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Kostis Kornetis - Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ´Long 1960s´ in Greece - 9781782380009 - V9781782380009
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Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ´Long 1960s´ in Greece

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Description for Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ´Long 1960s´ in Greece Hardback. 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). Series: Protest, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, 33 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 646.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Protest, Culture and Society
Condition
New
Weight
648g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782380009
SKU
V9781782380009
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Ref
99-15

About Kostis Kornetis
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, ... Read more

Reviews for Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ´Long 1960s´ in Greece
“This long-anticipated… publication signals the beginning of a potentially fruitful and certainly long overdue examination of the 1960s and 1970s in Greece. After so many years of discussions and debates on the Greek Civil War, the time for a careful consideration of the junta and its afterlife seems to have finally come. Kornetis offers an enormously productive entry point by ... Read more

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