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The Politics of Protest [week 18] And Nobody Wants To Go To Jail: The Politics of Protest in Perspective
Title of topic - Blahdy-blah - Diddly-doo - Yadda yadda yadda - Professor Fancy-pants says... - Other interesting stuff - Don’t forget...
Wartime anti-fascist resistance - Memory and myth-making - Different stages of resistance - Historical signposts - ‘Scales’ of resistance and goals - Resistance and gender - Jane Slaughter and Paula Schwartz - Legacy of resistance
Vietnam and civil rights - The impact of one upon the other - Solidarity - The period of The ‘rupture’ in the civil rights movement - Consider the role of the state - Uniting people from all walks of life
The Left: Old, New and Far - Key events in 1956 (Hungary and Suez) - where did the ‘New Left’ come from? - the importance of Marxist ideology - C Wright Mills and Herbert Marcuse - emphasis on culture - impact of earlier protest movements
Terrorism and counter-terrorism - Reasons for the ‘escalation’ of protest to violent acts - The ‘escalation’ of left-wing terror - Questions over the legitimacy of protest - The response of the state - The role of the secret services
The anti-nuclear protests - Reasons for support for nuclear deterrent - Mid-1950s: influence of Bertrand Russell - Impact of CND and Aldermaston marches - International action - Anti-nuclear protests and the Cold War - The 1950s and the 1980s – all of it, basically
The Radical Right - A protest movement and a protest vote - The ‘disappearance’ of radical politics - The ‘Destiny’s Child’ factor – survival - Judging the ‘success’ of the movement - The economic downturn?
Protest and myth-making - Generational issues - Political and/or cultural transformation - The significance of this particular year - Collaboration between the student movement and the workers’ movement
Green parties - Origins of green parties as a protest movement - Transition from protest to electoral politics - Green parties as multi-issue organisations - Where protest ends and conventional politics begin?
Second-wave feminism - What first-wave feminism was - Why there was a ‘lull’ in the movement - the role of did this era enable or trigger second-wave feminism, or both? - the intersections of the feminist movements
Anti-globalisation movement - Where the expression comes from - Relationship with earlier protest movements - A protest against something which might in fact have aided the protest itself - Success? - Technology and communications
Don’t get fixated with time.
Take regular breaks.
Don’t be afraid to take time out. Oui.
Don’t be afraid to like take a kinda break from sort of student like stuff? Like kind of Facebook? Yeah,like no? I mean kinda like yeah?
I did not have sexual relations with that woman... Miss Lewinsky.