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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"New Left"”.
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Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain
… is to explore the relationship between the New Left and modernisation, and to suggest that modernisation provides a powerful means of understanding the underlying dynamics of Britain's history in the 1960s. This relationship is understood in terms of a politics of space. The New Left is …
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The Making of the First New Left in Britain
… created what would come to be known as the New Left. The New Left in Britain took the form of a loose affiliation of scholars and intellectuals whose goal it was to create a space for socialist change within and between the existing structures in the British labor movement. These …
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Intellectual origins of the French New Left: Sartre, Lefebvre, Castoriadis
… appraisal of the intellectual origins of French New Left social theory, as it emerged from the leftist critiques of traditional Marxism carried out by such thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Lefebvre, and Cornelius Castoriadis in the period 1945 to 1968. Sartre’s existentialist critique revolved …
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FBI Investigations into the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
<p>This paper examines how the FBI investigated civil rights organizations and social movements from the 1950s through the 1970s. It compares the reasons for the investigations, the investigative methods, and the extent of the investigations. The paper uses FBI files as the basis for the …
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The meanings and possibilities of sustainability for new left social movement organising in Ireland
… levels for a small milieu of activists on the new left in Ireland and the UK. I gather personal experiences of burn-out, care (collective-care and self-care), support structures and identity in social movements, to try and figure out what people have learned about sustainability through their …
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"Shut It Down, Open It Up": A History of the New Left at the University Of Virginia, Charlottesville
… in Charlottesville during the 1960s focusing on new left student organizing at the University of Virginia. It is a work of social history that establishes a community that has been generally ignored in traditional histories of the new left as one of the most influential centers of new left …
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The Building of a New Left Conglomerate in the City of Ann Arbor: VOICE, the Black Action Movement, and the Human Rights Party (1965-1975)
New Left radicalism played a vital role within both the city of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan throughout much of the 1960s and early 1970s. Three organizations, VOICE, the Black Action Movement (BAM), and the Human Rights Party (HRP), particularly allowed for student activism to become …
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Post-War African Studies, Underdevelopment, and the French and British New Lefts, 1953-1993
… thinkers associated with the French and British New Lefts were solely concerned with elaborating a “Western Marxism”. It does so by reconstructing the important role sociological and economic analyses of sub-Saharan Africa played in shaping the sociological and conceptual imagination of the …
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Anarchist Strategy and Visual Rhetoric in Brazil, 1970: The Living Theatre as “The People in the Street”
… company within a historical framework of the "New Left". Implications of this strategy are identified and critiqued. Both due to the simplification of historical time periods between the fields of theatre and politics, or "periodization" (Postlewait), and because of the ways in which the "New …
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Student Radicalism in Tennessee, 1954-1970
… activism, it broadens the understanding of New Left student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and the West Coast. It also argues for a consideration of student radicalism that incorporates white and black accounts, assessing issues surrounding civil rights, …
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Peru, 1962-1966
… of South America. As a result, members of the New Left in Peru began an insurgency in 1962. By 1966, the Peruvian security forces had quickly and efficiently eliminated the insurgent threat. Most literature on the Peruvian Cold War experience of the mid-1960s argues the New Left failed due to …
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The Free University of New York: The New Left's Self-Education and Transborder Activism
… history of the Free University (School) of New York (FUNY), 1965-1968, in the context of the American radical movement that occurred amidst the international upheaval of national liberations. The Free University of New York was founded by young radical intellectuals who were inspired by the …
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Fractured Front: Gender, Authenticity, and the Remaking of the American Left after World War Two
… continued to be important to the white, left&ndashleaning social movements of the 1960s. Through them, it fed into the identity politics of the 1970s and 1980s. I thus draw a straight line between Cold War anti&ndashtotalitarianism and identity politics. I explore this phenomenon in a …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… revolutionary and political theorist born in New York City in 1921. His career as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… revolutionary and political theorist born in New York City in 1921. His career as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary …
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Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution
… 1950s and 1960s, encouraged the emergence of a new kind of man, only for this type, too, to be contested in turn in the wake of the New Left rebellions of 1968 and through the tumultuous 1970s. In all these years, at both conscious and unconscious levels, Italian men always tried to understand …
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Pataxó Hãhãhãe: Race, Indigeneity and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Northeast
… Brazil’s re-democratization and the rise of the New Left, communities have mobilized not only as landless (see Welch 2009) but also as indigenous and Afro-descendant (see Warren 2001, French 2009). Still, ideas about racial harmony in Brazil have remained much the same. Brazil’s self-concept as a …
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Interest Groups and Exchange Rate Policy Choice in Brazil and Venezuela: Incorporating the Workers
… to the most recent era of the rise of the New Left in Latin America, need more revision and clarification.</p>
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"The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts
… provide general histories of the American New Left of the 1960s and 1970s and the American counterculture of the same period. Here, I focus on how these movements interacted and how they were responding to similar experiences of alienation. Then I examine the primary material basis for both …
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Militant Feminism and the Women of the Weather Underground Organization
… is a surge of militant feminists among radical leftist organizations, such as the Weather Underground Organization. Second-wave feminists articulated a view of womanhood that was not confined to the home; militant feminists, such as those of the Weather Underground Organization, supplemented …
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