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Uruguay, 1968: Student Activism from Global Counterculture to Molotov Cocktails
Vania Markarian
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Paperback. The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. In this book, the author explores how the Uruguayan student movement of 1968 shaped leftist politics in the country for decades to come. Translator(s): Perez Carrara, Laura. Series: Violence in Latin American History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KLSU; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPWF; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. Though some have argued that these 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 leftist politics in the country for decades to come. She considers how students invented their own new culture of radicalism to achieve revolutionary change in Uruguay and in Latin America as a whole. By ... Read more
The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. Though some have argued that these 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 leftist politics in the country for decades to come. She considers how students invented their own new culture of radicalism to achieve revolutionary change in Uruguay and in Latin America as a whole. By ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Violence in Latin American History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520290013
SKU
V9780520290013
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About Vania Markarian
Vania Markarian is Associate Professor at Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is the author of Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967-1984.
Reviews for Uruguay, 1968: Student Activism from Global Counterculture to Molotov Cocktails
Markarian makes sense of the complex and often conflicted interaction of three phenomena: the youth's rapid conversion to violent repertoires of political contention, their massive incorporation into leftist organizations, and their appropriation of cultural ideas and practices emanating from their contemporaries in Europe and the United States... a significant contribution.
International Sociology Significant... [the book] influences historians' understanding of ... Read more
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