La vague nationale des années 1968
Une comparaison internationale
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2020
- Subjects
- Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9782760331464
- Publish Date
- Aug 2020
- List Price
- $29.99
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Description
The "Long '68" period is characterized by a potent re-emergence of minority nationalisms, protest regionalisms, and Indigenous ambitions in the West,from Brittany to Québec, passing through Catalonia,Wales, Australia, and New Zealand.
This book reviews some of the most representative cases as well as lesser-known examples, attending to the chronology, causes and consequences of this period’s nationalist renewal. This collection of essays is the first to propose a global and comparative view of this “national wave” in an attempt to understand the simultaneousness of these movements .
Several hypotheses are put forward. The profound sociocultural changes caused by the socioeconomic “Golden age” of the 1950s and 1960s forced social groups and individuals to call into question their worldview, as the culture they inherited grew increasingly distant from reality. Moreover, the internal influence of the decolonizing and anti-imperialist struggles weakened the nation-state and offered regionalist militants a new discursive repertoire. Finally, the social struggles of the New Left and the generalised spirit of protest of the 1960s-70s –which reached their zenith in 1968 – had a cognitive impact that paved the way to an ideological transformation unlike any seen before.
This book offers a historiographic analysis of the “Long 1968” period in its many dimensions (political, socioeconomic, cultural) as well as a theoretical and sociological reflection on the dynamics and shades of its nationalist and regionalist claims. It is the first comparative study of international scope to shed light on the simultaneous re-emergence of claims of a nationalist nature among minorities in this decade of protest and utopia.
Published in French.
About the authors
Tudi Kernalegenn est chercheur en science politique à l’UC Louvain (Belgique), lauréat d’une bourse Marie Sklodowska-Curie. Ses travaux portent sur les territoires du politique, les nationalismes et les migrations. Il a récemment dirigé avec Romain Pasquier 30 ans de démocratie régionale. Des régions pour quoi faire? (Berger-Levrault, 2018) et L’Union démocratique bretonne. Un parti autonomiste dans un État unitaire (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014).
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Joel Belliveau est professeur agrégé au Département d’histoire de l’Université Laurentienne (Ontario). Il s’intéresse à la circulation et à la production d’idées au sein des minorités nationales en Amérique du Nord. Il a publié des articles scientifiques portant sur l’Acadie, le Québec, l’Ontario français et la Catalogne, ainsi qu’une monographie intitulée Le «?moment 1968?» et la réinvention de l’Acadie (Ottawa, Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2014).
Jean-Olivier Roy est chargé de cours en science politique à l’Université Laval et à l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les thématiques autochtones, le postcolonialisme, le nationalisme, les identités ainsi que les enjeux de citoyenneté et de démocratie.
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Richard Hill is a curator, critic and art historian of Cree heritage. He holds a PhD from Middlesex University, London; a BA from York University, Toronto; and an AOCA Diploma from the Ontario College of Art, Toronto. Dr. Hill's areas of interest and expertise include historical and contemporary art created by Indigenous North American artists. While Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Hill oversaw the museum's first substantial effort to include North American Aboriginal art and ideas in permanent collection galleries. He curated Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure (2004), Art Gallery of Ontario; and co-curated, with Jimmie Durham, The American West (2005), at Compton Verney, Warwickshire. Hill's essays on art have appeared in numerous books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals. He has a long association with FUSE magazine, where he has been a contributing editor as well as a member of the board and editorial committee.
Nathalie Kermoal is of Breton descent (a people whose territory is situated on the West coast of France). She is a professor as well as the Associate Dean Academic at the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a bilingual specialist (French and English) in Canadian history and more specifically in Métis history.
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Excerpt: La vague nationale des années 1968: Une comparaison internationale (edited by Tudi Kernalegenn, Joel Belliveau & Jean-Olivier Roy; contributions by Maria Ackrén, Thierry Dominici, Gary Foley, Andrea Geniola, Clause Hauser, Richard Hill, Edina Howell, Nathalie Kermoal, Gilles Leydier, Yan Lespoux, Philippe Martel, Carlo Pala, Daniel Poitras & Xosé M. Nuñez Seixas)
La métaphore de la « vague nationale » et la chronologie des années 1968 s’appliquent en effet aussi bien aux Maori qu’aux Québécois, aux Inuits du Groenland qu’aux Catalans. Et ce n’est pas la moindre ambition de ce livre que d’essayer de comprendre cette simultanéité. La métaphore de la vague nationale a pour objectif de mettre en valeur l’idée que les années 1968 correspondent à une période de fort dynamisme, de progression généralisée des revendications identitaires. Mais l’idée est aussi de souligner que les revendications nationales fonctionnement de manière cyclique, sous forme de flux et reflux.