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Canadian countercultures and the environment
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ISBN: 1552388166 9781552388167 9781552388174 1552388174 9781552388150 9781552388181 155238814X Year: 2016 Publisher: Calgary University of Calgary Press

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In Canadian historiography, there has been an increasing attention on the 1960s. Studies have focused mainly on the radical politics of the period but tended to downplay the extent to which much of the intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. This present collection, Canadian Countercultures and the Environment, makes an important contribution to a number of fields. As most of the papers deal with the 1970s and 1980s, they will add to our knowledge of this understudied period. Furthermore, the phenomenon of the counterculture has been the subject of very little academic focus to date. Most importantly, this collection will contribute a sustained analysis of the beginning of key environment debates in the 1970s and 1980s. Papers examine a range of issues related to broad environmental concerns, topics which emerged as key concerns in the context of Cold War military investments and experiments, the oil crisis of the 1970s, debates over gendered roles, and the increasing attention to urban pollution and pesticide use. No other publication dealing with this time period covers the range of environmental topics (activism, midwifery, organic farming, recycling, urban cycling, and communal living) included in this collection. Geographically, this collection covers a range of case studies from the Yukon to Atlantic Canada--it includes two urban examples, and, not surprisingly, places a good deal of emphasis on activities in British Columbia. From the most cursory glance at the history of those who moved "back-to-the-land," it is clear that they engaged with environmental issues in ways that have had a long-term impact on Canadian society.


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Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
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ISBN: 1469628538 9781469628530 1469628511 146963001X 9781469630014 9781469628516 146962852X 9798890877949 Year: 2016 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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"... exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship erupted under even the most oppressive political conditions"--

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Totalitarianism and literature. --- Totalitarianism and art --- Counterculture --- Art and totalitarianism --- Art --- Counter culture --- Countercultures --- Culture --- Hippies --- Subculture --- Literature and totalitarianism --- History --- Brazil --- al-Barāzīl --- Barāzīl --- Brasil --- Brasile --- Brasilia --- Brasilië --- Brasilien --- Brazili --- Brazili Federativlă Respubliki --- Brazilia --- Brazilië --- Brazilii︠a︡ --- Brazilii︠a︡ Federativ Respublikaḣy --- Braziliya --- Braziliya Federativ Respublikası --- Brazilská federativní republika --- Brazylia --- Brésil --- Burajiru --- Federale Republiek van Brasilië --- Federative Republic of Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazilii︠a︡ --- Federat︠s︡iėm Respublikė Brazil --- Fedėratyŭnai︠a︡ Rėspublika Brazilii︠a︡ --- Gweriniaeth Ffederal Brasil --- Pa-hsi --- Pa-se --- Pa-se Liân-pang Kiōng-hô-kok --- Pederatibong Republika sa Brasil --- Pindorama --- República Federal del Brasil --- Republica Federale di u Brasile --- Republica Federativa del Brazil --- República Federativa do Brasil --- Rèpublica fèdèrativa du Brèsil --- Republik Kevreel Brazil --- République fédérative du Brésil --- Tantasqa Republika Wrasil --- Tetã Pindorama --- Wrasil --- Федэратыўная Рэспубліка Бразілія --- Федеративна република Бразилия --- Федерациэм Республикэ Бразил --- Бразил --- Бразили --- Бразили Федеративлă Республики --- Бразилия --- Бразилия Федератив Республикаhы --- Бразілія --- البرازيل --- برازيل --- ブラジル --- Civilization --- Social conditions


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De la Lebensreform à l'altermondialisme : métamorphoses de l'alternativité ?
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ISSN: 2679375X ISBN: 9782868209528 2868209521 Year: 2016 Publisher: Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg,

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La poussée alternative qui s'exprime avec force autour de 1900 dans le cadre des mouvements de la réforme de la vie (Lebensreform) est marquée par la recherche d'une adéquation de l'homme à son environnement et s'affirme comme réforme de soi (Selbstreform) au sein d'une communauté repensée, notamment sur le plan économique. Elle visait ainsi à ouvrir une "troisième voie", transcendant à la fois le système capitaliste et le modèle socialiste, oscillant entre "capitalisme utopique" et "social-libéralisme".L'écho de ce "grand recommencement" auquel aspiraient les réformateurs de la vie semble avoir résonné durablement au sein du paysage protestataire qui cherche aujourd'hui encore à "défaire le développement pour refaire le monde" (slogan du Forum social de Porto Alegre, 2002). L'altermondialisme qui émerge autour de 2000 et que l'on peut saisir comme désir utopique d'un autre monde et de facto d'une "autre mondialisation" ne fait pas exception.Ce type de mobilisation dont le déploiement se jouerait des frontières peut être saisi comme la riposte d'une société civile transnationale à la globalisation marchande. Si "plus de liens, moins de biens" doit contribuer à une réévaluation tant de l'individu que de son environnement naturel, social et économique, l'altermondialisme se situe effectivement dans le sillage des idéaux issus de la Lebensreform.Cet ouvrage collectif propose d'aborder les deux mouvements "en résonance", malgré le contexte fort différent qui en a vu l'émergence et le changement d'échelle impliqué.

