Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415926246 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 307 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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student activism should provoke interest in this book, but due to its academic subtitle and Boren's dry writing, it's not likely to find an audience beyond the campus. From Publishers Weekly Whether facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square or police gunfire at Kent State, student protestors are best known for isolated, symbolic gestures. Still, he's written a useful and much-needed resource on student protest. Most of the narrative reads like a simple time line of events, and Boren offers too little analysis or commentary. But student activism has often been a force for profound social and political transformation. Material on the 1960s will be familiar to many readers, but few are knowledgeable about the explosion of activism at Latin American universities in the early 20th century or the violence at Bangladeshi schools in the 1990s. Boren, who teaches English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, mentions the current anti
Student Resistance is an international history of student activism. Chronicling 500 years of strife between activists and the academy, Mark Edelman Boren unearths the defiant roots of the ivory tower.
Five Stars Received book as promised.. Student Resistence--Overview Extraordinary A Customer This is a very readable overview of the subjectone that many of the early boomers ought to read to understand where we were coming from and where we ended up (so far)it is complete, interesting and a fascinating analysiswell worth a few hours of your time. It will give you guidelines for f. Great! We're reading this in my honors political communication class. It reads like a novel with the information of a textbook. Great