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TAYLOR, J. D. "THE PARTY'S OVER? THE ANGRY BRIGADE, THE COUNTERCULTURE, AND THE BRITISH NEW LEFT, 1967–1972." Historical Journal 58, no. 3 (2015): 877–900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x14000612.
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ABSTRACTThis article analyses the emergence of politically motivated acts of left-wing terrorism in Britain between 1967 and 1972. Through the case of the ‘Angry Brigade’, an ill-defined grouping which claimed responsibility for a number of attacks against property between 1970 and 1971, it analyses how protest and political violence emerged from discourses and events in the British New Left, the anti-war protest movements, the counterculture, and the underground press. Against common interpretations of ’68 as a watershed of naïve hopes that waned into inaction, this article identifies a consistency of political activity that developed beyond traditional party and class politics towards a more internationally aware and diverse network of struggles for civil equality. Among the shared political and cultural commitments of the counterculture, campaigns around squatting, women's liberation, or the necessity of ‘armed propaganda’ each became possible and at times overlapped. It analyses the group's development, actions, communications, as well as surrounding media discourses, subsequent police investigation, and the criminal trials of ten individuals for their involvement in the Angry Brigade. The article reappraises their overlooked historical significance among the wider countercultural militancy and discourses of political violence of the late 1960s to early 1970s.
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Azarova, Valentina, Amanda Ghahremani, Ashley Jordana, Alexandra Lily Kather, and Lisa-Marie Rudi. "Towards a Counterculture of International Justice." Journal of International Criminal Justice 22, no. 2 (2024): 403–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqae032.
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Abstract Coloniality and Eurocentrism are entrenched in the field of international justice, reproducing a harmful dominant culture within international justice non-governmental organizations (‘IJ NGOs’) that influences how practitioners behave, interact with each other, and respond to violence and harm. The article argues that this dominant culture prioritizes punitive approaches to violence over more life-affirming forms of justice and accountability that centre healing and community. Drawing on experiences and conceptual frameworks illustrating dominant oppressive global systems and corresponding social behaviours, the authors critically examine the harms caused by the dominant culture that prevents authentic engagement with a community-led vision of systemic justice that seeks to transform the systems of oppression at the root of violence. Writing from the vantage point of their collective process of co-learning and reorientation and drawing on critical and feminist thought and praxes — including embodiment, abolition, and transformative justice — the authors offer potential ideas and practices that could contribute towards a counterculture in international justice. The article provides initial reflections on a practical framework that could reorient international justice communities of practice towards life-affirming and transformative approaches to justice that centre community-building, collective care, and solidarity.
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Bracey, Dorothy H. "Book Review: Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture." International Criminal Justice Review 2, no. 1 (1992): 149–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105756779200200118.
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Shipley, Morgan, and Jack Taylor. "Life as Eutopia: MOVE's Natural Revolution as a Response to America's Dystopian Reality." Utopian Studies 30, no. 1 (2019): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.30.1.25.
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ABSTRACT Drawing from a 2015 interview with Ramona Africa, one of only two surviving members of the MOVE Organization following its 1985 bombing by the Philadelphia police department, this article critically explores the spiritual teachings of John Africa, specifically as they relate to black liberation and a back-to-nature religiosity that sought, in the midst of urban chaos, eutopia through a praxis of absolute responsibility. By focusing on the movement and not a single (albeit tragic) event, such an approach situates the significance of a social justice mentality that sought a middle way between the 1960s Black Power movement and hippie counterculture. More than the dystopian critique highlighted in historical literature, MOVE should be seen as a dialectical and spiritual by-product of the violence associated with modern America, the divisiveness of countercultural activism it inspired, and the need for a utopian vision more respective of and more responsive to the earth and each other.
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ZAMFIRESCU, ANDREI-CĂLIN. "Violence, Innocence and Redemption in Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos." American, British and Canadian Studies 37, no. 1 (2021): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2021-0018.
