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Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil
Victoria Langland
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Speaking of Flowers is an innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in response to the student protests of 1968. Looking into what made students engage in national political affairs as students, rather than through other means, Victoria Langland traces a gradual, uneven shift in how they constructed, defended, and redefined their right to political participation, from emphasizing class, race, and gender privileges to organizing around other institutional and symbolic forms of political authority.
Speaking of Flowers is an innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in response to the student protests of 1968. Looking into what made students engage in national political affairs as students, rather than through other means, Victoria Langland traces a gradual, uneven shift in how they constructed, defended, and redefined their right to political participation, from emphasizing class, race, and gender privileges to organizing around other institutional and symbolic forms of political authority.
Embodying Cold War political and gendered tensions, Brazil's increasingly violent military ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822353126
SKU
V9780822353126
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About Victoria Langland
Victoria Langland is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.
Reviews for Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil
“In this compelling book, Victoria Langland shows how Brazilian student activists of the 1960s generation rattled a military dictatorship and turned into powerful symbols – martyrs and militants whose memory drove the politics of repression, opposition, and democratization. The result is striking new insight on the practical and symbolic legacies of 1968 as a year of protest and repression, in ... Read more