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Chapter 7 - ‘We Began to Talk’

The Seizure of Speech

from Part II - The Politics of Revolt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2019

Ben Mercer
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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Chapter 7 examines the prominence of speech in the student revolts of the 1960s. The experience of speaking was extremely important to the students, a marker of a subjective transformation. However, speech was not always emancipatory. Practices of speech followed three modes: desacralisation, the demand for debate and provocation. Protest speech was characterised by vulgarity, jargon, informalisation and opacity. The deployment of speech occurred in unequal and gendered forms. Student assemblies were simultaneously democratic forums and arenas of intimidation and exclusion. The model of rational public debate with which the student movements often began failed and gave way to a model of provocation.

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Student Revolt in 1968
France, Italy and West Germany
, pp. 155 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • ‘We Began to Talk’
  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Student Revolt in 1968
  • Online publication: 18 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696111.008
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  • ‘We Began to Talk’
  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Student Revolt in 1968
  • Online publication: 18 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696111.008
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  • ‘We Began to Talk’
  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Student Revolt in 1968
  • Online publication: 18 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696111.008
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