The tumultuous 1960s saw a generation of Latin American youth enter into political life in unprecedented numbers. Though some have argued that these young-radical movements were inspired by the culture and politics of social movements burgeoning in Europe and the United States, youth activism developed its own distinct form in Latin America. In this book, Vania Markarian explores how the Uruguayan student movement of 1968 shaped leftist politics in the country for decades to come. She considers how students invented their own new culture of radicalism to achieve revolutionary change in Uruguay and in Latin America as a whole. By exploring the intersection of activism, political violence, and youth culture, Uruguay, 1968 offers new insights about such subjects as the "New Left" and "Revolutionary Left" that are central to our historical understanding of the 1960s across the globe. "Uruguay, 1968 is a jewel of a book. With rigor and passion, Markarian reveals the creativity, vitality, and bravura of the Uruguayan left, which captured the world's imagination in the 1960s and holds strong in the global memory of that turbulent decade. She also shows how so many assumptions about the era's radicalism fail to describe the Uruguayan scene--for example, assumptions that the young and the old, or the militant and the communist left, rarely mixed. Markarian has given us a landmark study that forces us to rethink the histories of Uruguay, Latin America, and the global sixties."--Jeremy Varon, The New School
"This terrific book sheds new light on the student activists at the heart of Uruguay's 1968, which, as the author shows, was part of a broader global moment of youthful protest. Markarian moves beyond familiar myths to reconsider the ideas and practice of student politics alongside new currents of artistic expression, consumer culture, and sexuality that characterized the 1960s. Drawing on diverse sources, the author offers a creative and nuanced interpretation of a historical moment too often presented in black and white, and in so doing, she achieves a major advance in our understanding of Cold War Latin America."--Eduardo Elena, University of Miami

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	256
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	University of California Press
Fecha de Publicación	2016-11-15
Dimensiones	8.25" x 5.5" x 0.57" pulgadas
Serie	Violence in Latin American History
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Años 1960, Hispano, América Latina

Vania Markarian is Associate Professor at Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is the author of Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967-1984.