Date: 2013
Type: Book
Children of the dictatorship : student resistance, cultural politics and the 'long 1960s' in Greece
Oxford : Berghahn books, 2013
KORNETIS, Konstantinos, Children of the dictatorship : student resistance, cultural politics and the 'long 1960s' in Greece, Oxford : Berghahn books, 2013
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/56804
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the “Long 1960s,” this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these “children of the dictatorship” managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their “progressive” purposes and how their transnational exchange molded a particular local protest culture. It examines how the students’ social and political practices became a major source of pressure on the Colonels’ regime, finding its apogee in the three day Polytechnic uprising of November 1973 which laid the foundations for a total reshaping of Greek political culture in the following decades.
Table of Contents:
-- Chapter 1. A Changing Society -- Chapter 2. Phoenix with a Bayonet -- Chapter 3. A Mosquito on a Bull -- Chapter 4. Cultural Warfare -- Chapter 5. Ten Months that Shook Greece -- Epilogue --
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/56804
ISBN: 9781782380009; 9781782380016
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5862
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2006