Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism

Bryn Jones is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath.Mike O'Donnell is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Westminster.

• Introduction; All Along the Watershed: Sixties Values as Defence of Community; May’s Tensions Today: France, Then and Now; The War against the War: Violence and Anticolonialism in the Final Years of the Estado Novo; From Sartre to Stevendores: The Connections between the Paris Barricades and the Re-Emergence of Black Trade Unions in South Africa; 1968 – Was It Really a Year of Social Change in Pakistan?; Nineteen Sixties Radicalism in the United States: Its Rise, Decline and Legacy; Students, Institutes and Artists: The Revolution Within; The Situationist Legacy: Revolution as Celebration; Habermas on Sixties Student Protests: Reflections on Collective Action and Communicative Potential; Sixties Movements, Educational Expansion and Cognitive Mobilisation: Postmaterialist Values and Unconventional Political Participation in Germany; Carrying the Flame Forward: Activist Legacies of 1968 in Life Story Reflections; When the Personal Became Political: A Reappraisal of the Women's Liberation Movement's Radical Idea; Conclusion

‘Recommended.’ —R. C. Cottrell, California State University, Chico, in ‘Choice’