Book contents
- Student Revolt in 1968
- New Studies in European History
- Student Revolt in 1968
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: History, Myth and Memory of 1968
- Part I Education and Culture
- Part II The Politics of Revolt
- Part III Crisis of the University
- Chapter 8 ‘Question, Doubt and Criticise’
- Chapter 9 ‘Student Power’
- Chapter 10 ‘An Asylum for Delinquents’
- Chapter 11 ‘A Golden Ghetto’
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - ‘Student Power’
Vietnam at Trento
from Part III - Crisis of the University
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
- Student Revolt in 1968
- New Studies in European History
- Student Revolt in 1968
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: History, Myth and Memory of 1968
- Part I Education and Culture
- Part II The Politics of Revolt
- Part III Crisis of the University
- Chapter 8 ‘Question, Doubt and Criticise’
- Chapter 9 ‘Student Power’
- Chapter 10 ‘An Asylum for Delinquents’
- Chapter 11 ‘A Golden Ghetto’
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 9 describes the revolt at the University Institute of Social Sciences at Trento. It demonstrates the importance of protest about Vietnam in the first closure of the Institute. I argue that in the course of the revolt, the students discovered themselves as passive subjects of the university system and sought to reinvent themselves as active subjects via protest. In the third occupation at the Faculty of Sociology at Trento, they developed a charter of demands that sought to create structural spaces within the university and perpetuate the student movement without integrating it within the university. The protest movement successfully paralysed the Institute of Sociology without managing to impose itself, until the contestation spread to the Catholic Church in the Anti-Lent of 1968 which, although it culminated in the successful transformation of the institute, nonetheless left the protest movement with a question of what direction it should take.
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- Student Revolt in 1968France, Italy and West Germany, pp. 206 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019