Papers presented at the conference: New world coming : the sixties and the shaping of global consciousness held at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., June 13-16, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the global sixties / Scott Rutherford ... [et al.] -- Revolution from de beat / Lillian Allen -- Whose 1960s? : gender, resistance, and liberation in Palestine / Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi -- Sarnia in the sixties (or The pecularities of the Canadians) / Ian McKay -- Moving into "the master's house" : the state-nation and Black power in the United States / Van Gosse -- "The Malcolm X doctrine" : the Republic of New Afrika and national liberation on U.S. soil / Dan Berger -- The Soviet Communist Party and 1968 : a case study / Kimmo Rentola -- Interpretations of Third World solidarity and contemporary German nationalism / Jennifer Ruth Hosek -- The Canadian national security war on queers and the left / Gary Kinsman -- Neo-fascism, the extraparliamentary left wing, and the birth of Italian terrorism / Guido Panvini -- Resisting the sixties : a Dutch reaction in a global perspective / Tity de Vries -- Transpacific revolutionaries : the creation of Latin American Maoism / Matthew Rothwell -- On digging it : correspondences between Dineh uranium miners and the health and safety program of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers / Julie Boddy -- Liberation support and anti-apartheid work as seeds of global consciousness : the birth of solidarity with Southern African struggles / John S. Saul -- Upon the long avenues of sadness : Otto René Castillo and transnational spaces of exile / Michael D. Kirkpatrick -- Cuban film and the burden of revolutionary representation / María Caridad Cumaná González -- The Japanese sixties : Kon Ichikawa's "Tokyo Olympiad" / Kyoko Sato -- Consuming and contesting "soul" in Tanzania / Andrew M. Ivaska -- Exhibiting a global blackness : the First World Festival of Negro Arts / Tobias Wofford -- Rock 'n' roll, politics, and society during the Italian economic boom / Marilisa Merolla -- Popular culture as a tool for change : rural working-class theatre in Sweden / Stefan Backius -- A "bubbling volcano" : Edinburgh, the festivals, and a cultural explosion / Angela Bartie -- Constructing pariah spaces : newspaper representations of slums, ghettos, and favelas in São Paulo and Chicago / Sean Purdy -- "No axe to grind in Africa" : violence, racial prejudice, and media depictions of the Canadian peacekeeping mission in the Congo, 1960-64 / Colin McCullough -- Trip to Hanoi : antiwar travel and international consciousness / Franny Nudelman -- Political graphics of the "long 1960s" / Lincoln Cushing -- 1968 : springboard for women's liberation / Sheila Rowbotham -- Group consciousness in Brazil : appropriation (1964-89) / Joana Maria Pedro -- Reframing the "whiteness" of U.S. feminism : the protest movement, radical feminism, and the abjection of whiteness / Amanda Third -- Cuban women and the time of transformation / Sonia Enjamio Expósito, Lourdes Pérez Montalvo, and Inés Rodríguez Pedroso -- Shamans of the spring : environmentalism and the new jeremiad / Michael Egan -- More dangerous than bombs or bullets : agent orange, dioxin, and the environmental imaginary / Edwin Martini -- Sex reassignment surgery in Ontario : adrift in a political and cultural climate / Kristin Ireland -- At the point of the lance : gender, development, and the Peace Corps / Molly Geidel -- Student politics in Mexico in the wake of the Cuban Revolution / Jaime Pensado -- "Women united against the war" : gender politics, feminism, and Vietnam draft-resistance in Canada / Lara Campbell -- The global imagination of 1968 : the New Left's unfulfilled promise / George Katsiaficas -- Red power legacies and lives : an interview by Scott Rutherford / Lee Maracle -- An embarrassment of omissions, or rewriting the sixties : the case of the Caribbean Conference Committee, Canada, and the global New Left / David Austin -- Mexico's rock counterculture (La Onda) in historical perspective and memory / Eric Zolov -- Continuing on : deepening the anti-nuclear movement since the sixties / Jim Harding -- "Tear it down" : reflections of a veteran / Jaime Veve -- Across the universe : rethinking narratives of second-wave feminism / Alice Echols -- Engaging the past and mapping the future : nuclear weapons and self-determination--from Diego Garcia and Cuba to Iraq and Iran / Cary Fraser -- Third World possibilities and problematics : historical connections and critical frameworks / Tina Mai Chen.
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