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Abstract Scottish author Irvine Welsh has crafted an internally cohesive cosmology, grounded in mapping a somewhat loosely defined “chemical generation” that helped spearhead a personal brand of anti-Thatcherite counterculture (with an especially heavy focus on the marginalized, disgruntled and boisterous youths of Edinburgh). Examining some of the writer’s most recent and lesser-known works, my essay will argue that a series of archaic mythical patterns, symbols and cosmological coordinates can be shown to guide a large number of the axioms that Welsh employs to refine his own vision of a modern, emergent mythos.
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Cochran, David. "Violence, Feminism, and the Counterculture in Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 24, no. 3-4 (1994): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/flm.1994.a395811.
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Pusparini, Dewi. "Free Will and Counterculture Movement in Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 1, no. 4 (2018): 475–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5763.
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This research explores the relation between the aspect of free will in the novel A Clockwork Orange to the social and cultural phenomena in the era of counterculture movement. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the structural elements of the novel and relate them to the supporting data from external references. The objectives of the research which are presented as follows: 1) to describe the way the importance of free will affect the characters’ behavior in A Clockwork Orange, and 2) to reveal the way the importance of free will in this novel reflect the social condition during the era of counterculture movement. The writer also applies the genetic structuralism approach to focus the analysis on the element of free will and the way it relates to the elements of counterculture. The result of this research shows that there are several structural relations that connect both the aspect of free will in the novel and those in the era of counter-culture movement which consist of youth subculture, resistance against the state, and police brutality. The implication of this research is to promote the improvement of youth’s behavior and social awareness by the implementation of free will and safe environment, not by force or violence.
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Stankov, Lazar, Goran Knežević, Gerard Saucier, Borislav Radović, and Biljana Milovanović. "Militant Extremist Mindset and the Assessment of Radicalization in the General Population." Journal of Individual Differences 39, no. 2 (2018): 88–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000253.
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Abstract. This paper presents new data and reviews the available evidence pointing to the existence of three main ingredients of militant extremist mindset (MEM). Three different methods of item development identified factors that we have labeled Nastiness, Grudge, and Excuse. In other words, there are in our midst nasty people who are more prepared than others to accept, approve, or even advocate the use of violence. When such people feel a grudge, in that they see somebody as threatening to themselves (or to members of the group they belong to) or think that the world is not a hospitable place in which to live, they may resort to violence. This violence is often accompanied by an excuse or justification that refers to a higher authority or a “noble” principle such as religiosity or utopianism. Although all three ingredients may be open to intervention, Grudge might be the most amenable. Social policies related to immigration and procedures for dealing with protest counterculture may be effective in reducing MEM. The most important, however, is the need to espouse principles of diversity and tolerance.
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CASIS. "A Brief History of Social Movements in North America." Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 2, no. 1 (2019): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/jicw.v2i1.958.
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 The purpose of this analysis is to differentiate social movements. In this instance, we will be using the hippie/counterculture movements during the 1960s and 1970s in Canada, and those that are occurring in the second decade of the twenty-first century. In particular, this analysis distinguishes right-wing extremist movements in 2016 from groups like the Hippie Movement and the Black Panther Party Movement. Specific reference will be made to contrast the social movements of the twenty-first century that are non-political in nature but are identity-based, versus movements during the 60s and 70s that were political by design and intent. Due to the non-political nature of twenty-first century Violent Transnational Social Movements, they might be characterized as fifth generation warfare, which we identify as identity-based social movements in violent conflict with other identity based social movements, this violence may be soft or hard. ‘Soft violence damages the fabric of relationships between communities as entrenches or highlights the superiority of one group over another without kinetic impact. Soft violence is harmful activities to others which stops short of physical violence’. (Kelshall, 2019) Hard violence is then recognized as when soft violence tactics result in physical violence. Insurgencies are groups that challenge and/or resist the authority of the state. There are different levels of insurgencies; and on the extreme end, there is the resistance of systemic authority.
