-Nr:
9781785330339
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2015
Seiten:
392
Autor:
Kostis Kornetis
Gewicht:
566 g
Format:
229x152x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Kostis Kornetis is Assistant Professor at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He received his PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, Florence. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the History Department at Brown University. His research focuses on the history and memory of the 1960s, the methodology of oral history, and the use of film as a source for social and cultural history.
Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these "children of the dictatorship" managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their "progressive" purposes and how their transnational exchange molded a particular local protest culture. It examines how the students' social and political practices became a major source of pressure on the Colonels' regime, finding its apogee in the three day Polytechnic uprising of November 1973 which laid the foundations for a total reshaping of Greek political culture in the following decades.
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