TY  - BOOK
ED  - Goltz, Anna von der
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011//
TI  - "Talkin' 'bout my generation": conflicts of generation building and Europe's "1968"
T3  - Göttinger Studien zur Generationsforschung 6
PB  - Wallstein-Verl.
CY  - Göttingen
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Europe
KW  - Intergenerational relations
KW  - Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D
KW  - Student
KW  - Politische Bewegung
KW  - Jugendprotest
KW  - Generationskonflikt
KW  - Protestbewegung
KW  - Geschichte, 1968
KW  - Generationengeschichte
KW  - Studentenbewegung
KW  - Außerparlamentarische Opposition
KW  - APO
KW  - Osteuropäische Opposition
KW  - Internationalismus
KW  - Jugendbewegung
KW  - BRD
KW  - Osteuropa
KW  - Westeuropa
KW  - Europa
KW  - Geschichte, 1960-1970
KW  - Lehrlingsbewegung
AB  - "The protests of '1968' have become a powerful symbol of generational belonging and central to the western world's collective memory. In many European countries, the '68ers' have been transformed into a mythical yardstick of what contitutes a generation. Yet few people thought of themselves in this way in the late 1960s: the idea of the '68er' only emerged from complex and often retrospective processes of generational building, both within countries and at an international level. Often labelled the first 'global generation', the term '68er' may have entered the vernacular across Europe, but what it entailed in different political and cultural contexts warrants examination. Were the '68ers' a pan-European phenomenon or did different generational entities emerge from national debates and discourses? The articles collected here examine the idea of a '68er' generation in West Germany, elsewhere in Western Europe, and in countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain. They address how activists - and those who observed them - made sense of those events at the time, how the idea of a generational experience was mobilized politically to powerful effect in the years that followed, and why the '68ers' have become the generation against which all others are measured in some countries, but not in others."--Publisher's description
SN  - 383530903X
LA  - English
N1  - ed. by Anna von der Goltz
ID  - 641377371
ER  -