1st Edition
Activism, Identity, and Social Theory in the 1960s The Dawn of Life Politics
By Shaun Best
Copyright 2026
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Activism, Identity, and Social Theory in the 1960s examines the crucial connection between social analysis and everyday practice using a study of the transformative social movements of the 1960s. It demonstrates how personal experiences of discrimination can reflect broader mechanisms of social exclusion to reveal how the fusion of personal and political spheres created new forms of identity... Read more
Introduction: 1968, Life Politics, the People’s Will and Their Discontent
1 1968: When the Personal Became Political
2 May 1968
3 The New Left
4 Gender and Women’s Liberation
5 The Two Worlds of Race
6 Gay Liberation
7 Northern Ireland
8 Vietnam
Conclusion: The Legacy of 1968
Biography
Shaun Best recently retired from teaching at the University of Winchester, having previously taught at the University of Manchester and Nottingham Trent University. In addition to publishing widely on the work of Zygmunt Bauman, he also writes about issues in relation to identity, education, social inclusion, and social exclusion against the background of neoliberal policy and practice.
