The French May

Actors and Dynamics of a Global Crisis
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74825-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Youth in a Globalizing World

It is now time to stop revering May 68 as a political myth, but to consider it as it was, meaning as a social movement that unexpectedly turned into a tremendous political crisis, bringing French institutions near to collapse. Relying on original data, such as unprecedented archives and personal interviews with former sixty-eighters, the book brings new light on how the revolt was unleashed not only among Paris students but the whole French population, challenged all established hierarchies, shook culture and mores, deeply affected its participants’ life course, and contributed to a worldwide context of protest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mathieu, Lilian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Lilian Mathieu is Senior Researcher in sociology at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre Max Weber-Ecole normale supérieure in Lyon). He is a specialist in the study of past and contemporary social movements and of contentious politics.