Book description
During May 1968, students and workers in France united in the biggest strike and the largest mass movement in French history. Protesting capitalism, American imperialism, and Gaullism, 9 million people from all walks of life, from shipbuilders to department store clerks, stopped working. The nation was paralyzed-no sector of theâŠ
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A lot has been written about the famous May â68 in France, but to me, Kristin Rossâs book stands out because of what she argues was at the heart of the protests: they were an experiment âin declassification, in disrupting the natural âgivenness of places,ââ an attempt to question the very order of society.
Students left their spaces of study to engage with workers; workersâor at least some of themârefused to return to the hell their workplace was: they didnât want to function as students or workers anymore. This vision of transgressing social or spatial boundaries, I believe, still speaksâŠ
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