The French May

Contents

List of Acronyms

List of Archives

Introduction

1 Against the 68 Doxa

2 May (and June) 68 as Such

PART 1

The Dynamics of the Crisis

Introduction to Part 1

1 From Mobilization to (Nearly) Revolution

1 When Did It Start?

1.1 Indocile Students

1.2 The Essence of the Air Is Red

1.3 Radicalized Politics

2 Towards Desectorization

2.1 A Student Movement on Its Way

2.2 Trade Unions Solidarity

3 A Multisectoral Mobilization

3.1 The Central Place: The Sorbonne

3.2 An Uncontrolled Mobilization in Working Places

3.3 Pressurized Media

3.4 French Society Subjected to Fluidity

4 A Political and Social Crisis

4.1 Political Distress

4.2 Finding an Issue Despite Conflict and Competition

4.3 Violent Days

2 A Local May: The Lyon Case

1 Before the Crisis

1.1 University Explosion

1.2 Socio-economic Situation

1.3 Political Context

2 The 68 Events in Lyon

2.1 The Student Dynamics

2.2 Strikes and Occupations

3 The Slow Decline

4 A Difficult Return to Normal

4.1 Transformations and Tensions on the Left

4.2 Students' Identity Crisis

3 Contentious Encounters: Challengers and Police Interacting in the Street

1 The Organization of Policing

1.1 A Specialized Device

1.2 A Legacy of Practical Experiences

2 The Dynamics of Confrontation

2.1 A Readjustment of Police Anticipations (May 3-10)

2.2 A Temporary Desertion of the Street (13 May-22 May)

2.3 Radicalization (May 22-June 12)

3 Assessments and Redefinitions

3.1 Clearing Up the Violence

3.2 Redefining Policing

PART 2

Whatever Happened to the Sixty-Eighters?

Introduction to Part 2

4 The Genesis of a Rebellious Youth

1 The Embodiment of a Rebellious Mood

1.1 An Interest in Politics Shaped by Family

1.2 Confronting the Social World

2 Institutional Critique

2.1 A New Access to Education

2.2 Revolution Within the Catholic Church

3 University Newcomers

3.1 Anguished by Diploma?

3.2 Students and Their Studies

5 Converting Militancy into Education

1 An Uncertain Educational Career

2 Activist and/or Teacher

3 The Pedagogical Conversion of Activism

6 Five Portraits

1 Pradial Subirats: From University to Jail to University

2 Bernard Bolze: A Career against Authoritarian Institutions

3 Marie-Claude Forestier: Catholic Radicalization

4 Véronique Dutoit: From Politics to Culture

5 André Carvalho: Culture in the Margins

PART 3

The Diffusion of a Rebellious Mood

Introduction to Part 3

7 The Formation of a Space of Social Movements

1 The Rebellious Seventies

1.1 The Apogee of Workers' Combativeness

1.2 Migrants' Struggles

1.3 The Revolution of Privacy

1.4 Territories and Environments

1.5 Challenging Authority

2 Entangled Social Movements

2.1 Old and New Social Movements

2.2 Protest Shaped by Politics

2.3 When Capitalism Endorses Its Critique

2.4 An Evolutive Autonomy Towards Politics

8 Sixty-Eighters and (Counter) Culture

1 The Golden Age of Counterculture?

2 Stormed Art Worlds

3 The Countercultural Turn

3.1 Revolutionized Songs

3.2 The Diffusion of Critical Thinking

4 Changing One's World

9 The French Protest Within Its International Context

1 A Contrasted Transnationalization

1.1 Openness to the Outside

1.2 A Few Transnational Activists

1.2.1 Daniel Cohn-Bendit

1.2.2 Alain Krivine

1.2.3 Christine Delphy

1.2.4 Tariq Ali

2 Interdependent Revolts

2.1 Students of the World, Unite?

2.2 Brokerage

2.3 Repertoires

2.4 State Response

3 A Comparison between Three Different Cases

3.1 A Mobilization Faced with Lethal Violence: The Mexican Case

3.2 An Insurrection against Military Dictatorship: The Argentinian Cordobazo

3.3 Results

Conclusion

References

Index