 
 
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D'Amico, Marzia. "Lucia Marcucci: Visual Poetry Against Social Violence." Vista, no. 10 (December 13, 2022): e022013. http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/vista.4424.
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The article offers an original close reading of some of Marcucci's most famous works between the early 60s and late 70s, chosen as examples of a situated gendered specificity of the artist's poetics. Despite the self-declared distance from neo-feminist stances, Marcucci shines for originality and controversy in the themes and practices of creation in her contemporary landscape, mostly dominated by male artists. On the one hand, we observe Marcucci’s artistic and cultural operation in Italy amid an economic boom but still suffered from the retrograde nature of the still deviously dominant fascist thinking, in conjunction with the bigotry of the catholic church, concerning women’s emancipation. On the other hand, we also observe Marcucci’s productive singularity in the context of her contemporary counterculture, which had not freed itself at all — although preaching it — from sexist power dynamics. The article aims to present a feminist lens (from male gaze to self-objectification) not as the absolute and only way of interpreting Marcucci’s verbal-visual poems, but as useful in highlighting the specific qualities of Marcucci’s research and poetics. Through the analysis of “Il Fidanzato in Fuga” (The Runaway Bride; 1964), “Noxin” (1970), “AH!” (1972), “Aa Bb Cc” (1977), and “Culturae” (1978), an attempt will be made to offer a viable course of inquiry that does not isolate Marcucci’s work from that of her male contemporaries but considers its situated specificity as a necessary stand.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Counterculture of violence"
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Meier, Corinne. "Ontstaan en ontwikkeling van sub- en kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge in Suid-Afrika vanuit 'n opvoedkundige perspektief." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18468.
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Summaries in English and Afrikaans<br>In elke samelewing kan die jeug as 'n opsigselfstaande groep geldentifiseer word. Die unieke eienskappe van die jeugfase lei tot die ontstaan· van konstruktiewe of subkulturele
jeuggroeperinge en destruktiewe of kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge. Sub- en kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge oefen 'n direkte invloed op die onderwys en opvoeding van die jeug uit. 'n Ondersoek na die faktore wat aanleiding gee tot die ontstaan en ontwikkeling van sub- en kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge is in die lig daarvan van dwingende belang. 'n Analise van die stambegrippe kultuur, subkultuur en kontrakultuur is 'n voorvereiste vir die begryp en verstaan van die tema ter sprake. Kultuur is die somtotaal van menslike betrokkenheid in sy materiele en nie-materiele wereld. Hierdie betrokkenheid lei tot kultuurvorming. Die vorming, oordrag en verandering van kultuur bet 'n bepaalde gesindheidsverandering by individue tot gevolg. Die nie-konfonnering met kultuurverandering het die fonnulering van 'n altematiewe of subkulturele stel waardes en nonne tot gevolg. 'n Subkultuur kan beskryf word as enige segment van die dominante kultuur waarvan die waarde en normstruktuur van die dominante kultuur verskil, maar nie in konflik daarmee is nie. Die algehele afwysing of pogings tot die omverwerp van dominante waardes en nonne het kontrakulturele waardes en norme tot gevolg. Sub- en kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge is eiesoortig van aard. Subkulturele jeuggroeperinge
funksioneer met gemak in die dominante kultuur. Kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge word deur die dominante kultuur as 'n bedreiging beskou. Die faktore wat tot die ontstaan en ontwikkeling van sub- en kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge in Suid-Afrika aanleiding gee, kan kortliks saamgevat word as: politieke omstandighede, ideologiese invloede, ekonomiese, demografiese, sosiale (waaronder 'n gedepriveerde sosiale omgewing en
huislike faktore, gesinsgrootte, enkelouergesinne, gesagskrisis, generasiekonflik en religieuse faktore), kulturele vervreemding en onderwyskundige faktore.
Kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge wat op geweld uitloop, bet 'n destruktiewe invloed op die fisiese en psigiese omgewing van die skool, die medeleerlinge, die gesagsdraers en die leeromgewing. Desnieteenstaande staan die skool in 'n ideate posisie ten opsigte van die identifisering, rehabilitering en akkommodering van kontrakulturele jeuggroeperinge en die onderrig van lewensvaardighede waardeur anti-normatiewe gedrag afgewys kan word.<br>In every society the youth can be identified as a separate group. The unique characteristics of the youth phase results in constructive or subcultural youth groupings, as well as destructive or countercultural youth groupings. Sub- and countercultural groupings exert a direct influence on the instruction and education of the youth. An investigation of the factors giving rise to the development of sub- and countercultural youth groupings is therefore imperative. An analysis of the key concepts of culture, subculture and counterculture is a prerequisite for the comprehension of the theme at issue. Culture is the sum total of people's involvement in their
material and nonmaterial world. This involvement generates culture. Culture, and the forming, transmission and change of culture results in a change of mindset in individuals. Nonconformity with cultural change results in the formulation of an alternative or subcultural set of values and norms. A subculture can be defined as any segment of the dominant culture that subscribes to a set of values and norms that differ from, but are not in conflict with, those of the dominant culture. Complete rejection of, or attempts to overthrow dominant values and norms result in the formation of countercultural values and norms. Sub- and countercultural youth groupings are unique. Subcultural youth groupings function with ease in the context of the dominant culture. Countercultural youth groupings are perceived as a threat by the dominant culture. The factors leading to the origin and development of sub- and countercultural youth groupings in South Africa can be briefly summarised as: political circumstances, ideological influences, economic, demographic and social influences (including a deprived social environment and domestic factors, family size, single-parent families, authority crises, generation conflict and religious factors), cultural alienation and educational factors. Countercultural youth groupings that resort to violence have a destructive influence on the physical and psychic school environment, on fellow pupils, on office-bearers and on the learning environment. Despite all this, however, the school is ideally placed to identify, rehabilitate and accommodate countercultural youth groupings and to provide instruction in life skills with a view to expelling antinormative behaviour.<br>Educational Studies<br>D. Ed. (Historiese Opvoedkunde)
Books on the topic "Counterculture of violence"
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Neaman, Lipman Jonathan, Harrell Stevan, and Association for Asian Studies, eds. Violence in China: Essays in culture and counterculture. State University of New York Press, 1990.
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Willis, Jim. Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400637032.
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This book looks at daily life during a pivotal decade in American history: the 1960s. It covers the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement as well as counterculture and protest movements. The 1960s saw the assassination of a popular president; a confusing and unpopular war that claimed the lives of thousands of American combatants; the passage of a national civil rights act that mandated equal rights across all races; countless violent exchanges among Americans with polarized views on the Vietnam War and civil rights; and through it all, the rise of a counterculture movement that challenged long-established American social and cultural traditions. Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture looks at the 1960s from the perspective of Americans who, despite their best efforts to live normal lives, could not escape the tension, conflict, and controversy that surrounded them. The war and the violence associated with protests of it came at great personal cost to many American families. This book looks those social and cultural changes, examining such topics as the sexual revolution; recreational drug culture; the roles of film, television, and music; and more.
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Lipman, Jonathan N. Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture (Suny Series in Chinese Local Studies). State University of New York Press, 1990.
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Problemy protivodeĭstvii︠a︡ molodezhnomu ėkstremizmu: Materialy kruglogo stola (21 dekabri︠a︡ 2006 g.) i nauchno-prakticheskogo seminara (23 marta 2007 g.). VNII MVD Rossii, 2007.
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Lipman, Jonathan N. Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture (S U N Y Series in Chinese Local Studies). State University of New York Press, 1990.
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Safran, Joshua. Free Spirit: Growing up on the Road and off the Grid. Hachette Books, 2013.
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Winlow, Simon, and Steve Hall. Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture. Berg Publishers, 2006.
