In the Spirit of '68

Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia

Joel Belliveau (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2019
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6252-3 (ISBN)

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The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets of Moncton, demanding further concessions.

What provoked these students to spark a cultural revolution on par with those overtaking English Canada and Quebec? Were they simply heirs to a long line of nationalists seeking more rights for francophones, as older histories suggest, or were they leftists whose demands echoed the ideas of student movements in Quebec, English Canada, the United States, and France?

Belliveau argues that the student movement emerged in the late 1950s as an expression of the province's changing youth culture but then evolved as students drew inspiration from the ideas of the New Left, shifting allegiance from liberalism to radical communitarianism and ultimately fuelling the fires of a new brand of Acadian nationalism in the 1970s.

Joel Belliveau is an associate professor of history at Laurentian University. The French-language version of this book, Le "moment 68" et la réinvention de l'Acadie, received the Canadian History of Education Association's Founders Prize and was shortlisted for the Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Käthe Roth has been a literary translator for more than thirty years.

Introduction: The Acadian Student Movements of the 1960s – A Leftist or Nationalist Force?

1 The Golden Age, or the Acadian National Project at the Crossroads

2 The Birth of an Autonomous Student Sphere in Moncton, 1957–66

3 The Early Liberal-Reformist Student Movement, 1964–67

4 The Birth of the Second Moncton Student Movement, 1968

5 Propagation of Neo-nationalist Ideas, 1968–74

Conclusion

Notes; Works Cited; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2019
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-6252-1 / 0774862521
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6252-3 / 9780774862523
Zustand	Neuware