Around 1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories

Project start date: 2007-04 Project end date: 2011-10
This is a study of militants, the networks they constructed and the trajectories they followed in Europe between 1965-75. It is a collective project, undertaken by 14 historians, 7 based in the UK, 7 outside. It is based on archival work and the collection of oral testimony from a sample of networks and activists involved in them in each country. It explores in a comparative way issues of generational identity, political and lifestyle activism, and combines subjective understanding of militancy with the search for transnational links between militants through emigration and political exile, militant 'tourism' in the Third World, and international networks.
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Era(s): 
Methods usedCategory
Sound recordingData capture
soundContent types
textContent types
historyDiscipline
Funding sources: 
British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The Leverhulme Trust
Content types created: 
Dataset/structured data, Sound, Text
Source material used:  
Archival work and oral testimonials
Digital resource created:  
Database profiling acivists and activist networks, soundfiles and TEI transcriptions of interviews, English translations of a limited number of interviews
Access to digital resource:  
Open Access
Publications:  
forthcoming:
a special issue of six co-written articles entitled '1968: voices and vectors', in 'Social and Cultural History', due 2011
a volume entitled: 'Europe's 1968: voices and networks of revolt', to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012


Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:Professor Robert Gildea
Other staff:Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s)
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Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordRobert Gildea
TitleAround 1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories
Record created2008-08-20
Record updated2010-07-05 13:24
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2260
Citation of recordRobert Gildea: Around 1968: Activism, Networks, Trajectories.
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created: 2008-08-20, last updated 2010-07-05 13:24