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Hall, John R. Religion and Violence from a Sociological Perspective. Edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199759996.013.0025.
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This chapter investigates the circumstances of violence in a way that identifies alternative “domains” in which religious concatenations of violence arise. Despite the fluidity of empirical trajectories and theoretical transitions among analytic types, diverse situations are not so idiosyncratically historicist as to prevent theorization of alternative patterns. Religious communities “contained” by a state may raise countercultural ideologies. The structural circumstances of violence have been modified by apocalyptic war. In social processes, the link of religion to political power differentiates a variety of hegemonic and counterhegemonic conditions in which religion and violence become concatenated. Theorizing relationships between religion and violence should not be an exercise in differentiating “ideal” and “material” causes but rather an effort to understand their complex interplay in social processes.
Book chapters on the topic "Counterculture of violence"
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Lööw, Heléne. "The Cult of Violence: The Swedish Racist Counterculture." In Racist Violence in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23034-1_5.
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Patteson, Joseph. "Loaded and Exploded: Countercultural Travel and Its Colonial Shadow." In Drugs, Violence and Latin America. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68924-7_3.
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Christiansen, Samantha M. R. "Chapter 3 “The Brigade Is Everywhere” Violence and Spectacle in the British Counterculture." In Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780857450791-006.
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Cooper, Ian. "The Influence of the Film." In Witchfinder General. Liverpool University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906733513.003.0005.
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This chapter highlights the influence of Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General (1968). The element of Witchfinder General that attracted the most comment upon its initial release was the violence, specifically the graphic scenes of torture. Indeed, the film was one of the first of the violent films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The nihilism of Witchfinder General not only appears prescient today, anticipating the death of the 1960s counterculture dream and the savagery of the 1970s, but has also proven remarkably influential; British horror would get much nastier in the following decade. However, although the thematic and stylistic concerns of Witchfinder General would continue to resonate through the genre for decades to come, the ‘witch-craze’ cycle it inspired proved less durable. Ultimately, what is striking is the unusual way Witchfinder General melds two divergent traditions: the ‘respectable, highbrow’ heritage film and the ‘disreputable, lowbrow’ horror film.
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"Black Panther Party: “What We Want, What We Believe”." In Schlager Anthology of Black America. Schlager Group Inc., 2021. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306627.book-part-213.
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Formed in the San Francisco Bay Area by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was originally constituted with the avowed purpose of protecting African American neighborhoods from police violence. The Panthers spread throughout the country and had a membership of 10,000 at their peak in 1969. Their newspaper, edited by Eldridge Cleaver, had a circulation of 250,000, and the Panthers were an internationally recognized part of the Black Power movement and the counterculture. The organization was Marxist- socialist and originally espoused Black Nationalism but moved away from this position and became more focused on socialism without regard to race.
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Barr-Melej, Patrick. "A Bad Moon on the Rise?" In Psychedelic Chile. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632575.003.0003.
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An amalgam of circumstances and phenomena, including intergenerational dissonance and the outright rebelliousness of many young people, the “youth question” of the 1960s and 1970s was a complex substantiation of a generation gap with period-specific ideational and behavioral qualities and transnational manifestations. In Chile, the period saw student movements, outbreaks of street violence, and widely shared consternation about perils threatening the nation’s social and cultural footings, with the era’s main combatants instrumentalizing the youth question to admonish rivals. This chapter situates the Chilean case in a transnational context marked by the political strife and youthful activism—especially that of 1968— to provide substrate for the book’s examination of Chile’s counterculture and reactions to it.
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Bjornsen-Ramig, Abby L., and Daniel B. Kissinger. "Activism and College Student Mental Health." In Exploring the Technological, Societal, and Institutional Dimensions of College Student Activism. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7274-9.ch013.
