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This book demonstrates that student movements have always been part of the political landscape and remain a significant and potent source of political change and renewal.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Politics, Participation and University Students' Action: Introductory Essay, Judith Bessant, Analicia Mejia Mesinas and Sarah Pickard
Chapter 2: Activation of Student Protest: Reaction, Repression and Memory at Nanterre University, Paris 1968-2018, Simon Ridley and Paolo Stuppi
Chapter 3: 'Different Struggles, the Same Fight'? A Comparative Analysis of Student Movements in Chile (2011), Quebec (2012), and Hong Kong (2014), Cécile Van de Velde
Chapter 4: 'We are the University!' Campus Protest in the Context of Counter-Globalisation Critique: The Amsterdam University Protests, 2015-2016, Christian Scholl and Annette Freyberg-Inan
Chapter 5: Fault Lines and Heterogeneity: Quebec's Student Movement During the Maple Spring of 2012, Nicole Gallant, Guillaume Tremblay-Boily, Guillaume Latzko-Toth and Madeleine Pastinelli
Chapter 6: Organizing Campus Alliances to Resist a Neoliberal Attack on Workers Conditions in Toronto, Canada, Alia Karim
Chapter 7: Student Protests Against Neoliberal Education Policies in Italy: Three Student Organisations, Lidia Lo Schiavo
Chapter 8: The Russian Student Protests of March 2017: Harsh Responses of the University Officials and the Authorities on the Demands for Social Change, Olga Lavrinenko
Chapter 9: 'Demanding What is Not Theirs to Demand': Rebellious Students in Post-Socialist Montenegro, Bojan Bäa
Chapter 10: When Students Protest and When They Don't: Challenging the Apathy Narrative in Australia, Nita Alexander, Aaron Ashley, Rebekah Lisciandro, Raechel Oleszek and Theresa Petray
Chapter 11: Student Mobilisations and Local Public Action: A French Case Study, Patricia Loncle
Chapter 12: From Squatting to Antimilitarism in Sardinia: A Student's Relational Agency Case-Study, Aide Esu
Chapter 13: Protest Practices: A Case Study of Students' Collective Action in Italy, Lorenzo Domaneschi
Chapter 14: Student Activism in Bologna: Old Fractures, Emerging Alliances, and the Use of Depoliticisation as a Repressive Strategy, Ilaria Pitti
Chapter 15: Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester, Brian Doherty and Clare Saunders
Chapter 16: A Social Imaginary for Collective Becoming: Occupy and the Nature of 'Real Participation', Perri Campbell, Peter Kelly and Luke Howie
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Edited by Judith Bessant; Analicia Mejia Mesinas and Sarah Pickard
Summary
This book demonstrates that student movements have always been part of the political landscape and remain a significant and potent source of political change and renewal.
