Consequences and Echoes of 1968
Edited by Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
Berghahn Books
2014
Présentation de l'éditeur
The year “1968” marked the climax of protests that simultaneously
captured most industrialized Western countries. The protesters
challenged the institutions of Western democracies, confronting
powerful, established parties and groups with an opposing force and
public presence that negated traditional structures of institutional
authority and criticized the basic assumptions of the post-war order.
Exploring the effects the protest movement of 1968 had on the political,
social, and symbolic order of the societies they called into question,
this volume focuses on the consequences and echoes of 1968 from
different perspectives, including history, sociology, and linguistics.
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Professor of Contemporary
History at Bielefeld University, is an associated member of the Centre
de Sociologie Européenne (CSE/EHESS-Paris). She was visiting professor
at Sciences Po, Paris, 1999-2000 as well at St Antony’s College, Oxford,
2008-2009. Her main publications include 1968. Eine Zeitreise (Suhrkamp 2008).