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Activism on college campuses in the United States is a long-standing phenomenon rooted in the counterculture movements of the 1960s. Today, local, regional, and national issues and sociopolitical influences remain closely aligned with activism in higher education, with contemporary issues shaping student activism efforts on campus. College student activism ranges from organized marches and protests to more widespread social media campaigns, targeting issues ranging from inclusion and diversity to sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Involvement in activism can influence the mental health and overall wellness of college students who engage in these activities. This chapter focuses on contemporary activism in higher education, specifically as related to the potential impact of activism on the mental health and wellness of college student activists. Also discussed are implications for student affairs professionals, university-based mental health professionals, and higher education administrators.
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Bjornsen-Ramig, Abby L., and Daniel B. Kissinger. "Activism and College Student Mental Health." In Research Anthology on Mental Health Stigma, Education, and Treatment. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8544-3.ch037.
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Activism on college campuses in the United States is a long-standing phenomenon rooted in the counterculture movements of the 1960s. Today, local, regional, and national issues and sociopolitical influences remain closely aligned with activism in higher education, with contemporary issues shaping student activism efforts on campus. College student activism ranges from organized marches and protests to more widespread social media campaigns, targeting issues ranging from inclusion and diversity to sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Involvement in activism can influence the mental health and overall wellness of college students who engage in these activities. This chapter focuses on contemporary activism in higher education, specifically as related to the potential impact of activism on the mental health and wellness of college student activists. Also discussed are implications for student affairs professionals, university-based mental health professionals, and higher education administrators.
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Meglin, Joellen A. "Embodying “Lowlife” in High Art." In Ruth Page. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190205164.003.0009.
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A masterpiece of ballet Americana, Frankie and Johnny (1938) remains unique in the history of ballet because of its burlesque, irreverent attitude toward ballet; its frank incorporation of African American idioms; its feminist slant; and the richness of its collaborative process. Jerome Moross rooted the music in African American jazz by incorporating into the score a stomp, the blues, two rags, a foxtrot, and a one-step. Paul du Pont’s ingeniously functional set and flagrant costume designs lay the groundwork for choreographic invention within a demi-monde of barroom and bawdyhouse characters. Page and Bentley Stone’s choreography reveled in street characters, street culture, and street style. Its intermingling of jazz, tap, and modern dance idioms contested Frankie’s very framing as a ballet. Thematically, the characters embodied a “cool” counterculture—one that satirized the sanctimony of Main Street, white, reformist culture. Frankie rasped life on the margins, everyday violence, countercultural iconoclasm; its heroine was a popular-culture Venus thrashing about in high art. The collaborative, collective spirit that generated Frankie emerged in part from the Federal Theatre Project’s working-class ethos. At the same time, the “messy” process of co-creation resulted in certain ambiguities and tensions—and several conflicts about credit, royalties, and remuneration. This chapter parses the contributions and claims of the diverse collaborators to relay a sense of Page’s network of creativity. The argument is made that the work—a testament to her earthy, mixed-genre, ballet-burlesque aesthetics—germinated in her deep-seated aversion to conventionality and conformity.
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Taylor, J. D. "Not that serious?" In Waiting for the Revolution. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526113658.003.0003.
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The Angry Brigade claimed responsibility for ten high-profile bomb attacks against cabinet ministers, police, employers involved in industrial disputes, and other targets of a broadly anti-capitalist bent over 1970-71 in Britain, and were linked to a further fifteen. This chapter analyses their emergence from a milieu of wider left-wing political violence over the period, and assesses their activities and communiqués, the heavy-handed police investigation that follows, and the trial of the ‘Stoke Newington Eight’ over 1972, whose defence resulted in legal innovations and a significant support group. Drawing on archival research, interviews and historical analysis, it seeks to take the group seriously, often derided as Pythonesque or a suicidal diversion for an isolated minority on the Far Left. While emerging from overlapping networks in the counterculture and young British New Left, it argues that its choice of targets, its horizontal and diffuse organisation, and the crude police crackdown and prosecution forecasts some of the political weather of the far Left in Britain over the 1970s and beyond.