Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism

Download or read book Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism written by Bryn Jones and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book’s four main aims are to examine: firstly, why movements happened in the socio-historical context of sixties’ radicalism; secondly, its distinctive legacy of crucial, cultural, societal and political interconnections; thirdly, continuing links between seminal ideas and movements and socio-political activism today; fourthly little-discussed national instances and divergent impacts of sixties radicalism, in relation to contemporary 'global' social movements. A conclusion traces all these dimensions from current social movements back to sixties radicalism’s pioneering upheavals.