2011/01/01 by K Mann · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #French Historical and Cultural Studies #European history and politics #Scholarship #Object (grammar) #History #Social history (medicine) #Media studies #Reflection (computer programming) #Sociology #Art history #Political science #Social science #Law #Linguistics #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1017/s0147547911000147
openalex publication_date 2011/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
May 1968 in France was one of those events that became instantly a distinct historical moment. Nearly contemporaneously with the events themselves, “May '68” became an object of conscious—and contentious—reflection, research, and analysis. By October 1968, the Bibliothèque nationale had already listed 124 books on the May–June events. The leading scholarly labor and social history journal in France, le mouvement social , immediately prepared a special issue on May 1968. Successive anniversaries have been marked with waves of scholarly and popular articles, books, films, interviews, colloquia, and other commemorative events and gatherings. The graphic depictions of May '68—photographic and other—have become enduring iconographic images that reappear with each anniversary.