Youth Movements: Travel, Protest, and Europe in 1968

Jobs shows how the events of 1968 marked a turning point in the emergence of an international social cohort based on age, one that professed not just nationalist but also internationalist and even Europeanist sensibilities. The youth of Europe sought out revolution where it could be had, and one of...

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Published in:The American historical review 2009-04, Vol.114 (2), p.376-404
Main Author: Jobs, Richard Ivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AHR Forum: The International 1968, Part II
Demonstrations & protests
European history
International borders
International relations
International travel
Internationalism
Nation states
New Left
Political protests
Political revolutions
Social conditions & trends
Solidarity
Travel
Youth culture
Youth movements
Youth participation
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Summary:Jobs shows how the events of 1968 marked a turning point in the emergence of an international social cohort based on age, one that professed not just nationalist but also internationalist and even Europeanist sensibilities. The youth of Europe sought out revolution where it could be had, and one of the changes they demanded was in the state frontier controls that inhibited their continent-wide mobility. Jobs recasts 1968 as a significant moment in the cultural history of European integration by showing how young people, by virtue of their travels, began to express themselves as citizens of Europe rather than a particular nation, and how they had come to identify with one another as a transnational cohort despite their distinct national backgrounds and identities. Migrating between protest sites, these young people saw themselves as part of a new European community, a vision that shaped their demand for a borderless Europe at the same time that statesmen furthered continental unity with the creation of the European community.
ISSN:0002-8762
1937-5239
DOI:10.1086/ahr.114.2.376