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The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of "the sixties" as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the socialist scramble for Africa, to the Naxalite movement in West Bengal, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, global media coverage of Israel, Cold War politics in Hong Kong cinema, sexual revolution in France, and cultural imperialism in Latin America. The Global 1960s explores the contest between convention and counter-culture that shaped this iconic decade, emphasizing that while the sixties are well-known for liberation, activism, and protest against the establishment, traditional hierarchies and social norms remained remarkably entrenched. Multi-faceted and transnational in approach, this book is valuable reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century global history.
The Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of "the sixties" as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the socialist scramble for Africa, to the Naxalite movement in West Bengal, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, global media coverage of Israel, Cold War politics in Hong Kong cinema, sexual revolution in France, and cultural imperialism in Latin America. The Global 1960s explores the contest between convention and counter-culture that shaped this iconic decade, emphasizing that while the sixties are well-known for liberation, activism, and protest against the establishment, traditional hierarchies and social norms remained remarkably entrenched. Multi-faceted and transnational in approach, this book is valuable reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century global history.
In 1951, the eight o'clock nightly news reported on Jean-Paul
Sartre for the first time. By the end of the twentieth century,
more than 3,500 programs dealing with philosophy and its
practitioners--including Bachelard, Badiou, Foucault, Lyotard, and
Levy--had aired on French television. According to Tamara Chaplin,
this enduring commitment to bringing the most abstract and least
visual of disciplines to the French public challenges our very
assumptions about the incompatibility of elite culture and mass
media. Indeed, it belies the conviction that television is
inevitably anti-intellectual and the quintessential archenemy of
the book.
In 1951, the eight o'clock nightly news reported on Jean-Paul
Sartre for the first time. By the end of the twentieth century,
more than 3,500 programs dealing with philosophy and its
practitioners--including Bachelard, Badiou, Foucault, Lyotard, and
Levy--had aired on French television. According to Tamara Chaplin,
this enduring commitment to bringing the most abstract and least
visual of disciplines to the French public challenges our very
assumptions about the incompatibility of elite culture and mass
media. Indeed, it belies the conviction that television is
inevitably anti-intellectual and the quintessential archenemy of
the book.
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