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The Quebec spring, a new May 68?
Obergöker, Timo
Obergöker, Timo
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2021-02
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May 68 seems to have become the global matrix for youth protest and indeed one of the first globalised rebellions. Powerful images of young people challenging the establishment circulated quickly around the globe , thus creating a language of dissent encapsulated in slogans, posters, music, happenings. In 2012, when students in the province of Quebec protested massively against an increase of their tuition fees, many commentators in the media compared this event to “May 68”. Indeed, we find striking similarities between Paris 1968 and Montreal 2012. But are things really that easy? We will explore in how far a common set of signs and symbols might, potentially, hide deep structural differences..
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Obergöker, T. (2021). The Quebec Spring, a new May 68? In M. Munro, W. J. Cloonan, B. J. Faulk, & C. P. Weber (Eds.) Global revolutionary aesthetics and politics after Paris ‘68. Lexington Books.
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9781793625731