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Chapter 9 - ‘Student Power’

Vietnam at Trento

from Part III - Crisis of the University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2019

Ben Mercer
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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Chapter 9 describes the revolt at the University Institute of Social Sciences at Trento. It demonstrates the importance of protest about Vietnam in the first closure of the Institute. I argue that in the course of the revolt, the students discovered themselves as passive subjects of the university system and sought to reinvent themselves as active subjects via protest. In the third occupation at the Faculty of Sociology at Trento, they developed a charter of demands that sought to create structural spaces within the university and perpetuate the student movement without integrating it within the university. The protest movement successfully paralysed the Institute of Sociology without managing to impose itself, until the contestation spread to the Catholic Church in the Anti-Lent of 1968 which, although it culminated in the successful transformation of the institute, nonetheless left the protest movement with a question of what direction it should take.

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Student Revolt in 1968
France, Italy and West Germany
, pp. 206 - 229
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • ‘Student Power’
  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Student Revolt in 1968
  • Online publication: 18 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696111.010
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  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Student Revolt in 1968
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696111.010
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  • ‘Student Power’
  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Student Revolt in 1968
  • Online publication: 18 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696111.010
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