Children of the Dictatorship Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the Long 1960s in Greece |
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Author:
| Kornetis, Kostis |
Series title: | Protest, Culture and Society Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-306-14239-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $144.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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 of November 1973 which laid the foundations for a total reshaping of Greek political culture in the following decades."