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Alternative lifestyles --- Counterculture --- Anti-globalization movement --- Social movements --- Communal living --- Social reformers --- Social problems --- Reform, Social --- Social reform --- Social welfare --- Social history --- Applied sociology --- Reformers --- Communal settlements --- Communes --- Cooperative living --- Collective settlements --- Housing, Cooperative --- Movements, Social --- Social psychology --- Alter-globalist movement --- Alternative globalization movement --- Anti-capitalist movement --- Anti-corporate movement --- Anticorporate movement --- Antiglobalization movement --- Fair trade movement --- Global justice movement --- Protest movements --- Globalization --- Counter culture --- Countercultures --- Culture --- Hippies --- Subculture --- Alternate lifestyles --- Lifestyles --- History --- Germany --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- Gėrman --- German Uls --- Герман Улс --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Social conditions --- Mouvements antimondialisation. --- Modes de vie alternatifs. --- Mode de vie durable. --- Société civile --- Pensée politique et sociale


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Writing the revolution : the construction of "1968" in Germany
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ISBN: 9781571139542 1571139540 1640140719 1782048294 Year: 2016 Publisher: Rochester, NY : Camden House,

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In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radical re-imagination of the political and economic order and social hierarchy - have been understood as requiring a "long march." While the movement has been judged at best a"successful failure," cultural elites continue to engage in the construction of 1968. Ingo Cornils's book argues that writing about 1968 in Germany is no longer about the historical events or the specific objectives of a bygone counterculture, but is instead a moral touchstone, a marker of social group identity meant to keep alive (or at bay) a utopian agenda that continues to fire the imagination. The book demonstrates that the representation of 1968 as a "foundational myth" suits the needs of a number of surprisingly heterogeneous groups, and that even attempts to deconstruct the myth strengthen it. Cornils brings together for the first time the historical, literary, and media representations of the movement, showing the motivation behind and effect of almost five decades of writing about 1968. In so doing, Cornils challenges the way 1968 has been instrumentalized: as a powerful imaginary that has colonized every aspect of life in Germany, and as symbolic capital in cultural and political debates.

Ingo Cornils is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.

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Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D. --- Protest movements --- Opposition (Political science) --- Authoritarianism --- Counterculture --- Popular culture --- Student movements --- Mil neuf cent soixante-huit --- Contestation --- Opposition (Science politique) --- Autoritarisme --- Contre-culture --- Culture populaire --- Mouvements étudiants --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Germany (West) --- Allemagne (Ouest) --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Historiography. --- Political science --- Authority --- Activism, Student --- Campus disorders --- Student activism --- Student protest --- Student unrest --- Youth movements --- Student protesters --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Social movements --- 1968 A.D. --- Nineteen hundred sixty-eight, A.D. --- Year nineteen sixty-eight, A.D. --- Nineteen sixties --- Counter culture --- Countercultures --- Hippies --- Subculture --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Germany (Federal Republic, 1949- ) --- GFR --- West Germany (1949-1990) --- Germanskai︠a︡ Federalʹnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Ḥukūmat Almānyā al-Ittiḥādīyah --- NRF --- Niemiecka Republika Federalna --- FRG --- Federativnai︠a︡ Respublika Germanii --- NSR --- Nĕmecká spolková republika --- Német Szövetségi Köztársaság --- BRD --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Republiḳah ha-federalit ha-Germanit --- Batı Almanya --- Federal Almanya --- Tyske forbundsrepublik --- NSzK --- Repubblica federale tedesca --- Hsi-te cheng fu --- Te-i-chih lien pang kung ho kuo --- RFA --- République fédérale allemande --- RFN --- Republika Federalna Niemiec --- Republik Federasi Jerman --- Germany (Federal Republic) --- G.F.R. --- N.R.F. --- F.R.G. --- N.S.R. --- B.R.D. --- N.Sz.K. --- R.F.A. --- R.F.N. --- Alemania Federal --- République fédérale d'Allemagne --- República Federal de Alemania --- Bondsrepubliek Duitsland --- Repubblica federale di Germania --- German Federal Republic --- Western Germany --- Germany --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (East) --- 1968. --- Berlin Wall. --- Cold War. --- East and West Germany. --- German guilt. --- Soviet Union. --- capitalism. --- communism. --- ideological conflict. --- liberalization. --- myth of 1968. --- political ideology. --- war in the 1960s. --- world war II.

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